Australian Capital Territory
Acts Revision Act 1937    (repealed)
A1937-27
Republication No 1
Effective:  5 March 1996
Republication date: 25 October 2007
As repealed by A1996-1 sch

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

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The republished law
This is a republication of the Acts Revision Act 1937 (repealed) effective 5 March 1996.
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Australian Capital Territory
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Repealed by No. 1, 1996 (in force 4 March 1996)
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1.	Short title and citation
	2.	Amendment of Acts
Schedule
Amendment of Acts

An Act for the Revision and Amendment of certain Acts of the Territory for the Seat of Government
Short title and citation
1.  (1)  This Act may be cited as the Acts Revision Act 1937.1
Amendment of Acts
2.2  The Acts specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act are amended as respectively specified in the second column of the Schedule.

	Schedule	Section 2
Amendment of Acts

NOTES
1.	The Acts Revision Act 1937 (a) as shown in this reprint comprises Act No. 27, 1937 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989  (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.
Table 1
Table of Ordinances
Ordinance	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1937	27, 1937	23 Dec 1937	23 Dec 1937		
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1959 	21, 1959	23 Dec 1959	31 Dec 1959	—	
Self-Government day 11 May 1989
Table 2
Table of Acts
Act	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Statute Law Revision (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992	23, 1992	4 June 1992	4 June 1992	—	
as repealed by
Law Reform (Abolitions and Repeals) Act 1996	1996 No 1	notified 4 Mar 1996 (Gaz 1996 No S31)	4 Mar 1996 (s 2)		
(a)	The Acts Revision Act 1937 was also amended by the Seat of Government (Designation) Ordinance 1938 (No. 25, 1938) as amended by the Ordinances Revision Ordinances 1938 and 1959 (No. 35, 1938 and No. 21, 1959).
	Section 2 of the Seat of Government (Designation) Ordinance 1938, as amended, provides as follows:
	   “2.  Where, in any Ordinance, not being an Ordinance specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance, or in any regulation or rule made under an Ordinance, the words ‘Territory for the Seat of Government’ or ‘Territory for the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth’ or ‘Territory for the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth of Australia’ or ‘Federal Capital Territory’ appear, the Ordinance, regulation or rule (as the case may be) is amended by omitting those words and inserting in their stead the words ‘Australian Capital Territory’.”.
	The amendments have been incorporated in this reprint but do not appear in the Table of Amendments.

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

Ss. 1, 2	am. Act No. 23, 1992
S. 3	rep. No. 21, 1959
Heading to The Schedules  rep. Act No. 23, 1992
The First Schedule	rep. Act No. 23, 1992
Heading to the Second	rep. Act No. 23, 1992
   Schedule
Heading to Schedule	ad. Act No. 23, 1992
The Third Schedule	rep. No. 21, 1959

2.	S. 2—The amendments made by section 2 were amendments to other Acts which are reprinted separately.

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