Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 8GA

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   the Minister directs, under paragraph   8G(3)(a), that all the powers of a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority ) under an applied Western Australian law are vested in another person or authority; or

  (b)   the Minister delegates to a person or authority, under paragraph   8G(3)(b), all the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority ) under an applied Western Australian law; or

  (c)   a person or authority delegates to another person or authority, under subsection   8 G(5), all of the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority ) under an applied Western Australian law.

Addition of powers

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the applied Western Australian law is amended to give the first mentioned person or authority one or more additional powers under the law; and

  (b)   the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;

then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the additional powers.

Alteration of powers

  (3)   If:

  (a)   the applied Western Australian law is amended to alter the scope of one or more of the powers of the first mentioned person or authority under the law; and

  (b)   the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;

then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the powers as altered.

Amendments of applied Western Australian laws

  (4)   An applied Western Australian law is amended if:

  (a)   the applied Western Australian law is amended by an Ordinance; or

  (b)   the corresponding Western Australian law is amended.