AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

POLICE ORDINANCE 1972

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 22 of 1972

	The proposed Police Ordinance 1972 will effect a purely formal amendment to the Police Ordinance 1927-1970 which establishes and constitutes the Police Arbitral Tribunal.  The amendment is consequential upon recent amendments to the Seat of Government (Administration) Act which was amended in association with the recent amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.

	In effect, the proposed Ordinance will replace existing references to a Conciliation Commissioner by references to a Conciliation Commissioner by references to a Conciliation and Arbitration Commissioner.  It will also provide for the continuing in office of the present Chairman of the Police Arbitral Tribunal.

         R.J.H.
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