EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
1989 No. 234
A.C.T. SELF-GOVERNMENT (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1988
A.C.T. SELF-GOVERNMENT (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS)
REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Subsection 31(1) of the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations making provision (including provision by way of modifications of an Act) in relation to:
(a) any matter arising from, connected with or consequential upon the establishment of the Territory as a body politic under the Crown; or
(b) any matter arising from, connected with or consequential upon the conversion of a law into an enactment.
Subsection 31(2) provides that regulations made under section 31(1) may be expressed to commence on and from a date earlier than the making of the regulations not being a date earlier than Self-Government Day.
The Regulations provide for the modification of the States Grants (Nurse Education Transfer Assistance) Act 1985.
The purpose of the modifications is to enable the Commonwealth to treat the ACT like the States and the Northern Territory for the purposes of the States Grants (Nurse Education Transfer Assistance) Act 1985.
The details of the Regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations shall be taken to have commenced on 11 May 1989, the date of Self-Government in the Australian Capital Territory.
Regulation 2 provides that the modifications to the States Grants (Nurse Education Transfer Assistance) Act 1985 are inserted in Schedule 1 of the ACT Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations.
The Schedule provides that section 3 of the States Grants (Nurse Education Transfer Assistance) Act 1985 (the interpretation section) will be modified to provide that:
by the insertion of a new paragraph 3(1)(aa), a reference to “relevant State Minister” in the Act includes, in relation to the Australian Capital Territory - the Minister of the Australian Capital Territory who is responsible, or prinipally responsible, for the administration of matters relating to the education of nurses in the Australian Capital Territory; and
in subsection 3(2) a reference to “State” in the Act includes the Australian Capital Territory (a reference to “State” presently includes the Northern Territory).
ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF
THE MINISTER FOR THE ARTS,
TOURISM AND TERRITORIES