Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2002 (Cth)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2002

No. 40, 2002

An Act to amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s).................................. 4 Transitional provisions...........................

Schedule 1—Amendments Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2002

No. 40, 2002

An Act to amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989, and for related purposes

[Assented to 27 June 2002]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2002.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4 Transitional provisions

A request that a body corporate purported to make before the commencement of this section under the subsection repealed by item 46 of Schedule 1, and a decision that the Commission purported to make as a result of such a request, are taken to be, and to have at all times been, as valid as they would have been if the subsection substituted by that item had been in force when the body purported to make the request or the Commission purported to make the decision, as the case may be.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989

1 After paragraph 31(2)(a) Insert: (aa) has been convicted of 2 or more offences against a Commonwealth, State or Territory law and sentenced in respect of all the offences to a single penalty of imprisonment for one year or longer; or