AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ADVISORY COUNCIL ORDINANCE 1961

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 20 of 1961

	This Ordinance increases the term for which elected members of the Advisory Council will hold office from two years to three years.

	Section 3 of the proposed Ordinance provides that the increased term will not affect the elected members of the Council holding office before the commencement of the Ordinance but that the amendment will apply to the members elected at the Advisory Council elections scheduled for September, 1961.