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 (Repealed)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 The Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924-1929 is repealed.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