Western Australian Current Acts

RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 2003 - SECT 117

117 .         Laying documents before House of Parliament that is not sitting

        (1)         If section 70(5), 73(4), 79(1) or Schedule 1 clause 8(7) requires the Minister to cause the text of a document to be laid before each House of Parliament, or dealt with under this section, within a period and —

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

            (b)         the Minister is of the opinion that the House will not sit during that period,

                the Minister is to transmit a copy of the text of the document to the Clerk of that House.

        (2)         A copy of the text of a document transmitted to the Clerk of a House is taken to have been laid before that House.

        (3)         The laying of a copy of the text of a document that is taken to have occurred under subsection (2) is to be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the first sitting day of the House after the Clerk received the copy.

        [Section 117 amended: No. 8 of 2009 s. 106.]