THE TERRITORY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
No. 3 of 1976
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AN ORDINANCE
Relating to the Citation of Ordinances.
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 this twenty-sixth day of August, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
R. G. WITHERS
Minister of State for Administrative Services.
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ORDINANCES CITATION ORDINANCE 1976
Short title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ordinances Citation Ordinance 1976.[*]
2. After section 8 of the Interpretation Ordinance 1958[†] the following sections are inserted:—
References to Ordinances.
“8a. Where an Ordinance contains—
(a) a reference to the short title of another Ordinance as originally made; or
(b) a reference to a method of citation that is, or at any time has been, provided by law for the citation of another Ordinance as amended,
then, except so far as the contrary intention appears—
(c) the reference shall be construed as a reference to that other Ordinance as originally made and as amended from time to time; and
(d) where that other Ordinance has been repealed and remade, with or without modification, the reference shall be construed as including a reference to the remade Ordinance as originally made and as amended from time to time and, where, in connexion with that reference, particular provisions of the repealed Ordinance are referred to, being provisions to which provisions of the remade Ordinance correspond, the reference to those particular provisions shall be construed as including a reference to those corresponding provisions.
References to Acts.
“8b. Where an Ordinance contains—
(a) a reference to the short title of an Act as originally enacted; or
(b) a reference, to a method of citation that is, or at any time has been, provided by law for the citation of an Act as amended,
then, except so far as the contrary intention appears—
(c) the reference shall be construed as a reference to the Act as originally enacted and as amended from time to time; and
(d) where that Act has been repealed and re-enacted, with or without modification, the reference shall be construed as including a reference to the re-enacted Act as originally enacted and as amended from time to time and, where, in connexion with that reference, particular provisions of the repealed Act are referred to, being provisions to which provisions of the re-enacted Act correspond, the reference to those particular provisions shall be construed as including a reference to those corresponding provisions.”.
Short titles of amended Ordinances.
3.(1) Where—
(a) immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, an Ordinance (in this sub-section called “the principal Ordinance”) was in force as amended by another Ordinance (in this sub-section called “the amending Ordinance”); and
(b) the amending Ordinance provided that the principal Ordinance, as so amended, may be cited by a method of citation specified in the amending Ordinance,
the principal Ordinance shall be deemed to be amended by substituting that method of citation for the short title of the principal Ordinance.
(2) Where, by virtue of an amendment deemed to be made by sub-section (1), an Ordinance contains a provision that the Ordinance may be cited by a method of citation that contains figures referring to 2 years, that provision is amended by omitting so much of the method of citation as follows the reference to the first of those years.
(3) Where, by virtue of an amendment deemed to be made by sub-section (1), an Ordinance contains a provision that the Ordinance may be cited by a method of citation that contains the word “Ordinances” immediately before figures referring to a year, that provision is amended by omitting the word “Ordinances” and substituting the word “Ordinance”.
[*] Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 1 September 1976.
[†] Ordinance No. 1, 1958, as amended by No. 1, 1960; No. 1, 1962; No. 4, 1964; No. 1, 1966; No. 2, 1967; No. 2, 1968; No. 4, 1972; and No. 2, 1973.