Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ACT 1981 No. 20, 1981 - SECT 5

5. After section 6 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted in
Part I: Bodies to which Act applies



"6A. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act applies to every authority of
the Commonwealth.



"(2) This Act does not apply to -

   (a)  an authority of the Commonwealth in respect of which a declaration
        referred to in sub-section (3) is in force;

   (b)  the Parliament House Construction Authority; or

   (c)  an authority of the Commonwealth established for the purpose of
        providing, or for purposes which include the purpose of providing,
        tertiary education in the Australian Capital Territory.



"(3) Where the Governor-General is satisfied that an authority of the
Commonwealth is engaging in trading or other activities, or is providing
services, in competition with another body or other bodies, or with persons,
the Governor-General may make regulations declaring that this Act does not
apply to that authority. Regulations may declare works to be public works



"6B. (1) The regulations may declare a work that is proposed to be carried out
by or on behalf of the National Capital Development Commission -

   (a)  for the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  for an authority of the Commonwealth to which this Act applies
        (including that Commission), to be a prescribed work for the purposes
        of the definition of 'public work' in section 5.



"(2) Notwithstanding that an authority of the Commonwealth is not an authority
of the Commonwealth to which this Act applies, the regulations may declare a
work -

   (a)  that is proposed to be carried out by or for the authority; and

   (b)  in respect of the carrying out of which moneys appropriated by the
        Parliament, or moneys of the authority, are proposed to be expended by
        the authority, to be a public work to which section 18 applies.".