Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current ActsPreamble
Whereas the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth and the Premiers of the States
at conferences held in Canberra on 24 and 25 June 1982 and 21 June 1984 agreed
on the taking of certain measures to bring constitutional arrangements
affecting the Commonwealth and the States into conformity with the status of
the Commonwealth of Australia as a sovereign, independent and federal nation:
and whereas it has been agreed that the Parliament of the Commonwealth at the
request of the Parliaments of the States in pursuance of section 51(xxxviii)
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia should enact an Act in
the terms of the First Schedule:
and whereas it has been agreed that each State should request and consent to
the enactment by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of an Act in the terms
of the Schedule to the Act contained in the Second Schedule:
and whereas it has been agreed that the Parliament of the Commonwealth with
the concurrence of all the States should enact an Act requesting and
consenting to the enactment by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of an Act
in the terms of the Schedule to the Act contained in the Second Schedule:
[Preamble amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 50.]
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative
Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same, as follows: —