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For a first election, the nomination-day timing rule depends on a publication event that the prescribed first-election path does not produce.
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Subject to subregulation (2), the Board must cause a notice of an election to be published in the Government Gazette.
For the purposes of the first election of a person described in section 150(2)(c) or (d) of the Act, the Minister must cause a notice of an election to be published in the Government Gazette.
The nomination day must be a working day that is at least 14 days after the day on which the notice of the election is published under subregulation (1).
The form does not provide a truthful special-witness certification for the expressly permitted branch where another witness attends remotely but the special witness is physically present.
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Note: under section 5A of the **Powers of Attorney Act 2014**, one or more of the witnesses may witness the signing of the instrument by audio visual link.
• I witnessed the signing of this enduring power of attorney by audio visual link in accordance with the remote witnessing procedure set out in section 5A of the **Powers of Attorney Act 2014**; and
the special witness must sign this enduring power of attorney last (following the principal and other witnesses), regardless of whether the special witness is physically present; and
A natural person holding a current health care card can simultaneously satisfy both fee-payer definitions, producing inconsistent fee amounts.
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***concession fee payer*** means a person who holds a current health care card within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth at the time a fee is payable;
***standard fee payer*** means—
(a) a natural person other than a natural person acting in the capacity of a statutory office holder;
(3) For a standard fee payer, the fee for an item specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 is the corresponding fee in column 4 of that Schedule.
(4) For a concession fee payer, the fee for an item specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 is the corresponding fee in column 5 of that Schedule.
The disposal deadline can become retrospectively impossible where a copy ceases to be required for court proceedings more than 30 days after it was made.
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If a copy was made of a recording taken by an onboard system and it is not required for use in court proceedings
Section 34’s direction limb combines a section 33 direction with a destination that section 33 does not authorise, and its operative protection does not cover compliance with a direction.
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the request is made to the chief officer of an issuing agency in the ACT; and
This section applies if the chief officer of an issuing agency produces evidence of an assumed identity because of a request mentioned in section 32.
(2) The chief officer of the issuing agency must cancel the evidence if given a written direction to do so by the chief officer of a law enforcement
This section applies if the chief officer of a law enforcement agency makes a request under section 31 of, or gives a direction under section 33 to, the chief officer of an issuing agency of a participating jurisdiction.
Radioactive material at or below 40 GBq satisfies both descriptions, but the rows prescribe different fees: 10/19/27 fee units and 20/38/54 fee units for 1/2/3 years respectively. The second row contains no lower bound or exception resolving the overlap.
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(i) one year—the fee unit specified in Column 2 of Schedule 7 opposite that source; or
| Possession of radioactive material with a total activity of less than or equal to 40 GBq | 10 fee units | 19 fee units | 27 fee units |
The definition of “prescribed fee” retains a cross-reference to repealed section 3AB.
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prescribed fee means a fee prescribed under section 3AB.
The regulations may prescribe fees for this Act.
Despite the repeal of section 3AB by the Statute Law Revision and Repeals Act 2019, any fees prescribed under section 3AB of the Act as in force immediately before the commencement of that Act continue in force until fees are prescribed in the regulations.
The provision refers to itself as both the displaced rule and the source of a notice requirement that it does not create.
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Notwithstanding by-law 7, a matter for which notice under that by-law has not been given may be considered at an ordinary meeting where a motion is passed by the majority of members at the meeting permitting it to be considered.
Section 25(1)(a) makes receipt of a notice under section 34(1) the trigger for returning a cancelled licence, but section 34 has no subsection (1) and only defines “reviewable decision”. It creates no notice. Section 34A separately requires reviewable decision notices. The stated trigger therefore cannot occur as written.
Source evidence
the licensee receives a notice under section 34 (1) of the cancellation of the licence for a place;
In this part:
reviewable decision means a decision mentioned in schedule 1, column 3 under a provision of this Act mentioned in column 2 in relation to the decision.
If the Minister makes a reviewable decision, the Minister must give a reviewable decision notice to each entity mentioned in schedule 1, column 4 in relation to the decision.
The form lacks a truthful special-witness certification for the expressly permitted branch where another witness attends remotely but the special witness is physically present.
Source evidence
Note: under section 5A of the **Powers of Attorney Act 2014**, one or more of the witnesses may witness the signing of the instrument by audio visual link.
• I witnessed the signing of this instrument of revocation by audio visual link in accordance with the remote witnessing procedure set out in section 5A of the **Powers of Attorney Act 2014**; and
• the special witness must sign this instrument of revocation last (following the principal and other witnesses), regardless of whether the special witness is physically present; and
The form does not provide a truthful special-witness certification for the expressly permitted branch where the other witness attends remotely but the special witness is physically present.
Source evidence
Note: under section 5A of the **Powers of Attorney Act 2014**, one or more of the witnesses may witness the signing of the instrument by audio visual link.
I witnessed the signing of this supportive attorney appointment by audio visual link in accordance with the remote witnessing procedure set out in section 5A of the **Powers of Attorney Act 2014**; and
the special witness must sign this supportive attorney appointment last (following the principal and other witness) regardless of whether the special witness is physically present; and
| Possession of radioactive material with a total activity of less than or equal to 400 GBq | 20 fee units | 38 fee units | 54 fee units |