Restoring Territory Rights Act 2022

No. 95, 2022

An Act to amend the law in relation to the legislative powers of territories, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Part 1—Amendments 3

Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 3

Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 3

Part 2—Application 4

Restoring Territory Rights Act 2022

No. 95, 2022

An Act to amend the law in relation to the legislative powers of territories, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 December 2022]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act is the Restoring Territory Rights Act 2022.
2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 13 December 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988

 1 Subsections 23(1A) and (1B)

Repeal the subsections.

Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978

 2 Section 50A

Repeal the section.

 3 Application 1

(1) Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 of the Northern Territory:

 a

continues to have effect as a law of the Territory in relation to any act or thing that was done before 27 March 1997; but

 b

has no force or effect as a law of the Territory in relation to any act or thing done on or after that day.

 2

Subitem (1) applies subject to a contrary intention in a law of the Northern Territory that is enacted after the commencement of this item.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 1 August 2022

Senate on 3 August 2022]

(67/22)