Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Bill 2002
First Reading

2002

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Bill 2002

No. , 2002

(Attorney-General)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, and for related purposes

Contents

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986       3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

        This Act may be cited as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Act 2002.

2 Commencement

        This Act is taken to have commenced on 13 April 2000.

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        Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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--Amendments

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

1 After subsection 6(1)

Insert:

       (1A) Part IIB binds the Crown in right of the States.