AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

NATIONAL MEMORIALS ORDINANCE 1952.

No. 6 of 1952

	The National Memorials Ordinance 1928-1937 is being amended to give effect to revised procedure for the naming of public places in Canberra, and for prescribing the principles laid down in the report in regard to the naming of Canberra streets and suburbs presented to Parliament by the National Memorials Committee on 8th December, 1927 – adopted by Parliament in March, 1928.

	The new procedure will be:—

	(1)	The Minister will be empowered to determine the nomenclature of 				public places in Canberra.

	(2)	The determination will be notified in the Gazette and will come into 			effect on such notification.

	(3)	Objections may be lodged within twenty-one days of such notification.

	(4)	Any such objection will be referred to the National Memorials 				Committee for decision but, notwithstanding any such 				objection, the determination will remain operative pending a 			decision of the Committee.

	(5)	The Committee will have power to confirm, revoke or vary the 				determination, and its decision will be notified in the Gazette 			and become operative on gazettal.

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