Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 No. 106 of 1988 - SECT 34

34. (1) In this section:

"Imperial Act" has the same meaning as in the Imperial Acts Application
Ordinance 1986 of the Territory;

"law" includes a provision of a law.

(2) A law specified in Schedule 2 shall be taken to be an enactment, and may
be amended or repealed accordingly.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the Australian Capital Territory 
Evidence (Temporary Provisions) Act 1971 or the Australian Capital Territory 
Supreme Court Act 1933 until after 1 July 1992 or until regulations amend
Schedule 3 in the manner referred to in subsection (7), whichever sooner
occurs.

(4) A law (other than a law of the Commonwealth) that, immediately before the
commencing day:

   (a)  was in force in the Territory; and

   (b)  was an Ordinance, an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales or an
        Imperial Act; shall be taken to be an enactment, and may be amended or
        repealed accordingly.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to a law specified in Schedule 3.

(6) The regulations may amend Schedule 3 by omitting a law from that Schedule
and, in such a case, the law shall be taken to be an enactment, and may be
amended or repealed accordingly.

(7) If, before 1 July 1992, the regulations do not amend Schedule 3 by
omitting all the laws in Schedule 3, other than those referred to in Schedule
5, then, on and after that date, those laws shall be taken to be enactments
and may be amended or repealed accordingly.

(8) Until the commencing day, the regulations may amend Schedule 3 by adding a
law to that Schedule.

(9) This section does not limit the power of the Assembly to make laws with
respect to the common law.