Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 29

  (1)   In this section:

"enactment" includes a part of an enactment.

"Parliamentary precincts" means the precincts defined by subsection   3(1) of the Parliamentary Precincts Act 1988 .

  (2)   If either House of the Parliament passes a resolution declaring that an enactment made after the commencing day does not apply:

  (a)   to that House;

  (b)   to the members of that House; or

  (c)   in the Parliamentary precincts;

the resolution has effect according to its tenor and the enactment does not apply accordingly.

  (3)   A resolution under subsection   (2):

  (a)   does not have effect in respect of the application of an enactment on a day before the day on which the resolution is passed; and

  (b)   has effect, to the extent that the enactment ceases to apply, as if the enactment were repealed by another enactment.