{"id":"C1958A00041","name":"Christmas Island Act 1958","slug":"christmas-island-act-1958","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"41 of 1958","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":1424,"registerId":"C2021C00068","compilationNumber":"13","startDate":"2020-12-18","status":"InForce","reasons":[{"affect":"Amend","markdown":"sch 1 (items 1-26) of the [Territories Legislation Amendment Act 2020](/C2020A00154)","dateChanged":null,"amendedByTitle":null,"affectedByTitle":{"name":"Territories Legislation Amendment Act 2020","year":2020,"number":154,"titleId":"C2020A00154","provisions":"sch 1 (items 1-26)","seriesType":"Act","optionalSeriesNumber":null}}],"registeredAt":"2021-02-04T14:42:17.190Z"},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Part I","sectionType":"part","heading":"Preliminary","content":"## Part I—Preliminary","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"#### 1 Short title\n\n This Act may be cited as the Christmas Island Act 1958.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"#### 2 Commencement\n\n (1) Part I shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n (2) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.\n (3) The date so fixed shall be the date on which Christmas Island is placed under the authority of the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Imperial Act entitled the Christmas Island Act, 1958.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Interpretation","content":"#### 4 Interpretation\n\n (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\n> amended: for when an applied Western Australian law is amended, see subsection 8GA(4).\n\n> applied Western Australian law means a Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under section 8A.\n\n> authority includes a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose.\n\n> Christmas Island means the Island of that name situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 10˚30´ south and longitude 105˚40´ east.\n\n> constable means:\n\n (a) a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or\n (b) an officer or special officer of the police force of the Territory.\n\n> court officer of Western Australia means a person holding, or performing the functions or duties of, any of the following offices:\n\n (a) any of the following offices in a court of Western Australia:\n (i) Judge;\n (ii) Magistrate (however described);\n (iii) Master;\n (iv) Registrar (however described);\n (v) Clerk (however described);\n (vi) Sheriff (however described);\n (vii) Bailiff (however described); or\n (b) any of the following offices in the Family Court of Western Australia:\n (i) Marshal;\n (ii) Director of Court Counselling;\n (iii) Collector of Maintenance; or\n (c) the office of Chairman, Deputy Chairman or nominee member of the Worker’s Compensation Board of Western Australia; or\n (d) any other office in respect of a court of Western Australia, being an office specified in the regulations.\n\n> court of Western Australia means any of the following courts or tribunals:\n\n (a) the Supreme Court of Western Australia;\n (b) the District Court of Western Australia;\n (c) the Family Court of Western Australia;\n (d) a Court of Petty Sessions of Western Australia;\n (e) a Local Court of Western Australia;\n (f) a coroners’ court of Western Australia;\n (g) the Children’s Court of Western Australia;\n (h) the Workers’ Compensation Board of Western Australia;\n (i) any other court or tribunal specified in the regulations.\n\n> jurisdiction includes powers.\n\n> laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory means the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7.\n\n> Ordinance means an Ordinance made under this Act.\n\n> power includes a function or duty, and, in that context exercise means perform.\n\n> prison includes a lock‑up or other place of lawful detention.\n\n> Registrar means the Registrar, or the Deputy Registrar, of the Supreme Court.\n\n> Sheriff means the Sheriff, or a Deputy Sheriff, of the Territory.\n\n> State includes a Territory other than the Territory.\n\n> the police force of the Territory includes any police force empowered to provide police services under a law in force in the Territory.\n\n> the proclaimed date means the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(2).\n\n> the Supreme Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n> the Territory means the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n> Western Australian law: see subsection 8A(6).\n\n (2) In this Act, a reference to an Act is a reference to the whole or a part of that Act, or to the whole or a part of a law made under that Act.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"4A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Application of the Criminal Code","content":"#### 4A Application of the Criminal Code\n\n (1) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code applies to all offences created by this Act.\n\n> Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.\n\n (2) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code does not apply in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, a law in force in the Territory because of section 8A.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Part II","sectionType":"part","heading":"Acceptance of Christmas Island","content":"## Part II—Acceptance of Christmas Island","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Acceptance of Christmas Island","content":"#### 5 Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n Christmas Island is declared to be accepted by the Commonwealth as a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth and shall be known as the Territory of Christmas Island.","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"6","sectionType":"section","heading":"Transfer of rights, liabilities etc. to Commonwealth","content":"#### 6 Transfer of rights, liabilities etc. to Commonwealth\n\n (1) All property, rights and powers in or in connexion with Christmas Island which, immediately before the proclaimed date, were held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Queen in right of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, or by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, shall, from and including that date, be deemed to be held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), all liabilities and obligations incurred before the proclaimed date by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of the Colony of Singapore or the Government of the Colony of Christmas Island in or in connexion with Christmas Island and subsisting immediately before that date shall, from and including that date, be deemed to have been incurred by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to or in relation to liabilities or obligations of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Singapore for or in respect of:\n (a) the servicing or repayment of public loans raised by the Government of the Colony of Singapore;\n (b) the payment of pensions or retiring allowances in respect of service in Christmas Island;\n (c) the repayment of deposits with the Christmas Island branch of the Post Office Savings Bank of the Colony of Singapore or interest on those deposits; or\n (d) the meeting of deficiencies in assets of the Central Provident Fund of the Colony of Singapore required by the Central Provident Fund Ordinance of that Colony to be met out of the general revenues of that Colony.\n (4) In this section, property includes movable and immovable property.","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"Part III","sectionType":"part","heading":"Laws and Legislative Powers","content":"AND WHEREAS by the Constitution it is provided that the Parliament may make laws for the government of any territory placed by the Queen under the authority of and accepted by the Commonwealth:\n\nBE it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\n## Part I—Preliminary\n\n#### 1 Short title\n\n This Act may be cited as the Christmas Island Act 1958.\n\n#### 2 Commencement\n\n (1) Part I shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n (2) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.\n (3) The date so fixed shall be the date on which Christmas Island is placed under the authority of the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Imperial Act entitled the Christmas Island Act, 1958.\n\n#### 4 Interpretation\n\n (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\n> amended: for when an applied Western Australian law is amended, see subsection 8GA(4).\n\n> applied Western Australian law means a Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under section 8A.\n\n> authority includes a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose.\n\n> Christmas Island means the Island of that name situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 10˚30´ south and longitude 105˚40´ east.\n\n> constable means:\n\n (a) a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or\n (b) an officer or special officer of the police force of the Territory.\n\n> court officer of Western Australia means a person holding, or performing the functions or duties of, any of the following offices:\n\n (a) any of the following offices in a court of Western Australia:\n (i) Judge;\n (ii) Magistrate (however described);\n (iii) Master;\n (iv) Registrar (however described);\n (v) Clerk (however described);\n (vi) Sheriff (however described);\n (vii) Bailiff (however described); or\n (b) any of the following offices in the Family Court of Western Australia:\n (i) Marshal;\n (ii) Director of Court Counselling;\n (iii) Collector of Maintenance; or\n (c) the office of Chairman, Deputy Chairman or nominee member of the Worker’s Compensation Board of Western Australia; or\n (d) any other office in respect of a court of Western Australia, being an office specified in the regulations.\n\n> court of Western Australia means any of the following courts or tribunals:\n\n (a) the Supreme Court of Western Australia;\n (b) the District Court of Western Australia;\n (c) the Family Court of Western Australia;\n (d) a Court of Petty Sessions of Western Australia;\n (e) a Local Court of Western Australia;\n (f) a coroners’ court of Western Australia;\n (g) the Children’s Court of Western Australia;\n (h) the Workers’ Compensation Board of Western Australia;\n (i) any other court or tribunal specified in the regulations.\n\n> jurisdiction includes powers.\n\n> laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory means the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7.\n\n> Ordinance means an Ordinance made under this Act.\n\n> power includes a function or duty, and, in that context exercise means perform.\n\n> prison includes a lock‑up or other place of lawful detention.\n\n> Registrar means the Registrar, or the Deputy Registrar, of the Supreme Court.\n\n> Sheriff means the Sheriff, or a Deputy Sheriff, of the Territory.\n\n> State includes a Territory other than the Territory.\n\n> the police force of the Territory includes any police force empowered to provide police services under a law in force in the Territory.\n\n> the proclaimed date means the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(2).\n\n> the Supreme Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n> the Territory means the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n> Western Australian law: see subsection 8A(6).\n\n (2) In this Act, a reference to an Act is a reference to the whole or a part of that Act, or to the whole or a part of a law made under that Act.\n\n#### 4A Application of the Criminal Code\n\n (1) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code applies to all offences created by this Act.\n\n> Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.\n\n (2) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code does not apply in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, a law in force in the Territory because of section 8A.\n\n## Part II—Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n#### 5 Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n Christmas Island is declared to be accepted by the Commonwealth as a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth and shall be known as the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n#### 6 Transfer of rights, liabilities etc. to Commonwealth\n\n (1) All property, rights and powers in or in connexion with Christmas Island which, immediately before the proclaimed date, were held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Queen in right of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, or by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, shall, from and including that date, be deemed to be held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), all liabilities and obligations incurred before the proclaimed date by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of the Colony of Singapore or the Government of the Colony of Christmas Island in or in connexion with Christmas Island and subsisting immediately before that date shall, from and including that date, be deemed to have been incurred by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to or in relation to liabilities or obligations of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Singapore for or in respect of:\n (a) the servicing or repayment of public loans raised by the Government of the Colony of Singapore;\n (b) the payment of pensions or retiring allowances in respect of service in Christmas Island;\n (c) the repayment of deposits with the Christmas Island branch of the Post Office Savings Bank of the Colony of Singapore or interest on those deposits; or\n (d) the meeting of deficiencies in assets of the Central Provident Fund of the Colony of Singapore required by the Central Provident Fund Ordinance of that Colony to be met out of the general revenues of that Colony.\n (4) In this section, property includes movable and immovable property.\n\n## Part III—Laws and Legislative Powers\n\n### Division 1—Laws of the Territory\n\n#### 7 The laws of the Territory\n\n (1) On and after 1 July 1992, the laws in force in the Territory from time to time are:\n (a) Acts as in force from time to time in or in relation to the Territory on and after that day; and\n (b) Ordinances made on or after that day as in force from time to time; and\n (c) laws as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8; and\n (d) applied Western Australian laws.\n (2) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not prevent any other law, including a law of a State, from applying in the Territory of its own force.\n\n#### 8 Operation of existing laws etc.\n\n (1) A law in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 is repealed unless it is specified in the Schedule.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), a law that is specified in the Schedule (including any instruments made under that law) as in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 continues to be in force in the Territory on and after that day.\n (3) A law specified in the Schedule may be amended or repealed by an Ordinance.\n (4) In this section:\n\n> instruments includes regulations, rules and by‑laws.\n\n> law:\n\n (a) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity; and\n (b) does not include an Act.\n\n#### 8A Application of Western Australian laws\n\n (1) Subject to this section, section 8G and Part IVA, Western Australian laws are in force in the Territory.\n\n> Note: A Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under this section is an applied Western Australian law (see the definition in subsection 4(1)).\n\n (2) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it may be incorporated, amended or repealed by an Ordinance or a law made under an Ordinance.\n (3) An Ordinance may suspend the operation in the Territory of a law in force in the Territory under subsection (1) for such period as is specified in the Ordinance.\n (4) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it has no effect so far as it is inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance.\n (5) For the purpose of subsection (4), a law is consistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance if the law is capable of operating concurrently with it.\n (6) A Western Australian law:\n (a) is a law in force in Western Australia from time to time; and\n (b) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity that is part of the law of Western Australia; and\n (c) does not include:\n (i) a Commonwealth Act or a provision of a Commonwealth Act; or\n (ii) an instrument (however described) made under a Commonwealth Act, or a provision of such an instrument.\n\n#### 8B Minister must table lists of applied Western Australian Acts\n\n (1) The Minister must cause a list of Acts of the Western Australian Parliament (WA Acts) to be prepared and tabled in each House of the Parliament for the following periods:\n (a) the period of 3 months beginning on 1 July 1992; and\n (b) each subsequent period of 6 months.\n (2) The list must specify the names of all WA Acts that are wholly or partly in force in the Territory under section 8A on the day specified in the list, and have not been specified in a previous list under this section. The specified day must be not more than 14 days before the day on which the list is to be tabled.\n (3) The list must include WA Acts whose operation has been suspended in accordance with subsection 8A(3).\n (4) The list must be tabled in each House of the Parliament before the end of the period to which the list relates. However, if the House concerned does not sit during any day in the last month of the period, the list may be tabled in that House within the next 15 sitting days of that House.\n\n#### 8C House may terminate application of Western Australian Acts in the Territory\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> terminate means terminate the operation of a WA Act in the Territory.\n\n> WA Act means an Act of the Western Australian Parliament that is specified in a list tabled under section 8B, or part of such an Act.\n\n> WA Acts list means a list prepared and tabled in a House of the Parliament under section 8B.\n\n (2) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to terminate the WA Act;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the time when the resolution was passed.\n (3) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the notice was given:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the expiration of that period of 15 sitting days.\n (4) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act specified in a WA Acts list has been given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House):\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n subsections (2) and (3) apply as if the WA Acts list had been tabled in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) The termination of a WA Act under subsection (2) or (3) has the same effect as the repeal of that WA Act, as a law of the Territory, by an Ordinance.\n (6) If:\n (a) a WA Act (the terminated Act) is terminated under subsection (2) or (3); and\n (b) the terminated Act repealed, in whole or in part, another WA Act or any other law that was in force in the Territory immediately before the terminated Act came into force in the Territory under section 8A;\n the termination of the terminated Act has the effect of reviving that other WA Act or law from and including the date of the termination, as if the terminated Act had not come into force in the Territory.\n (7) A notice of a motion, or a resolution, for the purposes of this section may relate to the termination of more than one WA Act.\n\n#### 8D Extension of period for giving notice of motion to terminate WA Act\n\n (1) This section provides for an extension of time for giving a notice of a motion (the termination notice) in a House of the Parliament to terminate one or more WA Acts that are specified in the first WA Acts list that is required by section 8A to be tabled in that House.\n (2) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to extend the period;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (3) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice has been given in that House:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (4) If a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House) for the purpose of obtaining an extension under subsection (2) or (3) but, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice is given:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the extension notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the following provisions apply:\n (c) the extension notice is taken to have been given in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation;\n (d) the termination notice may be given in that House within the first 15 sitting days of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) In this section, terminate, WA Act and WA Acts list have the same meanings as in section 8C.\n\n#### 8E Application of Commonwealth Acts\n\n (1) An Act (whether passed before or after this section’s commencement) extends to the Territory of its own force except so far as the Act or another Act expressly provides otherwise.\n (2) Except as provided by this Act, an Ordinance has no effect so far as it purports to affect the application of an Act in or in relation to the Territory.\n\n#### 8G Powers under the applied Western Australian laws\n\n (1) If, by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in:\n (a) a Minister of Western Australia; or\n (b) the Governor of Western Australia; or\n (c) the Governor‑in‑Council of Western Australia;\n that power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.\n (2) If:\n (a) by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in a person (other than a court officer of Western Australia) or an authority (other than a court of Western Australia); and\n (b) subsection (1) does not apply to that power;\n the power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.\n (2A) To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a power vested in a person or authority by an applied Western Australian law does not include a reference to a power so vested, whether directly or indirectly, because of an Ordinance made for the purposes of subsection 8A(2).\n\n> Note: Under subsection 8A(2), an Ordinance may provide for the incorporation, amendment or repeal of an applied Western Australian law.\n\n Delegation etc.\n (3) If a power is vested in the Minister under subsection (1) or (2), the Minister may, in writing:\n (a) direct that the power is also vested in a person or authority; or\n (b) delegate the power to a person or authority.\n (4) A direction or delegation under subsection (3) is subject to such conditions as may be specified:\n (a) in the direction or delegation; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—in writing, by the Minister.\n (5) A person or authority in whom a power is vested by a direction under paragraph (3)(a) may delegate the power, in writing, to another person or authority:\n (a) if authorised to do so by the direction; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—if authorised to do so, in writing, by the Minister.\n Deemed vesting of powers—Western Australian persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5A) If a power is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in another person or authority in the circumstances that:\n (a) the person or authority is subject to an arrangement under section 8H and is:\n (i) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (ii) an authority established by or under a Western Australian law; or\n (iii) an officer or employee of such an authority; and\n (b) the power corresponds to a power that the person or authority is authorised, under a Western Australian law, to exercise in, or in a part of, Western Australia:\n (i) whether in the person’s or authority’s own right; or\n (ii) whether in the capacity of a delegate; or\n (iii) whether in any other way.\n Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5B) If a power mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in a person or authority mentioned in column 2 of the item.\n\n```html\n

Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island

Item

Column 1

Column 2

1

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police force (however described)

The Australian Federal Police

2

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police officer (however described) holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position

A member or special member of the Australian Federal Police holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position in the Territory

3

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a body (a local government body) responsible for local government under such a law

The Christmas Island Shire

4

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position on or with a local government body

A person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position on or with the Christmas Island Shire

5

A power that corresponds to a power, vested by a Western Australian law, that is prescribed by an Ordinance for the purposes of this item

A person or authority prescribed by that Ordinance

\n```\n\n (6) The Minister may, in writing, direct that subsection (5A) or (5B) does not apply to a specified power.\n (7) A direction under subsection (6) may be unconditional or subject to such conditions (if any) as are specified in the direction.\n Other matters\n (8) An instrument under this section may identify a power by reference to a class of powers.\n (9) The validity of the exercise of a power under an applied Western Australian law by a person or authority under this section is unaffected by the failure of the person or authority to hold a qualification required of a person or authority exercising that power under a Western Australian law.\n (10) This section does not affect the operation of section 8A in relation to the application in or in relation to the Territory of a law (a subordinate law) made under a Western Australian law, whether the subordinate law is made after this section’s commencement or not.\n (10A) Subject to any direction or delegation under this section, if a power vested by an applied Western Australian law in a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) is vested in another person or authority under this section, each reference in any applied Western Australian law to the first mentioned person or authority is taken to include a reference to the other person or authority.\n (11) An instrument under this section is not a legislative instrument.\n\n#### 8GA Applied Western Australian laws—effect of directions or delegations\n\n Scope\n (1) This section applies if:\n (a) the Minister directs, under paragraph 8G(3)(a), that all the powers of a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law are vested in another person or authority; or\n (b) the Minister delegates to a person or authority, under paragraph 8G(3)(b), all the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law; or\n (c) a person or authority delegates to another person or authority, under subsection 8G(5), all of the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law.\n Addition of powers\n (2) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to give the first mentioned person or authority one or more additional powers under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the additional powers.\n Alteration of powers\n (3) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to alter the scope of one or more of the powers of the first mentioned person or authority under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the powers as altered.\n Amendments of applied Western Australian laws\n (4) An applied Western Australian law is amended if:\n (a) the law is amended by an Ordinance; or\n (b) the corresponding Western Australian law is amended.\n\n#### 8H Arrangements with the Government of Western Australia\n\n (1) The Commonwealth may enter into arrangements with Western Australia for the effective application and administration of the laws in force in the Territory.\n (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), such an arrangement may provide for the exercise of powers by:\n (a) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (b) an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law; or\n (c) an officer or employee of an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law;\n in or in relation to the Territory.\n\n#### 8I Savings\n\n (1) The repeal of a law of the Territory by subsection 8(1) does not:\n (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time of the repeal; or\n (b) affect the previous operation of the law, or anything duly done under or permitted by the law; or\n (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the law; or\n (d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the law; or\n (e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment.\n (2) In spite of the repeal, the law continues in force for the purposes of:\n (a) the institution or continuation of any investigation or legal proceeding mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (b) the enforcement of any remedy mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (c) the imposition of any penalty, forfeiture or punishment mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).\n\n### Division 2—Legislative Powers of the Governor‑General\n\n#### 9 Legislative powers of the Governor‑General\n\n (1) Subject to this Act, the Governor‑General may make Ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the Territory.\n (2) Notice of the making of an Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette, and an Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance, come into operation on the date of publication of the notice.\n\n#### 10 Tabling of Ordinances in Parliament\n\n (1) Every Ordinance shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Ordinance is made and, if it is not so laid before each House of the Parliament, ceases to have effect.\n (2) If either House of the Parliament, in pursuance of a motion of which notice has been given within 15 sitting days after an Ordinance has been laid before that House, passes a resolution disallowing the Ordinance or a part of the Ordinance, the Ordinance or part so disallowed thereupon ceases to have effect.\n (3) If, at the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament, being notice given within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House:\n (a) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (b) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance or part, as the case may be, specified in the motion shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed.\n (3A) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance shall, for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), be deemed to have been laid before that first‑mentioned House on the first sitting day of that first‑mentioned House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be.\n (4) Where an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1), the disallowance of the Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the Ordinance, as the case may be, has the same effect as a repeal of the Ordinance.\n (4A) Where:\n (a) an Ordinance (in this subsection referred to as the relevant Ordinance) is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1); and\n (b) the relevant Ordinance repealed, in whole or in part, another Ordinance or any other law that was in force immediately before the relevant Ordinance came into operation;\n the disallowance of the relevant Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the relevant Ordinance, as the case may be, has the effect of reviving that other Ordinance or law, as the case may be, from and including the date of the disallowance or the date on which the relevant Ordinance ceased to have effect by virtue of that operation of subsection (1), as the case may be, as if the relevant Ordinance had not been made.\n (4B) A reference in subsection (4) or (4A) to an Ordinance shall be read as including a reference to a part of an Ordinance, and a reference in subsection (4A) to a law has a corresponding meaning.\n\n#### 10A Ordinance not to be re‑made while required to be tabled\n\n (1) Where an Ordinance (in this section called the original Ordinance) has been made, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the original Ordinance shall be made during the period defined by subsection (2) unless both Houses of the Parliament by resolution approve the making of an Ordinance containing a provision the same in substance as that provision of the original Ordinance.\n (2) The period referred to in subsection (1) is the period starting on the day on which the original Ordinance was made and ending at the end of 7 days after:\n (a) if the original Ordinance has been laid, in accordance with subsection 10(1), before both Houses of the Parliament on the same day—that day;\n (b) if the original Ordinance has been so laid before both Houses on different days—the later of those days; or\n (c) if the original Ordinance has not been so laid before both Houses—the last day on which subsection 10(1) could have been complied with.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n\n#### 10B Ordinance not to be re‑made while subject to disallowance\n\n (1) Where notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (a) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (b) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (c) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (d) subsection 10(3A) has applied in relation to the Ordinance.\n (2) Where:\n (a) because of subsection 10(3A), an Ordinance is deemed to have been laid before a House of the Parliament on a particular day; and\n (b) notice of a motion to disallow the Ordinance has been given in that House within 15 sitting days after that day;\n no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (c) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (d) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (e) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (f) subsection 10(3A) has applied again in relation to the Ordinance.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n (4) This section does not limit the operation of section 10A or 10C.\n (5) In this section:\n\n> Ordinance includes a part of an Ordinance.\n\n#### 10C Disallowed ordinance not to be re‑made unless resolution rescinded or House approves\n\n If an Ordinance or a part of an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under section 10, and an Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision so disallowed, or deemed to have been disallowed, is made within 6 months after the date of the disallowance, that provision has no effect, unless:\n (a) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, disallowed by resolution—the resolution has been rescinded by the House of the Parliament by which it was passed; or\n (b) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, deemed to have been disallowed—the House of the Parliament in which notice of the motion to disallow the Ordinance or part was given has approved, by resolution, the making of a provision the same in substance as the provision deemed to have been disallowed.\n\n#### 10D Regulations, rules and by‑laws\n\n (1) All regulations made under an Ordinance or any other law (not being an Act) in force in the Territory shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the regulations are made and, if they are not so laid before each House of the Parliament, have no effect.\n (1A) In subsection (1), a regulation made under a law in force in the Territory:\n (a) does not include a regulation of Western Australia as in force in the Territory under section 8A; and\n (b) includes a regulation made by a person or an authority empowered, under section 8G, to make the regulation under an applied Western Australian law.\n (2) Subsections 10(2) to (4B), inclusive, and sections 10A, 10B and 10C apply in relation to regulations laid before a House of the Parliament as if, in those provisions:\n (a) references to subsection 10(1) were references to subsection (1) of this section; and\n (b) references to an Ordinance were references to regulations; and\n (c) references to a provision of an Ordinance were references to a regulation.\n (3) In this section, regulations includes rules and by‑laws.\n\n## Part IV—The Judicial System\n\n#### 11 Supreme Court\n\n (1) There shall be a Supreme Court of the Territory, which shall be known as the Supreme Court of Christmas Island.\n (2) The Supreme Court shall be constituted as provided by Ordinance.\n (3) The Supreme Court is a superior court of record.\n\n#### 11AAA Minister may make arrangements with States\n\n The Minister may make arrangements with the government or an authority of a State for the purposes of the effective application of the provisions of this Act relating to sittings of the Supreme Court in that State in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction.\n\n#### 11AA Supreme Court may sit in a State\n\n (1) Subject to this section, the Supreme Court, in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, may sit in a State if to do so would not be contrary to the interests of justice.\n (2) The Supreme Court may, at any time after the presentation of an indictment for an offence against a law in force in the Territory and before the jury has returned its verdict, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order:\n (a) if the trial of the offence has not begun—that the trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order; and\n (b) if the trial of the offence has begun—that the trial be discontinued, the jury be discharged and a new trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order.\n (3) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in the Territory or in a State.\n (4) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in a State whether or not the accused is present but, if the accused is not present, the Court shall only make the order if:\n (a) the accused is represented; and\n (b) the Court is satisfied that the accused understands the effect of the order.\n (5) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (2), the Court may order that:\n (a) on the warrant of the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or such other person as the Supreme Court directs (being a person who holds an office in relation to the Court), the accused be removed to the place specified in the order, and held there, for the purposes of the trial of that person and for any related proceedings; and\n (b) on the summons of the Registrar, all persons required to attend to give evidence in the trial or proceedings attend at the place specified in the order.\n (6) When exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, the Supreme Court has, and may exercise, all the powers that it would have if it were exercising its criminal jurisdiction in the Territory.\n (7) A power exercised by the Supreme Court under subsection (6) shall be deemed to have been exercised by the Court at a sittings of the Court in the Territory.\n (8) Where the Supreme Court is sitting in a State for the purpose of a trial in that State, the Court may, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order that, for the purpose of viewing a place, or taking evidence from a person, in the Territory, or for a prescribed purpose:\n (a) the trial be adjourned for such time as the Court considers reasonable and necessary, and be continued in the Territory for so long as is necessary for that purpose;\n (b) on the warrant of the Registrar, the accused be returned to the Territory for the purposes of the continuation of the trial and any related proceedings; and\n (c) the jurors empanelled for the trial go to the Territory and remain there for such time as the Court directs for the purpose of continuing to attend as jurors in the trial.\n (9) A person who appears as a witness in the Supreme Court in a trial, or in related proceedings, held wholly or partly in a State, shall be paid by the Commonwealth such fees and allowances as would be payable to the person if the person had appeared as a witness in a trial held in the Territory.\n (10) Where:\n (a) the Supreme Court, when exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, makes an order, issues a warrant or summons or gives a judgment;\n (b) a person fails to comply with that order, warrant, summons or judgment; and\n (c) that failure would have constituted an offence against a law in force in the Territory if it had occurred there;\n the person commits an offence against this Act punishable by a penalty that is the same as the penalty for the offence referred to in paragraph (c).\n\n#### 11A Registries and Registrars\n\n Without limiting the provision that may otherwise be made by Ordinance in relation to the Supreme Court, provision may be made by Ordinance for or in relation to:\n (a) the establishment and operation of registries of that Court at places outside the Territory; and\n (b) where a power is conferred or imposed by law on a person who holds an office in relation to that Court—the exercise of that power at a place outside the Territory.\n\n#### 12 Jurisdiction etc. of the Supreme Court\n\n (1) Except as provided in this Part, the jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the Supreme Court shall be as provided by or under Ordinance.\n (2) The trial on indictment of an offence against a law in force in the Territory shall be by judge and jury.\n\n#### 12A Juries outside the Territory\n\n (1) Subject to this section and the regulations, the laws in force in a State relating to:\n (a) the qualification of jurors;\n (b) the preparation of jury lists and jury panels;\n (c) the summoning, attendance and empanelling of juries;\n (d) the number of jurors;\n (e) the right of challenge;\n (f) the discharge of juries;\n (g) the disagreement of jurors;\n (h) the remuneration of jurors; and\n (j) other matters concerning jurors (other than matters dealt with under section 12B) after they have been summoned, appointed or sworn;\n that apply for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of that State sitting at a place in that State, extend and shall be applied, with such changes as are necessary, for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of the Territory when sitting at that place.