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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT SURRENDER ACT 1909 - As at 7 December 2007 - Act 14 of 1909 - NOTES

Preamble

WHEREAS by the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act it is provided that the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth shall be determined by the Parliament, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Commonwealth: And whereas the Commonwealth and the State of New South Wales have entered into an agreement, set out in the First Schedule to this Act, for the surrender to and acceptance by the Commonwealth, for the purposes of the Seat of Government and for the other purposes incidental thereto, of the territory now being part of the said State, and described in the Second Schedule to this Act: And whereas it is desirable to approve and ratify, and to provide for carrying out the said agreement, and on the terms and conditions thereof to surrender the said territory to the Commonwealth:

Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Table of amending instruments

Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 No 14. Assented to 14.12.1909. Date of commencement, 15.12.1909, sec 3 and GG No 157 of 15.12.1909, p 6669. This Act has been amended as follows:

1923 No 31 Seat of Government Surrender (Amendment) Act 1923. Assented to 18.12.1923.
Date of commencement, 1.5.1925, sec 3 and GG No 53 of 17.4.1925, p 1826.
1997 No 99 Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997. Assented to 24.11.1997.
Date of commencement of sec 53 (2), 28.6.2002, sec 2 and GG No 105 of 24.6.2002, p 4669 and Commonwealth Gazette No S 216 of 26.6.2002.
2007 No 82 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2007. Assented to 7.12.2007.
Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).

Table of amendments

Sec 9 Ins 2007 No 82, Sch 4.17.
First Sch Am 1923 No 31, sec 5 (a); 1997 No 99, sec 53 (2).
Third Sch Subst 1923 No 31, sec 5 (b).


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