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INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1993

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (10.42): Madam Speaker, I present the Interpretation (Amendment) Bill 1993.

Title read by Clerk.

MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, this Bill makes some technical changes to our Interpretation Act to enable an invalid provision of an Act to be severed from the rest of the Act, to bring ourselves into line with other States. I move:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

I ask for leave to have my speech incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

Speech incorporated at Appendix 8.

MR CONNOLLY: I present an explanatory memorandum to the Bill.

Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.

INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1993

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (10.42): Madam Speaker, I present the Interpretation (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1993.

Title read by Clerk.

MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, this Bill will incorporate in our Interpretation Act the principle of the High Court in the Bropho decision that all Acts bind the Crown in right of the ACT unless specifically excluded. I move:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

I ask for leave to have my speech incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

Speech incorporated at Appendix 9.

MR CONNOLLY: I present an explanatory memorandum to the Bill.

Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.


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