Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

IMPERIAL ACTS APPLICATION ACT 1986

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           Table of Amendments
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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Imperial Acts Application Act 1986.1  
   2.      (1) Subject to this  
   3.      (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—“applied Imperial Act” means—  
   4.      (1) Subject to subsections (2), (3) and (6), the applied Imperial Act 8 and 9 Will. 3 c. 11 and the applied Imperial Act 4 and 5 Anne c. 3 continue to be in force in the Territory on and after the commencing date as if—  
   5.      (1) An applied Imperial Act the citation of which is specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall be deemed to be amended by this Act to the extent necessary for it to be in force in the Territory in the terms set out in the Part of Schedule 3 specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 opposite to the citation of that Act in column 1.  
   6.      (1) Nothing in section 5 shall be taken to prevent—  
   6B.     6B. A continued applied Imperial Act that has been given a citation by the Imperial Act 59 and 60 Vac. c. 14 (Short Titles Act, 1896) or by the Imperial Act 11 and 12 Geo. 6 c. 62 (Statute Law Revision Act, 1948) may, in its application as a law of the Territory, be cited by the citation so given to it.  
   7.      (1) The ceasing of an applied Imperial Act, or of a part of an applied Imperial Act, to be in force in the Territory by virtue of this Act does not—  
   8.      Where, upon the commencing date—  
   9.      (1) The headnotes to sections of an applied Imperial Act the text of which is set out in a Part of Schedule 3 do not form part of that Act or of this Act.  
   11.     In an Imperial Act that continues to be in force in the Territory on and after the commencing date in accordance with this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to the Sovereign reigning at the time of the enactment of the Act or to the Crown, shall be read as a reference to the Sovereign for the time being.  
   12.     (1) This Act, and every applied Imperial Act that continues to be in force in the Territory by virtue of this Act, shall be read and construed subject to the Constitution, and so as not to exceed the legislative power in respect of the Territory, to the intent that where any part of this Act, or of such an Act, would, but for this subsection, have been construed as being in excess of that power, it shall nevertheless be a valid enactment to the extent to which it is not in excess of that power.  
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