AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ORDINANCE (No. 2) 1972

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 41 of 1972

	The main purpose of this Ordinance is to amend the Seat of Government (Administration) Ordinance 1930-1972 (the principal Ordinance) so as to take account of a rearrangement of Ministerial functions with respect to the Australian Capital Territory.

	In section 10 of the principal Ordinance, prescribing the Ministers who are to administer the various Ordinances of the Australian Capital Territory, this Ordinance substitutes references to the new Ministers for –

•	the Capital Territory and
•	Education

for the existing references to, respectively, the Ministers for –

•	the Interior and
•	Education and Science.

	This Ordinance also amends Part I of the Second Schedule to the principal Ordinance so as to vest responsibility in the Attorney-General for Ordinances relating to censorship and the police.  (Responsibility for these Ordinances is vested by the principal Ordinance in the Minister for the Interior.)

	It also amends Part IV of the Second Schedule to the principal Ordinance so as to substitute a reference to the new Minister for Education for the existing reference to the Minister for Education and Science.