Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) Section 43(2)
is amended by deleting “a number of” and inserting
instead —
“ the period of 14 ”.
(2) After
section 43(2) the following subsections are inserted —
“
(3) If the notice of a resolution referred to in
subsection (1) is given to a House and that resolution is not lost but,
before the period of 30 sitting days mentioned in subsection (1)(b) and
(c) expires, Parliament is prorogued or that House is dissolved or
expires —
(a) the
relevant proposal does not lapse but, subject to paragraph (b)(iii), it
cannot be implemented; and
(b) on
the commencement of the next session of Parliament —
(i)
the Minister may cause the proposal to be laid before
that House again;
(ii)
notice of a resolution disallowing the proposal may be
given again in that House; and
(iii)
subsection (1) applies again but as if the
references in subsection (1)(b) and (c) to the period of 30 sitting days
after the proposal was laid were references to the remaining sitting days
after notice of a resolution disallowing the proposal is given under
subparagraph (ii).
(4) In
subsection (3)(b)(iii) —
"remaining sitting days" means the number of
sitting days equal to the portion of the period of 30 sitting days mentioned
in subsection (1)(b) and (c) that remained unexpired when Parliament
was prorogued, or the relevant House was dissolved or expired, as referred to
in subsection (3).
”.