Queensland Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH POWERS (DE FACTO RELATIONSHIPS) ACT 2003 - SECT 5

5 Termination of references

(1) The Governor may, at any time, by proclamation published in the gazette, fix a day as the day on which the references under this Act are to terminate.

(2) The day fixed under subsection (1) must be no earlier than the first day after the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which the proclamation is published in the gazette.

(3) The Governor may, by proclamation, revoke a proclamation published under subsection (1) , in which case the revoked proclamation is taken, for the purposes of section 4 , never to have been published.

(4) A revoking proclamation has effect only if published before the day fixed under subsection (1) .

(5) The revocation of a proclamation published under subsection (1) does not prevent publication of a further proclamation under that subsection.

(6) A proclamation made under this section is subordinate legislation.