Western Australian Current Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2022 - SECT 258

258 .         Laying documents before House of Parliament not sitting

        (1)         This section applies if —

            (a)         a provision of this Act requires the Attorney General to cause a document to be laid before each House of Parliament, or dealt with under this section, within a period; and

            (b)         at the beginning of the period, a House of Parliament is not sitting; and

            (c)         in the Attorney General’s opinion, the House will not sit before the end of the period.

        (2)         The Attorney General must send the document to the Clerk of the House before the end of the period.

        (3)         When the document is sent to the Clerk of the House it is taken to have been laid before the House.

        (4)         The laying of the document that is taken to have occurred under subsection (3) must be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the first sitting day of the House after the Clerk receives the document.