Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REMOVAL OF PRISONERS (TERRITORIES) ACT 1923 - SECT 2A

  (1)   Where there is no office of Administrator in respect of a Territory, the Governor - General may, by order published in the Gazette :

  (a)   declare that an office specified in the order shall, for the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to that Territory, be substituted for the office of Administrator; or

  (b)   authorize a person named in the order to exercise and perform, in relation to that Territory, the powers and functions of an Administrator under this Act.

  (2)   A reference in this Act to the Administrator of a Territory shall, in relation to a Territory in respect of which an order is in force under the last preceding subsection, be read as a reference to:

  (a)   the person occupying, or acting in, the office specified in the order; or

  (b)   the person named in the order;

as the case may be.