AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

INTERPRETATION ORDINANCE 1972

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 18 of 1972

	Section 14 of the Interpretation Ordinance 1967 provides that, in an Ordinance, the expression ‘Commonwealth country’ means the countries specified in the Schedule to the Ordinance.

	The purpose of the Interpretation Ordinance 1972 is to add to the Schedule the names of several countries that have achieved independence within the British Commonwealth.  The countries to be added to the Schedule are –

•	Fiji

•	Mauritius

•	Republic of Nauru

•	Swaziland

•	Kingdom of Tonga

•	Western Samoa.