AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

	Statutory Appointments (Amendment) Act 1996
No. 52 of 1996
	
An Act to amend the Statutory Appointments Act 1994
	[Notified in ACT Gazette S247: 8 October 1996]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Statutory Appointments (Amendment) Act  1996.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
Principal Act
3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Statutory Appointments Act 1994.1
Consultation regarding appointments
4.  Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from subparagraph (1) (a) (ii) “and”;
	(b)	by inserting after paragraph (1) (a) the following paragraph:
	“(ab)	not make such an appointment until—
	(i)	a recommendation made by that committee has been received; or
	(ii)	30 days have elapsed since the consultation took place;
whichever first occurs; and”; and
	(c)	by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “recommendation  made by that committee following that consultation” and substituting “such recommendation”.
	
NOTE
Principal Act
1.	Act No. 32, 1994.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 15 May 1996]

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