\n (2) For the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly at a place in a State, the jury list that would be used for the purposes of a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of that State sitting in the same place shall be used as well for the purposes of the trial in the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n (3) The precept for a jury shall be issued by the Registrar, or such other person holding an office in relation to the Supreme Court as the Court directs, and the Sheriff or such other person as the Court directs shall prepare the jury panels and summon jurors.\n (4) The person who has custody of the jury list referred to in subsection (2) in the State where the Supreme Court is holding a trial shall:\n (a) give a copy of that list to the person directed by the Court to prepare a jury panel; and\n (b) indicate on that copy the names of the persons who, to his or her knowledge, would not, if summoned at the time the copy is given, be liable to serve as jurors under the law in force in that State.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay such reasonable fee as may be demanded for a copy of a list referred to in paragraph (4)(a).\n (6) Any remuneration required to be paid to a person who serves, or is summoned to serve, on a jury in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall be paid by the Commonwealth.\n (7) Where a law applied by this Act for the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court requires an act or thing to be done by a person specified in that law, the Court may, if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of the effective application of the law, order that a person who holds a specified office in relation to the Court do that act or thing, and the law shall be deemed to apply to that person accordingly.\n (8) The regulations may provide that such provisions of a law referred to in subsection (1) as are specified in the regulations do not apply or apply subject to such modifications as are specified in the regulations.\n (9) In this section, jury list means the roll, list, or book on or in which the names of persons liable to serve as jurors appear.\n\n#### 12B Offences in relation to jurors\n\n (1) A person who is served with a summons to attend as a juror in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall not:\n (a) fail to attend in accordance with the summons; or\n (b) having so attended, withdraw from the presence of the Court, without the permission of the Sheriff, before being discharged or excused by a judge of the Court or the Sheriff.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 1 month or 2 penalty units.\n\n (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.\n\n> Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (1A) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).\n\n (2) A person shall not personate a person who is a juror with the intention of sitting on a jury.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units.\n\n (3) A person shall not:\n (a) engage in conduct that results in the corruption of a juror;\n (b) make or promise a payment to a juror, or confer or promise to confer any other benefit on a juror in relation to the person’s service as a juror, other than a payment of the ordinary remuneration of the juror’s employment; or\n (c) being a juror, accept such a payment or benefit.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.\n\n (4) In this section:\n\n> engage in conduct means:\n\n (a) do an act; or\n (b) omit to perform an act.\n\n> juror includes a person whose name is on a jury panel.\n\n## Part IVA—Conferral of Territory Jurisdiction on Western Australian courts etc.\n\n#### 14A Definitions\n\n In this Part:\n\n> Family Court of Western Australia means the Court established by the Family Court Act 1975 of Western Australia.\n\n> transfer day means the day on which this Part commences.\n\n#### 14B Conferral of jurisdiction on Western Australian courts and court officers\n\n (1) Subject to this Part and any law in force in the Territory, the courts and court officers of Western Australia have jurisdiction (including appellate jurisdiction) in and in relation to the Territory as if the Territory were part of Western Australia.\n (2) Subject to section 14E, a court or court officer of Western Australia may, in exercising jurisdiction under this section, sit in the Territory or Western Australia.\n (3) Subject to any law in force in the Territory, the practice and procedure applicable to a court or court officer exercising jurisdiction under this section are to be the practice and procedure as in force from time to time in relation to that court or court officer in Western Australia.\n\n#### 14C Transfer of Supreme Court jurisdiction\n\n (1) This section applies to the jurisdiction vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court immediately before the transfer day, except in relation to matters for which:\n (a) proceedings were pending in that Court immediately before that day; or\n (b) proceedings had been completed in that Court before that day.\n (2) On and after the transfer day, the jurisdiction:\n (a) ceases to be vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court; and\n (b) is vested in:\n (i) if the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (ii) if the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (iii) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires).\n\n#### 14D Transfer of pending proceedings\n\n (1) On and after the transfer day, the parties to proceedings in a matter pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory (Territory Court) may apply to that Court to transfer the proceedings to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (2) If the Territory Court decides that it is not contrary to the interests of justice to grant the application, the Court is to transfer the proceedings to the relevant Court (State Court) and:\n (a) the State Court may hear and determine the proceedings; and\n (b) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (c) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (d) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n\n#### 14E Application of provisions of this Act to courts of Western Australia\n\n In relation to the exercise of jurisdiction by the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge or an officer mentioned in this Part, sections 11AA, 12A, 12B, 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E and 18F have effect as if, in those provisions:\n (a) a reference to the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia or the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (b) a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia or of the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (c) a reference to a magistrate of the Territory included a reference to a magistrate (however described) of Western Australia who has jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under a law of the Territory; and\n (d) a reference to the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of a judge of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory; and\n (e) a reference to the Sheriff of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory.\n\n#### 14F Savings—jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the Territory on and after transfer day\n\n Part IVA of this Act as in force immediately before the transfer day continues in force in relation to any matter in respect of which the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court continues to have jurisdiction on or after that day.\n\n#### 14G Abolition of Supreme Court of the Territory\n\n The Supreme Court of the Territory is abolished on a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day on which no person holds office as a Judge of that Court.\n\n#### 14H Transitional provisions after abolition of Supreme Court\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> proclaimed day means the day fixed by Proclamation under section 14G.\n\n> State Court means the Court to which proceedings are transferred under subsection (2).\n\n> Territory Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n (2) As soon as practicable after no person holds office as a Judge of the Territory Court, the Registrar of the Court must transfer all proceedings in the Court (including completed proceedings) to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (3) If proceedings are transferred under subsection (2):\n (a) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (b) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (c) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n (4) If proceedings transferred under subsection (2) were not completed before the proclaimed day, the State Court may:\n (a) hear, or further hear, the proceedings; and\n (b) determine the proceedings; and\n (c) have regard to any evidence or argument in the proceedings in the Territory Court.\n (5) On and after the proclaimed day, this Act has effect as if sections 11, 11AAA and 11A were repealed and subsection 12(1) were omitted.\n\n#### 14J References to courts of Territory—transitional\n\n (1) Unless the contrary intention appears:\n (a) a reference in any Act (including a reference in a provision of this Act other than this Part) to the Supreme Court of the Territory is taken to include a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act; and\n (b) a reference in any Act to courts of the Territory is taken to include a reference to courts of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act.\n (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference in the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.\n\n## Part VI—Miscellaneous\n\n#### 17 Appointment of officers\n\n (1) In spite of the Public Service Act 1999, a law of the Territory may make provision for and in relation to the appointment and employment of persons for the purposes of the government of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the appointment or employment of persons under the Public Service Act 1999 in its application to the Territory.\n\n#### 18 Arrangements in relation to prisoners, mental patients etc.\n\n (1) Provision may be made by Ordinance:\n (a) for authorizing the making of arrangements by the Minister with the Government or an authority of a place outside the Territory (including a State or another Territory) for or in relation to:\n (i) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, for the purpose of serving their sentences in that place; or\n (ii) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons found to be of unsound mind, for the purpose of detention and treatment in that place; and\n (b) for or in relation to the carrying out of any such arrangements and the custody and detention of persons during their removal in pursuance of the arrangements.\n (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the Governor‑General has commuted to a term of imprisonment the sentence of a person who has been sentenced to death by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, that person shall be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment for that term by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section affects the application, in respect of the Territory, of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923.\n\n#### 18A Removal of accused to State to stand trial\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(5)(a) in relation to an accused, the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or a person directed by the Court under that paragraph, may:\n (a) by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the Territory to the prison specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison; and\n (b) by warrant directed to that officer, require that officer to detain the accused in that prison pursuant to this section.\n (2) A warrant directed to all constables may be executed by any constable.\n (3) An accused delivered into custody at a prison in a State under a warrant under subsection (1) may, subject to any order of the Supreme Court, be detained in that prison or any other prison in that State for so long as the accused’s detention is necessary for the execution of the order.\n (4) An accused may, while so in custody, be dealt with in the same manner, and is subject to the same laws, as if the warrant issued under subsection (1) had been issued under a law in force in the relevant State relating to holding persons in custody pending the trial of those persons.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay to the relevant State the reasonable expenses of maintaining an accused detained in a prison under a warrant under subsection (1).\n\n#### 18B Accused to be conveyed to Court\n\n (1) Where an accused has been removed to a State under this Act, a judge of the Supreme Court may order that the accused be conveyed to the Court for the purposes of trial in that State, and any related proceedings.\n (2) Where a judge of the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (1), the person who has the custody of the accused shall release the accused to a constable to enable the accused to be conveyed to the Court in accordance with that order.\n\n#### 18C Return of accused to Territory\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(8)(b), the Registrar may, by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the State in which the Court made the order to the prison in the Territory specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison.\n (2) A warrant referred to in subsection (1) may be executed by any constable.\n\n#### 18D Person deemed to be prisoner under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been tried in relation to an indictable offence against a law in force in the Territory by the Supreme Court sitting in a State; and\n (b) the person is convicted of that offence and sentenced to imprisonment;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (c) to be a prisoner within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (d) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and the provisions of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.\n\n#### 18E Person deemed to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where a person who has been removed to a State under this Act:\n (a) is found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offence;\n (b) is found or certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be unfit, on the ground of insanity, to be tried for the offence; or\n (c) is convicted of an offence and afterwards certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be insane;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (d) to be a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (e) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and sections 9 and 10A of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.\n\n#### 18F Repatriation of person tried in a State\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been removed to a State under this Act;\n (b) the trial of the person in the Supreme Court sitting in that State has concluded; and\n (c) the person is acquitted (other than on the ground of insanity) or is not, after the date on which the trial concludes, required to serve a sentence of imprisonment;\n the Commonwealth shall, on application by the person to the Secretary, provide the person with means to enable the person to return to the Territory.\n\n#### 20 Grant of pardon, remission etc.\n\n (1) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant to a person convicted by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction under a law in force in the Territory a pardon, either free or conditional, or a remission or commutation of sentence, or a respite, for such period as the Governor‑General thinks fit, of the execution of sentence, and may remit fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or incurred under a law in force in the Territory.\n (2) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant a pardon to an accomplice who gives evidence that leads to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any of the principal offenders.\n\n#### 21 Exemption from Customs duties of goods produced in the Territory\n\n Duties of Customs are not chargeable on goods imported into Australia from the Territory if the goods:\n (a) are the produce or manufacture of the Territory;\n (b) have been shipped in the Territory for export to Australia; and\n (c) are not goods which, if manufactured or produced in Australia, would be subject to a Duty of Excise.\n\n#### 21A Disposal of land\n\n (1) The application of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 in relation to land in the Territory does not prevent or affect the making or operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law of the Territory (including the operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law made before the commencement of this section) by virtue of which:\n (a) lands in the Territory acquired by or vested in the Commonwealth may be disposed of or otherwise dealt with;\n (b) instruments, receipts and other documents in relation to any such lands may be executed; or\n (c) rights, duties and liabilities in relation to any such lands are or may be acquired, conferred or imposed.\n (2) Any Ordinances or other laws of the Territory referred to in subsection (1) which provide for the acquisition of land shall provide that such land shall not be acquired otherwise than on just terms.\n\n#### 22 Audit\n\n The accounts of the Territory shall be subject to inspection and audit by the Auditor‑General for the Commonwealth.\n\n#### 22A Ordinances—incorporation of matters by reference\n\n (1) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003, an Ordinance, or a law made under such an Ordinance, may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, a provision of a Western Australian law (whether or not the law is an applied Western Australian law), as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.\n (2) Subsection (1) applies to a provision of a Western Australian law that is not an Act of the Western Australian Parliament only if the provision is subject to disallowance (however described) in Western Australia.\n\n#### 23 Regulations\n\n The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and, in particular:\n (a) making provision for and in relation to sittings of the Supreme Court in a State for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice; and\n (b) prescribing penalties, of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding 15 penalty units, for offences against the regulations; and\n (c) making saving or transitional provisions in relation to the abolition of any court established by an Ordinance.","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"Division 1","sectionType":"division","heading":"Laws of the Territory","content":"AND WHEREAS by the Constitution it is provided that the Parliament may make laws for the government of any territory placed by the Queen under the authority of and accepted by the Commonwealth:\n\nBE it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\n## Part I—Preliminary\n\n#### 1 Short title\n\n This Act may be cited as the Christmas Island Act 1958.\n\n#### 2 Commencement\n\n (1) Part I shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n (2) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.\n (3) The date so fixed shall be the date on which Christmas Island is placed under the authority of the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Imperial Act entitled the Christmas Island Act, 1958.\n\n#### 4 Interpretation\n\n (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\n> amended: for when an applied Western Australian law is amended, see subsection 8GA(4).\n\n> applied Western Australian law means a Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under section 8A.\n\n> authority includes a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose.\n\n> Christmas Island means the Island of that name situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 10˚30´ south and longitude 105˚40´ east.\n\n> constable means:\n\n (a) a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or\n (b) an officer or special officer of the police force of the Territory.\n\n> court officer of Western Australia means a person holding, or performing the functions or duties of, any of the following offices:\n\n (a) any of the following offices in a court of Western Australia:\n (i) Judge;\n (ii) Magistrate (however described);\n (iii) Master;\n (iv) Registrar (however described);\n (v) Clerk (however described);\n (vi) Sheriff (however described);\n (vii) Bailiff (however described); or\n (b) any of the following offices in the Family Court of Western Australia:\n (i) Marshal;\n (ii) Director of Court Counselling;\n (iii) Collector of Maintenance; or\n (c) the office of Chairman, Deputy Chairman or nominee member of the Worker’s Compensation Board of Western Australia; or\n (d) any other office in respect of a court of Western Australia, being an office specified in the regulations.\n\n> court of Western Australia means any of the following courts or tribunals:\n\n (a) the Supreme Court of Western Australia;\n (b) the District Court of Western Australia;\n (c) the Family Court of Western Australia;\n (d) a Court of Petty Sessions of Western Australia;\n (e) a Local Court of Western Australia;\n (f) a coroners’ court of Western Australia;\n (g) the Children’s Court of Western Australia;\n (h) the Workers’ Compensation Board of Western Australia;\n (i) any other court or tribunal specified in the regulations.\n\n> jurisdiction includes powers.\n\n> laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory means the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7.\n\n> Ordinance means an Ordinance made under this Act.\n\n> power includes a function or duty, and, in that context exercise means perform.\n\n> prison includes a lock‑up or other place of lawful detention.\n\n> Registrar means the Registrar, or the Deputy Registrar, of the Supreme Court.\n\n> Sheriff means the Sheriff, or a Deputy Sheriff, of the Territory.\n\n> State includes a Territory other than the Territory.\n\n> the police force of the Territory includes any police force empowered to provide police services under a law in force in the Territory.\n\n> the proclaimed date means the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(2).\n\n> the Supreme Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n> the Territory means the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n> Western Australian law: see subsection 8A(6).\n\n (2) In this Act, a reference to an Act is a reference to the whole or a part of that Act, or to the whole or a part of a law made under that Act.\n\n#### 4A Application of the Criminal Code\n\n (1) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code applies to all offences created by this Act.\n\n> Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.\n\n (2) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code does not apply in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, a law in force in the Territory because of section 8A.\n\n## Part II—Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n#### 5 Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n Christmas Island is declared to be accepted by the Commonwealth as a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth and shall be known as the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n#### 6 Transfer of rights, liabilities etc. to Commonwealth\n\n (1) All property, rights and powers in or in connexion with Christmas Island which, immediately before the proclaimed date, were held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Queen in right of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, or by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, shall, from and including that date, be deemed to be held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), all liabilities and obligations incurred before the proclaimed date by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of the Colony of Singapore or the Government of the Colony of Christmas Island in or in connexion with Christmas Island and subsisting immediately before that date shall, from and including that date, be deemed to have been incurred by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to or in relation to liabilities or obligations of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Singapore for or in respect of:\n (a) the servicing or repayment of public loans raised by the Government of the Colony of Singapore;\n (b) the payment of pensions or retiring allowances in respect of service in Christmas Island;\n (c) the repayment of deposits with the Christmas Island branch of the Post Office Savings Bank of the Colony of Singapore or interest on those deposits; or\n (d) the meeting of deficiencies in assets of the Central Provident Fund of the Colony of Singapore required by the Central Provident Fund Ordinance of that Colony to be met out of the general revenues of that Colony.\n (4) In this section, property includes movable and immovable property.\n\n## Part III—Laws and Legislative Powers\n\n### Division 1—Laws of the Territory\n\n#### 7 The laws of the Territory\n\n (1) On and after 1 July 1992, the laws in force in the Territory from time to time are:\n (a) Acts as in force from time to time in or in relation to the Territory on and after that day; and\n (b) Ordinances made on or after that day as in force from time to time; and\n (c) laws as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8; and\n (d) applied Western Australian laws.\n (2) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not prevent any other law, including a law of a State, from applying in the Territory of its own force.\n\n#### 8 Operation of existing laws etc.\n\n (1) A law in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 is repealed unless it is specified in the Schedule.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), a law that is specified in the Schedule (including any instruments made under that law) as in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 continues to be in force in the Territory on and after that day.\n (3) A law specified in the Schedule may be amended or repealed by an Ordinance.\n (4) In this section:\n\n> instruments includes regulations, rules and by‑laws.\n\n> law:\n\n (a) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity; and\n (b) does not include an Act.\n\n#### 8A Application of Western Australian laws\n\n (1) Subject to this section, section 8G and Part IVA, Western Australian laws are in force in the Territory.\n\n> Note: A Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under this section is an applied Western Australian law (see the definition in subsection 4(1)).\n\n (2) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it may be incorporated, amended or repealed by an Ordinance or a law made under an Ordinance.\n (3) An Ordinance may suspend the operation in the Territory of a law in force in the Territory under subsection (1) for such period as is specified in the Ordinance.\n (4) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it has no effect so far as it is inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance.\n (5) For the purpose of subsection (4), a law is consistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance if the law is capable of operating concurrently with it.\n (6) A Western Australian law:\n (a) is a law in force in Western Australia from time to time; and\n (b) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity that is part of the law of Western Australia; and\n (c) does not include:\n (i) a Commonwealth Act or a provision of a Commonwealth Act; or\n (ii) an instrument (however described) made under a Commonwealth Act, or a provision of such an instrument.\n\n#### 8B Minister must table lists of applied Western Australian Acts\n\n (1) The Minister must cause a list of Acts of the Western Australian Parliament (WA Acts) to be prepared and tabled in each House of the Parliament for the following periods:\n (a) the period of 3 months beginning on 1 July 1992; and\n (b) each subsequent period of 6 months.\n (2) The list must specify the names of all WA Acts that are wholly or partly in force in the Territory under section 8A on the day specified in the list, and have not been specified in a previous list under this section. The specified day must be not more than 14 days before the day on which the list is to be tabled.\n (3) The list must include WA Acts whose operation has been suspended in accordance with subsection 8A(3).\n (4) The list must be tabled in each House of the Parliament before the end of the period to which the list relates. However, if the House concerned does not sit during any day in the last month of the period, the list may be tabled in that House within the next 15 sitting days of that House.\n\n#### 8C House may terminate application of Western Australian Acts in the Territory\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> terminate means terminate the operation of a WA Act in the Territory.\n\n> WA Act means an Act of the Western Australian Parliament that is specified in a list tabled under section 8B, or part of such an Act.\n\n> WA Acts list means a list prepared and tabled in a House of the Parliament under section 8B.\n\n (2) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to terminate the WA Act;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the time when the resolution was passed.\n (3) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the notice was given:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the expiration of that period of 15 sitting days.\n (4) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act specified in a WA Acts list has been given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House):\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n subsections (2) and (3) apply as if the WA Acts list had been tabled in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) The termination of a WA Act under subsection (2) or (3) has the same effect as the repeal of that WA Act, as a law of the Territory, by an Ordinance.\n (6) If:\n (a) a WA Act (the terminated Act) is terminated under subsection (2) or (3); and\n (b) the terminated Act repealed, in whole or in part, another WA Act or any other law that was in force in the Territory immediately before the terminated Act came into force in the Territory under section 8A;\n the termination of the terminated Act has the effect of reviving that other WA Act or law from and including the date of the termination, as if the terminated Act had not come into force in the Territory.\n (7) A notice of a motion, or a resolution, for the purposes of this section may relate to the termination of more than one WA Act.\n\n#### 8D Extension of period for giving notice of motion to terminate WA Act\n\n (1) This section provides for an extension of time for giving a notice of a motion (the termination notice) in a House of the Parliament to terminate one or more WA Acts that are specified in the first WA Acts list that is required by section 8A to be tabled in that House.\n (2) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to extend the period;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (3) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice has been given in that House:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (4) If a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House) for the purpose of obtaining an extension under subsection (2) or (3) but, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice is given:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the extension notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the following provisions apply:\n (c) the extension notice is taken to have been given in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation;\n (d) the termination notice may be given in that House within the first 15 sitting days of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) In this section, terminate, WA Act and WA Acts list have the same meanings as in section 8C.\n\n#### 8E Application of Commonwealth Acts\n\n (1) An Act (whether passed before or after this section’s commencement) extends to the Territory of its own force except so far as the Act or another Act expressly provides otherwise.\n (2) Except as provided by this Act, an Ordinance has no effect so far as it purports to affect the application of an Act in or in relation to the Territory.\n\n#### 8G Powers under the applied Western Australian laws\n\n (1) If, by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in:\n (a) a Minister of Western Australia; or\n (b) the Governor of Western Australia; or\n (c) the Governor‑in‑Council of Western Australia;\n that power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.\n (2) If:\n (a) by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in a person (other than a court officer of Western Australia) or an authority (other than a court of Western Australia); and\n (b) subsection (1) does not apply to that power;\n the power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.\n (2A) To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a power vested in a person or authority by an applied Western Australian law does not include a reference to a power so vested, whether directly or indirectly, because of an Ordinance made for the purposes of subsection 8A(2).\n\n> Note: Under subsection 8A(2), an Ordinance may provide for the incorporation, amendment or repeal of an applied Western Australian law.\n\n Delegation etc.\n (3) If a power is vested in the Minister under subsection (1) or (2), the Minister may, in writing:\n (a) direct that the power is also vested in a person or authority; or\n (b) delegate the power to a person or authority.\n (4) A direction or delegation under subsection (3) is subject to such conditions as may be specified:\n (a) in the direction or delegation; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—in writing, by the Minister.\n (5) A person or authority in whom a power is vested by a direction under paragraph (3)(a) may delegate the power, in writing, to another person or authority:\n (a) if authorised to do so by the direction; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—if authorised to do so, in writing, by the Minister.\n Deemed vesting of powers—Western Australian persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5A) If a power is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in another person or authority in the circumstances that:\n (a) the person or authority is subject to an arrangement under section 8H and is:\n (i) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (ii) an authority established by or under a Western Australian law; or\n (iii) an officer or employee of such an authority; and\n (b) the power corresponds to a power that the person or authority is authorised, under a Western Australian law, to exercise in, or in a part of, Western Australia:\n (i) whether in the person’s or authority’s own right; or\n (ii) whether in the capacity of a delegate; or\n (iii) whether in any other way.\n Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5B) If a power mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in a person or authority mentioned in column 2 of the item.\n\n```html\n

Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island

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Column 1

Column 2

1

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police force (however described)

The Australian Federal Police

2

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police officer (however described) holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position

A member or special member of the Australian Federal Police holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position in the Territory

3

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a body (a local government body) responsible for local government under such a law

The Christmas Island Shire

4

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position on or with a local government body

A person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position on or with the Christmas Island Shire

5

A power that corresponds to a power, vested by a Western Australian law, that is prescribed by an Ordinance for the purposes of this item

A person or authority prescribed by that Ordinance

\n```\n\n (6) The Minister may, in writing, direct that subsection (5A) or (5B) does not apply to a specified power.\n (7) A direction under subsection (6) may be unconditional or subject to such conditions (if any) as are specified in the direction.\n Other matters\n (8) An instrument under this section may identify a power by reference to a class of powers.\n (9) The validity of the exercise of a power under an applied Western Australian law by a person or authority under this section is unaffected by the failure of the person or authority to hold a qualification required of a person or authority exercising that power under a Western Australian law.\n (10) This section does not affect the operation of section 8A in relation to the application in or in relation to the Territory of a law (a subordinate law) made under a Western Australian law, whether the subordinate law is made after this section’s commencement or not.\n (10A) Subject to any direction or delegation under this section, if a power vested by an applied Western Australian law in a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) is vested in another person or authority under this section, each reference in any applied Western Australian law to the first mentioned person or authority is taken to include a reference to the other person or authority.\n (11) An instrument under this section is not a legislative instrument.\n\n#### 8GA Applied Western Australian laws—effect of directions or delegations\n\n Scope\n (1) This section applies if:\n (a) the Minister directs, under paragraph 8G(3)(a), that all the powers of a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law are vested in another person or authority; or\n (b) the Minister delegates to a person or authority, under paragraph 8G(3)(b), all the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law; or\n (c) a person or authority delegates to another person or authority, under subsection 8G(5), all of the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law.\n Addition of powers\n (2) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to give the first mentioned person or authority one or more additional powers under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the additional powers.\n Alteration of powers\n (3) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to alter the scope of one or more of the powers of the first mentioned person or authority under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the powers as altered.\n Amendments of applied Western Australian laws\n (4) An applied Western Australian law is amended if:\n (a) the law is amended by an Ordinance; or\n (b) the corresponding Western Australian law is amended.\n\n#### 8H Arrangements with the Government of Western Australia\n\n (1) The Commonwealth may enter into arrangements with Western Australia for the effective application and administration of the laws in force in the Territory.\n (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), such an arrangement may provide for the exercise of powers by:\n (a) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (b) an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law; or\n (c) an officer or employee of an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law;\n in or in relation to the Territory.\n\n#### 8I Savings\n\n (1) The repeal of a law of the Territory by subsection 8(1) does not:\n (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time of the repeal; or\n (b) affect the previous operation of the law, or anything duly done under or permitted by the law; or\n (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the law; or\n (d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the law; or\n (e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment.\n (2) In spite of the repeal, the law continues in force for the purposes of:\n (a) the institution or continuation of any investigation or legal proceeding mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (b) the enforcement of any remedy mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (c) the imposition of any penalty, forfeiture or punishment mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).\n\n### Division 2—Legislative Powers of the Governor‑General\n\n#### 9 Legislative powers of the Governor‑General\n\n (1) Subject to this Act, the Governor‑General may make Ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the Territory.\n (2) Notice of the making of an Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette, and an Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance, come into operation on the date of publication of the notice.\n\n#### 10 Tabling of Ordinances in Parliament\n\n (1) Every Ordinance shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Ordinance is made and, if it is not so laid before each House of the Parliament, ceases to have effect.\n (2) If either House of the Parliament, in pursuance of a motion of which notice has been given within 15 sitting days after an Ordinance has been laid before that House, passes a resolution disallowing the Ordinance or a part of the Ordinance, the Ordinance or part so disallowed thereupon ceases to have effect.\n (3) If, at the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament, being notice given within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House:\n (a) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (b) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance or part, as the case may be, specified in the motion shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed.\n (3A) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance shall, for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), be deemed to have been laid before that first‑mentioned House on the first sitting day of that first‑mentioned House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be.\n (4) Where an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1), the disallowance of the Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the Ordinance, as the case may be, has the same effect as a repeal of the Ordinance.\n (4A) Where:\n (a) an Ordinance (in this subsection referred to as the relevant Ordinance) is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1); and\n (b) the relevant Ordinance repealed, in whole or in part, another Ordinance or any other law that was in force immediately before the relevant Ordinance came into operation;\n the disallowance of the relevant Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the relevant Ordinance, as the case may be, has the effect of reviving that other Ordinance or law, as the case may be, from and including the date of the disallowance or the date on which the relevant Ordinance ceased to have effect by virtue of that operation of subsection (1), as the case may be, as if the relevant Ordinance had not been made.\n (4B) A reference in subsection (4) or (4A) to an Ordinance shall be read as including a reference to a part of an Ordinance, and a reference in subsection (4A) to a law has a corresponding meaning.\n\n#### 10A Ordinance not to be re‑made while required to be tabled\n\n (1) Where an Ordinance (in this section called the original Ordinance) has been made, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the original Ordinance shall be made during the period defined by subsection (2) unless both Houses of the Parliament by resolution approve the making of an Ordinance containing a provision the same in substance as that provision of the original Ordinance.\n (2) The period referred to in subsection (1) is the period starting on the day on which the original Ordinance was made and ending at the end of 7 days after:\n (a) if the original Ordinance has been laid, in accordance with subsection 10(1), before both Houses of the Parliament on the same day—that day;\n (b) if the original Ordinance has been so laid before both Houses on different days—the later of those days; or\n (c) if the original Ordinance has not been so laid before both Houses—the last day on which subsection 10(1) could have been complied with.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n\n#### 10B Ordinance not to be re‑made while subject to disallowance\n\n (1) Where notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (a) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (b) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (c) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (d) subsection 10(3A) has applied in relation to the Ordinance.\n (2) Where:\n (a) because of subsection 10(3A), an Ordinance is deemed to have been laid before a House of the Parliament on a particular day; and\n (b) notice of a motion to disallow the Ordinance has been given in that House within 15 sitting days after that day;\n no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (c) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (d) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (e) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (f) subsection 10(3A) has applied again in relation to the Ordinance.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n (4) This section does not limit the operation of section 10A or 10C.\n (5) In this section:\n\n> Ordinance includes a part of an Ordinance.\n\n#### 10C Disallowed ordinance not to be re‑made unless resolution rescinded or House approves\n\n If an Ordinance or a part of an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under section 10, and an Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision so disallowed, or deemed to have been disallowed, is made within 6 months after the date of the disallowance, that provision has no effect, unless:\n (a) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, disallowed by resolution—the resolution has been rescinded by the House of the Parliament by which it was passed; or\n (b) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, deemed to have been disallowed—the House of the Parliament in which notice of the motion to disallow the Ordinance or part was given has approved, by resolution, the making of a provision the same in substance as the provision deemed to have been disallowed.\n\n#### 10D Regulations, rules and by‑laws\n\n (1) All regulations made under an Ordinance or any other law (not being an Act) in force in the Territory shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the regulations are made and, if they are not so laid before each House of the Parliament, have no effect.\n (1A) In subsection (1), a regulation made under a law in force in the Territory:\n (a) does not include a regulation of Western Australia as in force in the Territory under section 8A; and\n (b) includes a regulation made by a person or an authority empowered, under section 8G, to make the regulation under an applied Western Australian law.\n (2) Subsections 10(2) to (4B), inclusive, and sections 10A, 10B and 10C apply in relation to regulations laid before a House of the Parliament as if, in those provisions:\n (a) references to subsection 10(1) were references to subsection (1) of this section; and\n (b) references to an Ordinance were references to regulations; and\n (c) references to a provision of an Ordinance were references to a regulation.\n (3) In this section, regulations includes rules and by‑laws.\n\n## Part IV—The Judicial System\n\n#### 11 Supreme Court\n\n (1) There shall be a Supreme Court of the Territory, which shall be known as the Supreme Court of Christmas Island.\n (2) The Supreme Court shall be constituted as provided by Ordinance.\n (3) The Supreme Court is a superior court of record.\n\n#### 11AAA Minister may make arrangements with States\n\n The Minister may make arrangements with the government or an authority of a State for the purposes of the effective application of the provisions of this Act relating to sittings of the Supreme Court in that State in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction.\n\n#### 11AA Supreme Court may sit in a State\n\n (1) Subject to this section, the Supreme Court, in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, may sit in a State if to do so would not be contrary to the interests of justice.\n (2) The Supreme Court may, at any time after the presentation of an indictment for an offence against a law in force in the Territory and before the jury has returned its verdict, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order:\n (a) if the trial of the offence has not begun—that the trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order; and\n (b) if the trial of the offence has begun—that the trial be discontinued, the jury be discharged and a new trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order.\n (3) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in the Territory or in a State.\n (4) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in a State whether or not the accused is present but, if the accused is not present, the Court shall only make the order if:\n (a) the accused is represented; and\n (b) the Court is satisfied that the accused understands the effect of the order.\n (5) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (2), the Court may order that:\n (a) on the warrant of the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or such other person as the Supreme Court directs (being a person who holds an office in relation to the Court), the accused be removed to the place specified in the order, and held there, for the purposes of the trial of that person and for any related proceedings; and\n (b) on the summons of the Registrar, all persons required to attend to give evidence in the trial or proceedings attend at the place specified in the order.\n (6) When exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, the Supreme Court has, and may exercise, all the powers that it would have if it were exercising its criminal jurisdiction in the Territory.\n (7) A power exercised by the Supreme Court under subsection (6) shall be deemed to have been exercised by the Court at a sittings of the Court in the Territory.\n (8) Where the Supreme Court is sitting in a State for the purpose of a trial in that State, the Court may, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order that, for the purpose of viewing a place, or taking evidence from a person, in the Territory, or for a prescribed purpose:\n (a) the trial be adjourned for such time as the Court considers reasonable and necessary, and be continued in the Territory for so long as is necessary for that purpose;\n (b) on the warrant of the Registrar, the accused be returned to the Territory for the purposes of the continuation of the trial and any related proceedings; and\n (c) the jurors empanelled for the trial go to the Territory and remain there for such time as the Court directs for the purpose of continuing to attend as jurors in the trial.\n (9) A person who appears as a witness in the Supreme Court in a trial, or in related proceedings, held wholly or partly in a State, shall be paid by the Commonwealth such fees and allowances as would be payable to the person if the person had appeared as a witness in a trial held in the Territory.