THE TERRITORY OF COCOS (KEELING ISLANDS

No. 6 of 1979

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AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Interpretation Ordinance 1955

I, THE GOVEROR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.

Dated this Twentieth

day of December 1979.

ZELMAN GOWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for Home Affairs

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INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1979

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.[*]

Principal Ordinance

2. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Interpretation Ordinance 1955.[†]

Application of Ordinance

3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) “continued in force in the Territory by the Act”.

Interpretation of terms

4. Section 5 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of “law of the Territory”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “Ordinance” in that sub-section “continued in force in the Territory by the Act”; and

(c) by omitting from that sub-section the definition of “Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore” and substituting the following definition:

“‘Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore’ means—

(a) an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore in force in the Territory by virtue of section 8 of the Act;

(b) the provisions of an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore applying by virtue of an Ordinance made under the Act as laws of the Territory;

(c) an Imperial Act or Order in Council continued in force in the Territory by virtue of section 8 of the Act; and

(d) an Ordinance of the Colony of the Straits Settlements in force in the Colony of Singapore immediately before the commencement of the Act or the date of its application as a law of the Territory, as the case may be,

and includes—

(e) an Ordinance, Imperial Act or Order in Council so continued in force, or the provisions of an Ordinance so applying as laws of the Territory, as amended or affected by an Ordinance made under the Act; and

(f) subsidiary legislation under an Ordinance or Imperial Act so continued in force or the provisions of an Ordinance so applying as laws of the Territory;”.

Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances, &c.

5. Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraphs (b) and (d) “continued in force in the Territory by the Act”.

References to certain expressions in laws of Singapore

6. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-sections (1) and (2) “a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act” and substituting “an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore”.

References in laws of Singapore

7. Section 19 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) “a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act” and substituting “an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore”.

Power to make regulations, &c.

8. Section 19a of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “continued in force in the Territory by the Act”.

Notification and commencement of regulations, &c.

9. Section 19b of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) “continued in force in the Territory by the Act”.

References to Singapore currency

10. Section 20 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) “a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act” and substituting “an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore”.

References to persons, places, matters and things in existing laws

11. Section 21 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act “and substituting “an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore”.

Citation of Ordinances of Colony of Singapore

12. Section 23 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “issued before the commencement of the Act” and substituting “issued before the application of the Ordinance as a law of the Territory”.

Repeal of section 24

13. Section 24 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.

[*] Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 December 1979.

[†] Ordinance No. 1, 1955 as amended by No. 1, 1958; No. 1, 1962; No. 3, 1964; Nos. 1 and 6, 1966; No. 1, 1973; No. 2, 1975; No. 3, 1976; and No. 2, 1977.