Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005 (NO 17 OF 2005) - SECT 9

After section 21 of the Victorian Law Reform Commission Act 2000 insert —

        "21A.     Reports to Parliament when Parliament is in recess

    (1)     If the Attorney-General proposes to cause an interim or final report submitted to him or her under section 21 to be laid before Parliament at a time when Parliament is in recess, the Attorney-General must—

        (a)     give one business day's notice of his or her intention to do so to the clerk of each House of the Parliament; and

        (b)     give the report to the clerk of each House on the day indicated in the notice.

    (2)     The clerk of each House must—

        (a)     notify each member of the House of the receipt of a notice under sub-section (1)(a) on the same day that the clerk receives that notice; and

        (b)     give a copy of the report to each member of the House as soon as practicable after the report is received under sub-section (1)(b); and

        (c)     cause the report to be laid before the House on the next sitting day of the House.

    (3)     An interim or final report that is given to the clerks under sub-section (1)(b) is taken to have been published by order, or under the authority, of the Houses of the Parliament.

    (4)     For the purposes of this section, Parliament is in recess when each House stands adjourned to a date to be fixed by the presiding officer of that House.".

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