Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 34

  (1)   In this section:

"Imperial Act" has the same meaning as in the Imperial Acts Application Ordinance 1986 of the Territory.

"law" includes a provision of a law.

  (2)   A law specified in Schedule   2 shall be taken to be an enactment, and may be amended or repealed accordingly.

  (4)   A law (other than a law of the Commonwealth) that, immediately before the commencing day:

  (a)   was in force in the Territory; and

  (b)   was an Ordinance, an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales or an Imperial Act;

shall be taken to be an enactment, and may be amended or repealed accordingly.

  (5)   Subsection   (4) does not apply to a law specified in Schedule   5.

  (9)   This section does not limit the power of the Assembly to make laws with respect to the common law.