Australia Acts (Request) Act 1985 (WA)

Western Australia Australia Acts (Request) Act 1985 Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 15 January 2016

Western Australia Australia Acts (Request) Act 1985 Contents 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 3. Commonwealth requested to enact Act (First Schedule) 2 4. United Kingdom requested to enact Act (Schedule to Second Schedule) 2 5. Commonwealth requested to enact Act (Second Schedule) 3 First Schedule — Requested Commonwealth Act: Australia Act 1986 Second Schedule — Requested Commonwealth Act: Australia (Request and Consent) Act 1985 Notes Compilation table 22 Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 15 January 2016

Western Australia Australia Acts (Request) Act 1985 An Act to enable the constitutional arrangements affecting the Commonwealth and the States to be brought into conformity with the status of the Commonwealth of Australia as a sovereign, independent and federal nation. Preamble 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 it has been agreed that the Parliament of the Commonwealth at the request of the Parliaments of the States in pursuance of section 51(xxxviii) of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia should enact an Act in the terms of the First Schedule: and whereas it has been agreed that each State should request and consent to the enactment by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of an Act in the terms of the Schedule to the Act contained in the Second Schedule: and whereas it has been agreed that the Parliament of the Commonwealth with the concurrence of all the States should enact an Act requesting and consenting to the enactment by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of an Act in the terms of the Schedule to the Act contained in the Second Schedule: [Preamble amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 50.] Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —