Australian Capital Territory Numbered Ordinances

Classification of Publications (Amendment) Ordinance (No 2) 1988

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Classification of Publications (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1988

No. 35 of 1988

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 17 June 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Classification of Publications Ordinance 1983 and for other purposes

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Classification of Publications (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1988.¹

Commencement

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as is fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

Exemptions

3. Section 56 of the Classification of Publications Ordinance 1983² is amended—

(a) by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:

“(1) The regulations may exempt a specified person or body from specified provisions of this Ordinance, subject to specified conditions (if any).”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “an exemption” and substituting “a prescribed exemption”.

Administrative Arrangements (Consequential Amendments) Ordinance 1987—amendment

4. Schedule 1 to the Administrative Arrangements (Consequential Amendments) Ordinance 1987 is amended by omitting from item 2 “and subsections 30 (3) and 56 (1)” and substituting “and subsection 30 (3)”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 July 1988.

2. No. 59, 1983 as amended by No. 17, 1984; No. 67, 1985; No. 37, 1987; No. 14, 1988.