PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.
No. 88 of 1953.
An Act to amend the Public Works Committee Act 1913-1951, and for other purposes.
[Assented to 11th December, 1953.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Public Works Committee Act 1953.
(2.) The Public Works Committee Act 1913-1951 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Public Works Committee Act 1913-1953.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Chairman and vice-chairman.
3. Section eight of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “who shall be elected by the members of the Committee at their first meeting, or as soon thereafter as is practicable” and inserting in their stead the words “who shall be elected by the members of the Committee from time to time and shall hold office as chairman and vice-chairman during the pleasure of the Committee”.
Validation.
4. From and including the day of the death of the late the Honourable Allan McKenzie McDonald, the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, until the first election of a chairman of the Committee under the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the vice-chairman of the Committee shall be deemed to have had, and shall have, all the powers given by the Principal Act to the chairman of the Committee.