THE TERRITORY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
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Lands (Amendment) Ordinance 1988
No. 2 of 1988
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Christmas Island Act 1958.
Dated 25 May 1988.
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Arts and Territories
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Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lands (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.1
Guidelines to Administrator
2. Section 4 of the Lands Ordinance 19872 is amended by adding at the end the following subsections:
“(3) Notice that guidelines have been laid down shall be published in the Gazette and the guidelines shall come into operation on the day of that publication unless the guidelines specify a later commencement day.
“(4) Guidelines shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which notice is published in the Gazette that the guidelines have been laid down.
“(5) Guidelines not so laid before each House of the Parliament shall be void and of no effect.
“(6) The provisions of subsections 10 (2) to (5), inclusive, of the Christmas Island Act 1958 apply in relation to guidelines laid before a House of the Parliament as if:
(a) the references in those subsections to an Ordinance were references to guidelines; and
(b) the references in subsections 10 (4) and 10 (4a) of that Act to subsection 10 (1) of that Act were references to subsection (5).”.
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Warrant of ejectment
3. Section 11 of the Lands Ordinance 1987 is amended by inserting in subsection (1) “and reasonable” after “necessary”.
Schedule
4. The Schedule to the Lands Ordinance 1987 is amended:
(a) by omitting “TERRITORIES” from Form 1 and substituting “TERRITORY”;
(b) by omitting “1986” from Forms 1, 2, 3 and 4 (wherever occurring) and substituting “1987”;
(c) by inserting in Form 4 “and reasonable” after “necessary”; and
(d) by omitting “1986” from Form 5 and substituting “1987”.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 June 1988.
2. No. 1, 1987.