Trade Practices Amendment (Operation of State and Territory Laws) Bill 2001
First Reading
1998-1999-2000-2001
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Trade Practices Amendment (Operation of State and Territory Laws) Bill 2001
No. , 2001
(Senator Schacht)
A Bill for an Act to allow State and Territory laws to operate concurrently with the Trade Practices Act 1974
ISBN: 0642 459606
Contents
A Bill for an Act to allow State and Territory laws to operate concurrently with the Trade Practices Act 1974
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Trade Practices Amendment (Operation of State and Territory Laws) Act 2001.
2 Commencement This Act commences on the 28th day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1--Amendment of the Trade Practices Act 1974 1 At the end of Part IVA
Add:
51ACAA Concurrent operation of State and Territory laws It is the Parliament's intention that a law of a State or Territory should be able to operate concurrently with this Part unless the law is directly inconsistent with this Part.
2 At the end of Part IVB
Add:
51AEA Concurrent operation of State and Territory laws It is the Parliament's intention that a law of a State or Territory should be able to operate concurrently with this Part unless the law is directly inconsistent with this Part.
3 Application of items 1 and 2
The amendments made by items 1 and 2 apply in relation to a law of a State or Territory made before, on or after the commencement of those items.