AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ORDINANCE 1968

Explanatory Memorandum

No. 1 of 1968

	Section 10 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Ordinance was amended in 1959 to provide that the Ordinances specified in Part I of the Second Schedule should be administered by the Attorney-General, the Ordinances in Part 2 by the Minister for Health and those in Part 3 by the Treasurer.  Section 10 also provides that all Ordinances made after 1959 shall be administered by the Minister for the Interior unless the contrary intention is shown in the Ordinance.  Due to omission in the drafting process, some new Ordinances made since 1959 and administered by the Attorney-General and the Minister for Health have not included an appropriate provision as was intended.

	Thus to make readily ascertainable the identity of the Minister responsible for the administration of an Ordinance, the Second Schedule to the Ordinance has been amended to include the Ordinances administered by the Attorney-General and the Minister for Health which have been made since 1959.

	The citations of all the Ordinances in the Schedule have also been updated to 1 January 1968.