Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 151

151. (1) The following Acts are repealed:

Australian Capital Territory Representation (House of Representatives) Act
1973

Australian Capital Territory Representation (House of  Representatives) Act
1974 

Northern Territory Representation Act 1922

Northern Territory Representation Act 1925

Northern Territory Representation Act 1936

Northern Territory Representation Act 1949

Northern Territory Representation Act 1959

Northern Territory Representation Act 1968

Representation Act 1905

Representation Act 1938

Representation Act 1964

Representation Act 1973

Representation Amendment Act 1977

Senate Elections (Queensland) Act 1982

Senate (Representation of Territories) Act 1973

Senate (Representation of Territories) Amendment Act 1980.

(2) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-section (1), a person who was,
immediately before the commencement of this section, a senator for the
Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory continues, after the
commencement of this section, to hold office, in accordance with the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, as a senator for the Australian Capital
Territory or the Northern Territory, as the case may be.

(3) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-section (1), section 9 of the
Senate (Representation of Territories) Act 1973 as in force immediately before
the commencement of this section continues to apply in relation to the place
of a senator for the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory
that became vacant before the expiration of his term of service, and before
the commencement of this section, as if the repeal effected by sub-section (1)
of this section had not been effected, but, after the commencement of this
section, a person chosen or appointed under that first-mentioned section,
being a person who held office as a senator for the Australian Capital
Territory or the Northern Territory, as the case may be, immediately before
the commencement of this section or was so chosen or appointed after the
commencement of this section, continues to hold office or holds office, as the
case may be, as a senator for the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern
Territory, as the case may be, in accordance with the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

(4) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Australian Capital Territory
Representation (House of Representatives) Act 1973, a person who was,
immediately before the commencement of this section, the member of the House
of Representatives for a Division in the Australian Capital Territory
continues, after the commencement of this section, to hold office, in
accordance with the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, as the member of the
House of Representatives for that Division.

(5) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Australian Capital Territory 
Representation (House of Representatives) Act 1974 , the names and boundaries
of the Divisions in force in the Australian Capital Territory immediately
before the commencement of this section continue, until altered in accordance
with the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, to be the names and boundaries of
the Divisions in the Territory.

(6) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-section (1), the person who
was, immediately before the commencement of this section, the member of the
House of Representatives representing the Northern Territory continues, after
the commencement of this section, to hold office, in accordance with the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, as the member of the House of Representatives
representing the Northern Territory.