Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1973

No. 134 of 1973

AN ACT

To make provision with respect to the Liability in relation to Air Accidents of certain Authorities of Territories.

[Assented to 13 November 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1973.

(2) The Air Accidents (Commonwealth Liability) Act 1963-1971 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1963-1973.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of the definition of “Commonwealth authority” the words “, and includes a body corporate that is incorporated for a public purpose by a law of a Territory and is declared by the regulations to be a body corporate in relation to which this Act applies”.

Formal amendments.

4. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Section 4

The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting any number expressed in words that is used, whether with or without the addition of a letter, to identify a section of that Act or of another Act, and substituting that number expressed in figures:—

Sections 7, 9(1), 10(3), 13 and 15(3).