\n (10) Where:\n (a) the Supreme Court, when exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, makes an order, issues a warrant or summons or gives a judgment;\n (b) a person fails to comply with that order, warrant, summons or judgment; and\n (c) that failure would have constituted an offence against a law in force in the Territory if it had occurred there;\n the person commits an offence against this Act punishable by a penalty that is the same as the penalty for the offence referred to in paragraph (c).\n\n#### 11A Registries and Registrars\n\n Without limiting the provision that may otherwise be made by Ordinance in relation to the Supreme Court, provision may be made by Ordinance for or in relation to:\n (a) the establishment and operation of registries of that Court at places outside the Territory; and\n (b) where a power is conferred or imposed by law on a person who holds an office in relation to that Court—the exercise of that power at a place outside the Territory.\n\n#### 12 Jurisdiction etc. of the Supreme Court\n\n (1) Except as provided in this Part, the jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the Supreme Court shall be as provided by or under Ordinance.\n (2) The trial on indictment of an offence against a law in force in the Territory shall be by judge and jury.\n\n#### 12A Juries outside the Territory\n\n (1) Subject to this section and the regulations, the laws in force in a State relating to:\n (a) the qualification of jurors;\n (b) the preparation of jury lists and jury panels;\n (c) the summoning, attendance and empanelling of juries;\n (d) the number of jurors;\n (e) the right of challenge;\n (f) the discharge of juries;\n (g) the disagreement of jurors;\n (h) the remuneration of jurors; and\n (j) other matters concerning jurors (other than matters dealt with under section 12B) after they have been summoned, appointed or sworn;\n that apply for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of that State sitting at a place in that State, extend and shall be applied, with such changes as are necessary, for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of the Territory when sitting at that place.\n (2) For the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly at a place in a State, the jury list that would be used for the purposes of a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of that State sitting in the same place shall be used as well for the purposes of the trial in the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n (3) The precept for a jury shall be issued by the Registrar, or such other person holding an office in relation to the Supreme Court as the Court directs, and the Sheriff or such other person as the Court directs shall prepare the jury panels and summon jurors.\n (4) The person who has custody of the jury list referred to in subsection (2) in the State where the Supreme Court is holding a trial shall:\n (a) give a copy of that list to the person directed by the Court to prepare a jury panel; and\n (b) indicate on that copy the names of the persons who, to his or her knowledge, would not, if summoned at the time the copy is given, be liable to serve as jurors under the law in force in that State.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay such reasonable fee as may be demanded for a copy of a list referred to in paragraph (4)(a).\n (6) Any remuneration required to be paid to a person who serves, or is summoned to serve, on a jury in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall be paid by the Commonwealth.\n (7) Where a law applied by this Act for the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court requires an act or thing to be done by a person specified in that law, the Court may, if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of the effective application of the law, order that a person who holds a specified office in relation to the Court do that act or thing, and the law shall be deemed to apply to that person accordingly.\n (8) The regulations may provide that such provisions of a law referred to in subsection (1) as are specified in the regulations do not apply or apply subject to such modifications as are specified in the regulations.\n (9) In this section, jury list means the roll, list, or book on or in which the names of persons liable to serve as jurors appear.\n\n#### 12B Offences in relation to jurors\n\n (1) A person who is served with a summons to attend as a juror in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall not:\n (a) fail to attend in accordance with the summons; or\n (b) having so attended, withdraw from the presence of the Court, without the permission of the Sheriff, before being discharged or excused by a judge of the Court or the Sheriff.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 1 month or 2 penalty units.\n\n (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.\n\n> Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (1A) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).\n\n (2) A person shall not personate a person who is a juror with the intention of sitting on a jury.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units.\n\n (3) A person shall not:\n (a) engage in conduct that results in the corruption of a juror;\n (b) make or promise a payment to a juror, or confer or promise to confer any other benefit on a juror in relation to the person’s service as a juror, other than a payment of the ordinary remuneration of the juror’s employment; or\n (c) being a juror, accept such a payment or benefit.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.\n\n (4) In this section:\n\n> engage in conduct means:\n\n (a) do an act; or\n (b) omit to perform an act.\n\n> juror includes a person whose name is on a jury panel.\n\n## Part IVA—Conferral of Territory Jurisdiction on Western Australian courts etc.\n\n#### 14A Definitions\n\n In this Part:\n\n> Family Court of Western Australia means the Court established by the Family Court Act 1975 of Western Australia.\n\n> transfer day means the day on which this Part commences.\n\n#### 14B Conferral of jurisdiction on Western Australian courts and court officers\n\n (1) Subject to this Part and any law in force in the Territory, the courts and court officers of Western Australia have jurisdiction (including appellate jurisdiction) in and in relation to the Territory as if the Territory were part of Western Australia.\n (2) Subject to section 14E, a court or court officer of Western Australia may, in exercising jurisdiction under this section, sit in the Territory or Western Australia.\n (3) Subject to any law in force in the Territory, the practice and procedure applicable to a court or court officer exercising jurisdiction under this section are to be the practice and procedure as in force from time to time in relation to that court or court officer in Western Australia.\n\n#### 14C Transfer of Supreme Court jurisdiction\n\n (1) This section applies to the jurisdiction vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court immediately before the transfer day, except in relation to matters for which:\n (a) proceedings were pending in that Court immediately before that day; or\n (b) proceedings had been completed in that Court before that day.\n (2) On and after the transfer day, the jurisdiction:\n (a) ceases to be vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court; and\n (b) is vested in:\n (i) if the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (ii) if the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (iii) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires).\n\n#### 14D Transfer of pending proceedings\n\n (1) On and after the transfer day, the parties to proceedings in a matter pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory (Territory Court) may apply to that Court to transfer the proceedings to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (2) If the Territory Court decides that it is not contrary to the interests of justice to grant the application, the Court is to transfer the proceedings to the relevant Court (State Court) and:\n (a) the State Court may hear and determine the proceedings; and\n (b) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (c) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (d) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n\n#### 14E Application of provisions of this Act to courts of Western Australia\n\n In relation to the exercise of jurisdiction by the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge or an officer mentioned in this Part, sections 11AA, 12A, 12B, 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E and 18F have effect as if, in those provisions:\n (a) a reference to the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia or the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (b) a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia or of the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (c) a reference to a magistrate of the Territory included a reference to a magistrate (however described) of Western Australia who has jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under a law of the Territory; and\n (d) a reference to the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of a judge of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory; and\n (e) a reference to the Sheriff of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory.\n\n#### 14F Savings—jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the Territory on and after transfer day\n\n Part IVA of this Act as in force immediately before the transfer day continues in force in relation to any matter in respect of which the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court continues to have jurisdiction on or after that day.\n\n#### 14G Abolition of Supreme Court of the Territory\n\n The Supreme Court of the Territory is abolished on a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day on which no person holds office as a Judge of that Court.\n\n#### 14H Transitional provisions after abolition of Supreme Court\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> proclaimed day means the day fixed by Proclamation under section 14G.\n\n> State Court means the Court to which proceedings are transferred under subsection (2).\n\n> Territory Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n (2) As soon as practicable after no person holds office as a Judge of the Territory Court, the Registrar of the Court must transfer all proceedings in the Court (including completed proceedings) to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (3) If proceedings are transferred under subsection (2):\n (a) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (b) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (c) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n (4) If proceedings transferred under subsection (2) were not completed before the proclaimed day, the State Court may:\n (a) hear, or further hear, the proceedings; and\n (b) determine the proceedings; and\n (c) have regard to any evidence or argument in the proceedings in the Territory Court.\n (5) On and after the proclaimed day, this Act has effect as if sections 11, 11AAA and 11A were repealed and subsection 12(1) were omitted.\n\n#### 14J References to courts of Territory—transitional\n\n (1) Unless the contrary intention appears:\n (a) a reference in any Act (including a reference in a provision of this Act other than this Part) to the Supreme Court of the Territory is taken to include a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act; and\n (b) a reference in any Act to courts of the Territory is taken to include a reference to courts of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act.\n (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference in the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.\n\n## Part VI—Miscellaneous\n\n#### 17 Appointment of officers\n\n (1) In spite of the Public Service Act 1999, a law of the Territory may make provision for and in relation to the appointment and employment of persons for the purposes of the government of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the appointment or employment of persons under the Public Service Act 1999 in its application to the Territory.\n\n#### 18 Arrangements in relation to prisoners, mental patients etc.\n\n (1) Provision may be made by Ordinance:\n (a) for authorizing the making of arrangements by the Minister with the Government or an authority of a place outside the Territory (including a State or another Territory) for or in relation to:\n (i) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, for the purpose of serving their sentences in that place; or\n (ii) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons found to be of unsound mind, for the purpose of detention and treatment in that place; and\n (b) for or in relation to the carrying out of any such arrangements and the custody and detention of persons during their removal in pursuance of the arrangements.\n (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the Governor‑General has commuted to a term of imprisonment the sentence of a person who has been sentenced to death by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, that person shall be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment for that term by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section affects the application, in respect of the Territory, of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923.\n\n#### 18A Removal of accused to State to stand trial\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(5)(a) in relation to an accused, the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or a person directed by the Court under that paragraph, may:\n (a) by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the Territory to the prison specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison; and\n (b) by warrant directed to that officer, require that officer to detain the accused in that prison pursuant to this section.\n (2) A warrant directed to all constables may be executed by any constable.\n (3) An accused delivered into custody at a prison in a State under a warrant under subsection (1) may, subject to any order of the Supreme Court, be detained in that prison or any other prison in that State for so long as the accused’s detention is necessary for the execution of the order.\n (4) An accused may, while so in custody, be dealt with in the same manner, and is subject to the same laws, as if the warrant issued under subsection (1) had been issued under a law in force in the relevant State relating to holding persons in custody pending the trial of those persons.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay to the relevant State the reasonable expenses of maintaining an accused detained in a prison under a warrant under subsection (1).\n\n#### 18B Accused to be conveyed to Court\n\n (1) Where an accused has been removed to a State under this Act, a judge of the Supreme Court may order that the accused be conveyed to the Court for the purposes of trial in that State, and any related proceedings.\n (2) Where a judge of the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (1), the person who has the custody of the accused shall release the accused to a constable to enable the accused to be conveyed to the Court in accordance with that order.\n\n#### 18C Return of accused to Territory\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(8)(b), the Registrar may, by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the State in which the Court made the order to the prison in the Territory specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison.\n (2) A warrant referred to in subsection (1) may be executed by any constable.\n\n#### 18D Person deemed to be prisoner under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been tried in relation to an indictable offence against a law in force in the Territory by the Supreme Court sitting in a State; and\n (b) the person is convicted of that offence and sentenced to imprisonment;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (c) to be a prisoner within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (d) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and the provisions of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.