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FLAGS AMENDMENT BILL 2014

 

 

 

2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

THE SENATE 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Flags Amendment Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Senator Madigan and Senator Xenophon) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Flags Act 1953, and 

for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

No.      , 2014 

Flags Amendment Bill 2014 

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Contents 

Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Flags Act 1953

 

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No.      , 2014 

Flags Amendment Bill 2014 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Flags Act 1953, and 

for related purposes 

The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

1  Short title 

 

  This Act may be cited as the Flags Amendment Act 2014

2  Commencement 

 

(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

according to its terms. 

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Flags Amendment Bill 2014 

No.      , 2014 

 

Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provision(s) 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. 

However, if the provision(s) do not 

commence within the period of 6 months 

beginning on the day this Act receives the 

Royal Assent, they commence on the day 

after the end of that period. 

 

Note:  

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

this Act. 

 

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

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 

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according to its terms. 

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Flags Act 1953  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Flags Amendment Bill 2014 

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Schedule 1

--

Flags Act 1953 

   

1  Section 7 

Before "The Governor-General", insert "(1)". 

2  Section 7 

Omit "flag or ensign referred to in, or appointed under, this Act", 

substitute "designated flag". 

3  At the end of section 7 

Add: 

 

(2)  The Commonwealth must only fly, use or supply a designated flag 

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if the flag was manufactured in Australia from materials 

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manufactured in Australia. 

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(3)  A designated flag is a flag or ensign referred to in, or appointed 

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under, this Act. 

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