Western Australian Current Acts

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TREASURY CORPORATION ACT 1986 - SECT 16Q

16Q .         Procedure where a House is not sitting

        (1)         If —

            (a)         at the commencement of a period referred to in section 16E(5), 16H(4), 16M(5), 16O(2), 16P(4), or 21B(4) in respect of a document a House of Parliament is not sitting; and

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

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

        (2)         A copy 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 a document that is taken to have occurred under subsection (2) shall be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the first sitting day of the House after the receipt of the copy by the Clerk.

        [Section 16Q inserted: No. 25 of 1998 s. 18; amended: No. 28 of 2006 s. 450; No. 8 of 2009 s. 138.]