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      <p>
        <b>C</b>
        <b>ompanies and Securities (Interpretation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1981</b>
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      <p>
        <b>No. 98 of 1981</b>
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      <p>
        <b>An Act to amend the </b>
        <b>
          <i>Companies and Securities (Interpretation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act </i>
        </b>
        <b>1980</b>
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      <p>[<i>Assented to 18 June 1981</i>]</p>
      <p>BE IT ENACTED by the Queen and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:</p>
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        <b>Short title, &amp;c.</b>
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        <num>1</num>
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            <p><b>1.</b><b> (1)</b> This Act may be cited as the <i>Companies and Securities (Interpretation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act </i>(<i>No.</i> 2) 1981.</p>
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          <num>2</num>
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            <p><b>(2)</b> The <i>Companies and Securities (Interpretation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act </i>1980<sup>1</sup> is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.</p>
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        <num>2</num>
        <heading>Commencement</heading>
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          <p><b>2.</b> This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the <i>Companies Act </i>1981 comes into operation.</p>
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        <num>3</num>
        <heading>Definitions</heading>
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          <p><b>3.</b> Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—</p>
          <p>(a) by omitting <i>“</i><i>Companies Ordinance </i>1962” from the definition of “constituent documents” and substituting <i>“</i><i>Companies Act </i>1981”; and</p>
          <p>(b) by omitting the definition of “‘the Territory’ or ‘the Australian Capital Territory’” and substituting the following definition:</p>
          <p>“‘the Territory’ or ‘the Australian Capital Territory’ means the Territory accepted by the Commonwealth pursuant to the <i>Seat of Government Act </i>1909 and described in the Second Schedule to that Act, and includes the Jervis Bay Territory.”.</p>
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        <num>1</num>
        <heading>NOTE</heading>
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          <p>No. 68, 1980, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 4, 1981.</p>
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