Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIA ACT 1986 No. 142 of 1985 - LONG TITLE

An Act to bring constitutional arrangements affecting the Commonwealth and the
States into conformity with the status of the Commonwealth of Australia as a
sovereign, independent and federal nation
(Assented to 4 December 1985) 

WHEREAS the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth and the Premiers of the States
at conferences held in Canberra on 24 and 25 June 1982 and 21 June 1984 agreed
on the taking of certain measures to bring constitutional arrangements
affecting the Commonwealth and the States into conformity with the status of
the Commonwealth of Australia as a sovereign, independent and federal nation:
AND WHEREAS in pursuance of paragraph 51 (xxxviii) of the Constitution the
Parliaments of all the States have requested the Parliament of the
Commonwealth to enact an Act in the terms of this Act:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows: