Compilation #0 | Effective 1975-09-09
FRBR Work URI: /akn/au/act/1975/98
This Act may be cited as the Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975.
This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
In this Act:
Independence Day means 16 September 1975.
Papua New Guinea has the same meaning as in the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1975.
In this Act, a reference to an Act or to an Imperial Act includes a reference to an instrument made under an Act or an Imperial Act.
On the expiration of the day preceding Independence Day, Australia ceases to have any sovereignty, sovereign rights or rights of administration in respect of or appertaining to the whole or any part of Papua New Guinea.
On the expiration of the day preceding Independence Day:
(a) the Acts specified in the Schedule are repealed; and
(b) every Act, and every Imperial Act, extending to the whole or any part of Papua New Guinea as part of the law of Papua New Guinea ceases so to extend.
The Governor-General may make regulations making provision for or in relation to matters arising out of or connected with the attainment of the independence of Papua New Guinea, including regulations making modifications or adaptations of any Act.
Regulations under subsection (1) made before Independence Day shall not have effect before that day.
Schedule 1—Acts repealed
Section 5
Papua and New Guinea Act 1949
Papua and New Guinea Act 1954
Papua and New Guinea Act 1957
Papua and New Guinea Act 1960
Papua and New Guinea Act (No. 2) 1960
Papua and New Guinea Act 1963
Papua and New Guinea Act 1964
Papua and New Guinea Act 1966
Papua and New Guinea Act 1968
Papua and New Guinea Act (No. 2) 1968
Papua and New Guinea Act 1971
Papua New Guinea Act 1971
Papua New Guinea Act 1972
Papua New Guinea Act 1973
Papua New Guinea Act (No. 2) 1973
Papua New Guinea Act 1974
Papua New Guinea Act (No. 2) 1974
Papua New Guinea Act 1975