Territories Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (154 of 2020)

Schedule 1   Amendments of Territory Acts

Part 1   Applied laws, delegations and other matters

Division 1   Amendments

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955

37   Subsections 8G(1) and (2)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(1) If, by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in:

(a) a Minister of Western Australia; or

(b) the Governor of Western Australia; or

(c) the Governor-in-Council of Western Australia;

that power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.

(2) If:

(a) by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in a person (other than a court officer of Western Australia) or an authority (other than a court of Western Australia); and

(b) subsection (1) does not apply to that power;

the power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.

(2A) To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a power vested in a person or authority by an applied Western Australian law does not include a reference to a power so vested, whether directly or indirectly, because of an Ordinance made for the purposes of subsection 8A(2).

Note: Under subsection 8A(2), an Ordinance may provide for the incorporation, amendment or repeal of a law in force in the Territory under section 8A.