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Act No. 2 of 1930 as amended, taking into account amendments up to Act No. 216 of 1973
Registered 07 Dec 2009
Start Date 31 Dec 1973
End Date 16 Sep 1994
Date of repeal 16 Sep 1994
Repealed by Environment, Sport and Territories Legislation Amendment Act 1994

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930
- Reprinted as at 19 December 1973 (HISTACT2 CHAP 362 #DATE 19:12:1973)

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973

TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title and citation
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Repeal
5. Amendments of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1973
6. Validation of Regulations made by authority of Ordinances
7. Vesting of land and other property
8. Continuance of contracts, &c.
9. (Repealed)
10. Statement of receipts and expenditure
11. Appropriation
12. Saving
13. References in other Acts to Federal Capital Commission

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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 1.
Short title.

SECT

purposes.
Short title and citation.
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1930-1973.*

(2) The Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1930.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.

SECT

2. This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.*

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 3.
Definitions.

SECT

Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

''the Commission'' means the Federal Capital Commission appointed under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924-1929;

''the Territory'' means the Territory accepted by the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909, and described in the Second Schedule to that Act, and includes the Jervis Bay Territory.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 4.
Repeal.

SECT

4. The Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924-1929 is repealed.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 5.

SECT

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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 6.
Validation of Regulations made by authority of Ordinances.

SECT

6. (1) All regulations made or purporting to have been made by the authority of any Ordinance under the Principal Act and in force at the date of the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be as valid and effectual for all purposes, and to be of the same force and effect, as if they were, at the time of their making, incorporated in the Ordinances under which they were made or purport to have been made.

(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to the Roads and Footpaths Regulations published in the Gazette of the tenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 7.
Vesting of land and other property.

SECT

7. (1) Any land vested in the Commission immediately prior to the commencement of this Act is hereby vested in the Commonwealth for the same estate as that for which it was held by the Commission.
Sub-section (1A) omitted by No. 70, 1955, s. 6.
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(2) All moneys and other assets the property of the Commission immediately prior to the commencement of this Act are hereby vested in the Commonwealth.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 8.
Continuance of contracts, &c.

SECT

8. Any contract, lease or agreement to which the Commission is a party, which is in force or continuing immediately prior to the commencement of this Act, shall continue in force as if this Act had not been passed:

Provided that the Commonwealth shall be substituted as a party to any such contract, lease or agreement in lieu of the Commission.
Section 9 repealed by No. 65, 1966, s. 19.
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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 10.
Statement of receipts and expenditure.

SECT

10. The Minister shall as soon as possible after the close of each financial year cause to be prepared and laid before each House of the Parliament a statement of moneys received and expended during that year by the Commonwealth in the administration and development of the Territory.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 11.
Appropriation.

SECT

11. The Consolidated Revenue Fund is to the necessary extent hereby appropriated for the purposes of any interest or sinking fund payments to which the Commonwealth is liable in pursuance of the provisions of this Act.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 12.
Saving.

SECT

12. The repeal of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924-1929 shall not affect any agreement, licence or permit made, granted or preserved thereunder and existing at the commencement of this Act, or any right, title, interest, power, duty, obligation or liability created by, acquired under, or at any time existing under, or by virtue or in respect of, any such agreement, licence or permit, and all such agreements, licences and permits shall continue to be of the same force and effect as if this Act had not been passed.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - SECT. 13.
References in other Acts to Federal Capital Commission.

SECT

13. Any reference in any Act, other than the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924-1929, to the Federal Capital Commission, shall be read as a reference to the Commonwealth or to such other authority (if any) as the Governor-General directs.
Section 14 repealed by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
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Schedule repealed by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1930-1973 - NOTES


NOTES
1. The Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1930-1973 comprises the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1930 as amended by the other Acts specified in the following table:
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Number Date of
Act and year Date of
Assent commencement
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Seat of Government
(Administration) Act
1930 No. 2, 1930 29 Mar 1930 1 May 1930 (see
Gazette 1930, p.
891)
Seat of Government
(Administration) Act
1934 No. 67, 1934 17 Dec 1934 17 Dec 1934
Seat of Government
(Administration) Act
1935 No. 39, 1935 25 Oct 1935 1 May 1930 (a)
Australian Capital
Territory and Jervis Bay
(Lands Acquisition) Act
1955 No. 70, 1955 4 Nov 1955 16 Feb 1956 (see
Gazette 1956, p.
472)
National Debt Sinking
Fund Act 1966 No. 65, 1966 29 Oct 1966 1 July 1966
Statute Law Revision Act
1973 No. 216, 1973 19 Dec 1973 31 Dec 1973
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(a) By section 2 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1935 that Act was deemed to have commenced on the date of commencement of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1930.
2. The amendments made by section 5 of this Act have been incorporated in the print of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1973.