\n\n#### 18E Person deemed to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where a person who has been removed to a State under this Act:\n (a) is found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offence;\n (b) is found or certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be unfit, on the ground of insanity, to be tried for the offence; or\n (c) is convicted of an offence and afterwards certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be insane;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (d) to be a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (e) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and sections 9 and 10A of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.\n\n#### 18F Repatriation of person tried in a State\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been removed to a State under this Act;\n (b) the trial of the person in the Supreme Court sitting in that State has concluded; and\n (c) the person is acquitted (other than on the ground of insanity) or is not, after the date on which the trial concludes, required to serve a sentence of imprisonment;\n the Commonwealth shall, on application by the person to the Secretary, provide the person with means to enable the person to return to the Territory.\n\n#### 20 Grant of pardon, remission etc.\n\n (1) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant to a person convicted by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction under a law in force in the Territory a pardon, either free or conditional, or a remission or commutation of sentence, or a respite, for such period as the Governor‑General thinks fit, of the execution of sentence, and may remit fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or incurred under a law in force in the Territory.\n (2) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant a pardon to an accomplice who gives evidence that leads to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any of the principal offenders.\n\n#### 21 Exemption from Customs duties of goods produced in the Territory\n\n Duties of Customs are not chargeable on goods imported into Australia from the Territory if the goods:\n (a) are the produce or manufacture of the Territory;\n (b) have been shipped in the Territory for export to Australia; and\n (c) are not goods which, if manufactured or produced in Australia, would be subject to a Duty of Excise.\n\n#### 21A Disposal of land\n\n (1) The application of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 in relation to land in the Territory does not prevent or affect the making or operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law of the Territory (including the operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law made before the commencement of this section) by virtue of which:\n (a) lands in the Territory acquired by or vested in the Commonwealth may be disposed of or otherwise dealt with;\n (b) instruments, receipts and other documents in relation to any such lands may be executed; or\n (c) rights, duties and liabilities in relation to any such lands are or may be acquired, conferred or imposed.\n (2) Any Ordinances or other laws of the Territory referred to in subsection (1) which provide for the acquisition of land shall provide that such land shall not be acquired otherwise than on just terms.\n\n#### 22 Audit\n\n The accounts of the Territory shall be subject to inspection and audit by the Auditor‑General for the Commonwealth.\n\n#### 22A Ordinances—incorporation of matters by reference\n\n (1) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003, an Ordinance, or a law made under such an Ordinance, may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, a provision of a Western Australian law (whether or not the law is an applied Western Australian law), as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.\n (2) Subsection (1) applies to a provision of a Western Australian law that is not an Act of the Western Australian Parliament only if the provision is subject to disallowance (however described) in Western Australia.\n\n#### 23 Regulations\n\n The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and, in particular:\n (a) making provision for and in relation to sittings of the Supreme Court in a State for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice; and\n (b) prescribing penalties, of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding 15 penalty units, for offences against the regulations; and\n (c) making saving or transitional provisions in relation to the abolition of any court established by an Ordinance.","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"7","sectionType":"section","heading":"The laws of the Territory","content":"#### 7 The laws of the Territory\n\n (1) On and after 1 July 1992, the laws in force in the Territory from time to time are:\n (a) Acts as in force from time to time in or in relation to the Territory on and after that day; and\n (b) Ordinances made on or after that day as in force from time to time; and\n (c) laws as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8; and\n (d) applied Western Australian laws.\n (2) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not prevent any other law, including a law of a State, from applying in the Territory of its own force.","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"8","sectionType":"section","heading":"Operation of existing laws etc.","content":"#### 8 Operation of existing laws etc.\n\n (1) A law in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 is repealed unless it is specified in the Schedule.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), a law that is specified in the Schedule (including any instruments made under that law) as in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 continues to be in force in the Territory on and after that day.\n (3) A law specified in the Schedule may be amended or repealed by an Ordinance.\n (4) In this section:\n\n> instruments includes regulations, rules and by‑laws.\n\n> law:\n\n (a) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity; and\n (b) does not include an Act.","sortOrder":11},{"sectionNumber":"8A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Application of Western Australian laws","content":"#### 8A Application of Western Australian laws\n\n (1) Subject to this section, section 8G and Part IVA, Western Australian laws are in force in the Territory.\n\n> Note: A Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under this section is an applied Western Australian law (see the definition in subsection 4(1)).\n\n (2) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it may be incorporated, amended or repealed by an Ordinance or a law made under an Ordinance.\n (3) An Ordinance may suspend the operation in the Territory of a law in force in the Territory under subsection (1) for such period as is specified in the Ordinance.\n (4) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it has no effect so far as it is inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance.\n (5) For the purpose of subsection (4), a law is consistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance if the law is capable of operating concurrently with it.\n (6) A Western Australian law:\n (a) is a law in force in Western Australia from time to time; and\n (b) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity that is part of the law of Western Australia; and\n (c) does not include:\n (i) a Commonwealth Act or a provision of a Commonwealth Act; or\n (ii) an instrument (however described) made under a Commonwealth Act, or a provision of such an instrument.","sortOrder":12},{"sectionNumber":"8B","sectionType":"section","heading":"Minister must table lists of applied Western Australian Acts","content":"#### 8B Minister must table lists of applied Western Australian Acts\n\n (1) The Minister must cause a list of Acts of the Western Australian Parliament (WA Acts) to be prepared and tabled in each House of the Parliament for the following periods:\n (a) the period of 3 months beginning on 1 July 1992; and\n (b) each subsequent period of 6 months.\n (2) The list must specify the names of all WA Acts that are wholly or partly in force in the Territory under section 8A on the day specified in the list, and have not been specified in a previous list under this section. The specified day must be not more than 14 days before the day on which the list is to be tabled.\n (3) The list must include WA Acts whose operation has been suspended in accordance with subsection 8A(3).\n (4) The list must be tabled in each House of the Parliament before the end of the period to which the list relates. However, if the House concerned does not sit during any day in the last month of the period, the list may be tabled in that House within the next 15 sitting days of that House.","sortOrder":13},{"sectionNumber":"8C","sectionType":"section","heading":"House may terminate application of Western Australian Acts in the Territory","content":"#### 8C House may terminate application of Western Australian Acts in the Territory\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> terminate means terminate the operation of a WA Act in the Territory.\n\n> WA Act means an Act of the Western Australian Parliament that is specified in a list tabled under section 8B, or part of such an Act.\n\n> WA Acts list means a list prepared and tabled in a House of the Parliament under section 8B.\n\n (2) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to terminate the WA Act;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the time when the resolution was passed.\n (3) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the notice was given:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the expiration of that period of 15 sitting days.\n (4) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act specified in a WA Acts list has been given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House):\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n subsections (2) and (3) apply as if the WA Acts list had been tabled in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) The termination of a WA Act under subsection (2) or (3) has the same effect as the repeal of that WA Act, as a law of the Territory, by an Ordinance.\n (6) If:\n (a) a WA Act (the terminated Act) is terminated under subsection (2) or (3); and\n (b) the terminated Act repealed, in whole or in part, another WA Act or any other law that was in force in the Territory immediately before the terminated Act came into force in the Territory under section 8A;\n the termination of the terminated Act has the effect of reviving that other WA Act or law from and including the date of the termination, as if the terminated Act had not come into force in the Territory.\n (7) A notice of a motion, or a resolution, for the purposes of this section may relate to the termination of more than one WA Act.","sortOrder":14},{"sectionNumber":"8D","sectionType":"section","heading":"Extension of period for giving notice of motion to terminate WA Act","content":"#### 8D Extension of period for giving notice of motion to terminate WA Act\n\n (1) This section provides for an extension of time for giving a notice of a motion (the termination notice) in a House of the Parliament to terminate one or more WA Acts that are specified in the first WA Acts list that is required by section 8A to be tabled in that House.\n (2) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to extend the period;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (3) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice has been given in that House:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (4) If a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House) for the purpose of obtaining an extension under subsection (2) or (3) but, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice is given:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the extension notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the following provisions apply:\n (c) the extension notice is taken to have been given in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation;\n (d) the termination notice may be given in that House within the first 15 sitting days of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) In this section, terminate, WA Act and WA Acts list have the same meanings as in section 8C.","sortOrder":15},{"sectionNumber":"8E","sectionType":"section","heading":"Application of Commonwealth Acts","content":"#### 8E Application of Commonwealth Acts\n\n (1) An Act (whether passed before or after this section’s commencement) extends to the Territory of its own force except so far as the Act or another Act expressly provides otherwise.\n (2) Except as provided by this Act, an Ordinance has no effect so far as it purports to affect the application of an Act in or in relation to the Territory.","sortOrder":16},{"sectionNumber":"8G","sectionType":"section","heading":"Powers under the applied Western Australian laws","content":"#### 8G Powers under the applied Western Australian laws\n\n (1) If, by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in:\n (a) a Minister of Western Australia; or\n (b) the Governor of Western Australia; or\n (c) the Governor‑in‑Council of Western Australia;\n that power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.\n (2) If:\n (a) by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in a person (other than a court officer of Western Australia) or an authority (other than a court of Western Australia); and\n (b) subsection (1) does not apply to that power;\n the power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.\n (2A) To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a power vested in a person or authority by an applied Western Australian law does not include a reference to a power so vested, whether directly or indirectly, because of an Ordinance made for the purposes of subsection 8A(2).\n\n> Note: Under subsection 8A(2), an Ordinance may provide for the incorporation, amendment or repeal of an applied Western Australian law.\n\n Delegation etc.\n (3) If a power is vested in the Minister under subsection (1) or (2), the Minister may, in writing:\n (a) direct that the power is also vested in a person or authority; or\n (b) delegate the power to a person or authority.\n (4) A direction or delegation under subsection (3) is subject to such conditions as may be specified:\n (a) in the direction or delegation; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—in writing, by the Minister.\n (5) A person or authority in whom a power is vested by a direction under paragraph (3)(a) may delegate the power, in writing, to another person or authority:\n (a) if authorised to do so by the direction; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—if authorised to do so, in writing, by the Minister.\n Deemed vesting of powers—Western Australian persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5A) If a power is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in another person or authority in the circumstances that:\n (a) the person or authority is subject to an arrangement under section 8H and is:\n (i) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (ii) an authority established by or under a Western Australian law; or\n (iii) an officer or employee of such an authority; and\n (b) the power corresponds to a power that the person or authority is authorised, under a Western Australian law, to exercise in, or in a part of, Western Australia:\n (i) whether in the person’s or authority’s own right; or\n (ii) whether in the capacity of a delegate; or\n (iii) whether in any other way.\n Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5B) If a power mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in a person or authority mentioned in column 2 of the item.\n\n```html\n

Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island

Item

Column 1

Column 2

1

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police force (however described)

The Australian Federal Police

2

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police officer (however described) holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position

A member or special member of the Australian Federal Police holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position in the Territory

3

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a body (a local government body) responsible for local government under such a law

The Christmas Island Shire

4

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position on or with a local government body

A person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position on or with the Christmas Island Shire

5

A power that corresponds to a power, vested by a Western Australian law, that is prescribed by an Ordinance for the purposes of this item

A person or authority prescribed by that Ordinance

\n```\n\n (6) The Minister may, in writing, direct that subsection (5A) or (5B) does not apply to a specified power.\n (7) A direction under subsection (6) may be unconditional or subject to such conditions (if any) as are specified in the direction.\n Other matters\n (8) An instrument under this section may identify a power by reference to a class of powers.\n (9) The validity of the exercise of a power under an applied Western Australian law by a person or authority under this section is unaffected by the failure of the person or authority to hold a qualification required of a person or authority exercising that power under a Western Australian law.\n (10) This section does not affect the operation of section 8A in relation to the application in or in relation to the Territory of a law (a subordinate law) made under a Western Australian law, whether the subordinate law is made after this section’s commencement or not.\n (10A) Subject to any direction or delegation under this section, if a power vested by an applied Western Australian law in a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) is vested in another person or authority under this section, each reference in any applied Western Australian law to the first mentioned person or authority is taken to include a reference to the other person or authority.\n (11) An instrument under this section is not a legislative instrument.","sortOrder":17},{"sectionNumber":"8GA","sectionType":"section","heading":"Applied Western Australian laws—effect of directions or delegations","content":"#### 8GA Applied Western Australian laws—effect of directions or delegations\n\n Scope\n (1) This section applies if:\n (a) the Minister directs, under paragraph 8G(3)(a), that all the powers of a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law are vested in another person or authority; or\n (b) the Minister delegates to a person or authority, under paragraph 8G(3)(b), all the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law; or\n (c) a person or authority delegates to another person or authority, under subsection 8G(5), all of the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law.\n Addition of powers\n (2) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to give the first mentioned person or authority one or more additional powers under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the additional powers.\n Alteration of powers\n (3) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to alter the scope of one or more of the powers of the first mentioned person or authority under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the powers as altered.\n Amendments of applied Western Australian laws\n (4) An applied Western Australian law is amended if:\n (a) the law is amended by an Ordinance; or\n (b) the corresponding Western Australian law is amended.","sortOrder":18},{"sectionNumber":"8H","sectionType":"section","heading":"Arrangements with the Government of Western Australia","content":"#### 8H Arrangements with the Government of Western Australia\n\n (1) The Commonwealth may enter into arrangements with Western Australia for the effective application and administration of the laws in force in the Territory.\n (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), such an arrangement may provide for the exercise of powers by:\n (a) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (b) an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law; or\n (c) an officer or employee of an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law;\n in or in relation to the Territory.","sortOrder":19},{"sectionNumber":"8I","sectionType":"section","heading":"Savings","content":"#### 8I Savings\n\n (1) The repeal of a law of the Territory by subsection 8(1) does not:\n (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time of the repeal; or\n (b) affect the previous operation of the law, or anything duly done under or permitted by the law; or\n (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the law; or\n (d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the law; or\n (e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment.\n (2) In spite of the repeal, the law continues in force for the purposes of:\n (a) the institution or continuation of any investigation or legal proceeding mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (b) the enforcement of any remedy mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (c) the imposition of any penalty, forfeiture or punishment mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).","sortOrder":20},{"sectionNumber":"Division 2","sectionType":"division","heading":"Legislative Powers of the Governor‑General","content":"AND WHEREAS by the Constitution it is provided that the Parliament may make laws for the government of any territory placed by the Queen under the authority of and accepted by the Commonwealth:\n\nBE it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\n## Part I—Preliminary\n\n#### 1 Short title\n\n This Act may be cited as the Christmas Island Act 1958.\n\n#### 2 Commencement\n\n (1) Part I shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n (2) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.\n (3) The date so fixed shall be the date on which Christmas Island is placed under the authority of the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Imperial Act entitled the Christmas Island Act, 1958.\n\n#### 4 Interpretation\n\n (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\n> amended: for when an applied Western Australian law is amended, see subsection 8GA(4).\n\n> applied Western Australian law means a Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under section 8A.\n\n> authority includes a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose.\n\n> Christmas Island means the Island of that name situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 10˚30´ south and longitude 105˚40´ east.\n\n> constable means:\n\n (a) a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or\n (b) an officer or special officer of the police force of the Territory.\n\n> court officer of Western Australia means a person holding, or performing the functions or duties of, any of the following offices:\n\n (a) any of the following offices in a court of Western Australia:\n (i) Judge;\n (ii) Magistrate (however described);\n (iii) Master;\n (iv) Registrar (however described);\n (v) Clerk (however described);\n (vi) Sheriff (however described);\n (vii) Bailiff (however described); or\n (b) any of the following offices in the Family Court of Western Australia:\n (i) Marshal;\n (ii) Director of Court Counselling;\n (iii) Collector of Maintenance; or\n (c) the office of Chairman, Deputy Chairman or nominee member of the Worker’s Compensation Board of Western Australia; or\n (d) any other office in respect of a court of Western Australia, being an office specified in the regulations.\n\n> court of Western Australia means any of the following courts or tribunals:\n\n (a) the Supreme Court of Western Australia;\n (b) the District Court of Western Australia;\n (c) the Family Court of Western Australia;\n (d) a Court of Petty Sessions of Western Australia;\n (e) a Local Court of Western Australia;\n (f) a coroners’ court of Western Australia;\n (g) the Children’s Court of Western Australia;\n (h) the Workers’ Compensation Board of Western Australia;\n (i) any other court or tribunal specified in the regulations.\n\n> jurisdiction includes powers.\n\n> laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory means the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7.\n\n> Ordinance means an Ordinance made under this Act.\n\n> power includes a function or duty, and, in that context exercise means perform.\n\n> prison includes a lock‑up or other place of lawful detention.\n\n> Registrar means the Registrar, or the Deputy Registrar, of the Supreme Court.\n\n> Sheriff means the Sheriff, or a Deputy Sheriff, of the Territory.\n\n> State includes a Territory other than the Territory.\n\n> the police force of the Territory includes any police force empowered to provide police services under a law in force in the Territory.\n\n> the proclaimed date means the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(2).\n\n> the Supreme Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n> the Territory means the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n> Western Australian law: see subsection 8A(6).\n\n (2) In this Act, a reference to an Act is a reference to the whole or a part of that Act, or to the whole or a part of a law made under that Act.\n\n#### 4A Application of the Criminal Code\n\n (1) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code applies to all offences created by this Act.\n\n> Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.\n\n (2) Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code does not apply in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, a law in force in the Territory because of section 8A.\n\n## Part II—Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n#### 5 Acceptance of Christmas Island\n\n Christmas Island is declared to be accepted by the Commonwealth as a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth and shall be known as the Territory of Christmas Island.\n\n#### 6 Transfer of rights, liabilities etc. to Commonwealth\n\n (1) All property, rights and powers in or in connexion with Christmas Island which, immediately before the proclaimed date, were held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Queen in right of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, or by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Christmas Island, shall, from and including that date, be deemed to be held or enjoyed by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), all liabilities and obligations incurred before the proclaimed date by or on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of the Colony of Singapore or the Government of the Colony of Christmas Island in or in connexion with Christmas Island and subsisting immediately before that date shall, from and including that date, be deemed to have been incurred by or on behalf of the Commonwealth.\n (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to or in relation to liabilities or obligations of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony of Singapore for or in respect of:\n (a) the servicing or repayment of public loans raised by the Government of the Colony of Singapore;\n (b) the payment of pensions or retiring allowances in respect of service in Christmas Island;\n (c) the repayment of deposits with the Christmas Island branch of the Post Office Savings Bank of the Colony of Singapore or interest on those deposits; or\n (d) the meeting of deficiencies in assets of the Central Provident Fund of the Colony of Singapore required by the Central Provident Fund Ordinance of that Colony to be met out of the general revenues of that Colony.\n (4) In this section, property includes movable and immovable property.\n\n## Part III—Laws and Legislative Powers\n\n### Division 1—Laws of the Territory\n\n#### 7 The laws of the Territory\n\n (1) On and after 1 July 1992, the laws in force in the Territory from time to time are:\n (a) Acts as in force from time to time in or in relation to the Territory on and after that day; and\n (b) Ordinances made on or after that day as in force from time to time; and\n (c) laws as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8; and\n (d) applied Western Australian laws.\n (2) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not prevent any other law, including a law of a State, from applying in the Territory of its own force.\n\n#### 8 Operation of existing laws etc.\n\n (1) A law in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 is repealed unless it is specified in the Schedule.\n (2) Subject to subsection (3), a law that is specified in the Schedule (including any instruments made under that law) as in force in the Territory immediately before 1 July 1992 continues to be in force in the Territory on and after that day.\n (3) A law specified in the Schedule may be amended or repealed by an Ordinance.\n (4) In this section:\n\n> instruments includes regulations, rules and by‑laws.\n\n> law:\n\n (a) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity; and\n (b) does not include an Act.\n\n#### 8A Application of Western Australian laws\n\n (1) Subject to this section, section 8G and Part IVA, Western Australian laws are in force in the Territory.\n\n> Note: A Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under this section is an applied Western Australian law (see the definition in subsection 4(1)).\n\n (2) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it may be incorporated, amended or repealed by an Ordinance or a law made under an Ordinance.\n (3) An Ordinance may suspend the operation in the Territory of a law in force in the Territory under subsection (1) for such period as is specified in the Ordinance.\n (4) To the extent that a law is in force in the Territory under subsection (1), it has no effect so far as it is inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance.\n (5) For the purpose of subsection (4), a law is consistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance if the law is capable of operating concurrently with it.\n (6) A Western Australian law:\n (a) is a law in force in Western Australia from time to time; and\n (b) includes a principle or rule of common law or equity that is part of the law of Western Australia; and\n (c) does not include:\n (i) a Commonwealth Act or a provision of a Commonwealth Act; or\n (ii) an instrument (however described) made under a Commonwealth Act, or a provision of such an instrument.\n\n#### 8B Minister must table lists of applied Western Australian Acts\n\n (1) The Minister must cause a list of Acts of the Western Australian Parliament (WA Acts) to be prepared and tabled in each House of the Parliament for the following periods:\n (a) the period of 3 months beginning on 1 July 1992; and\n (b) each subsequent period of 6 months.\n (2) The list must specify the names of all WA Acts that are wholly or partly in force in the Territory under section 8A on the day specified in the list, and have not been specified in a previous list under this section. The specified day must be not more than 14 days before the day on which the list is to be tabled.\n (3) The list must include WA Acts whose operation has been suspended in accordance with subsection 8A(3).\n (4) The list must be tabled in each House of the Parliament before the end of the period to which the list relates. However, if the House concerned does not sit during any day in the last month of the period, the list may be tabled in that House within the next 15 sitting days of that House.\n\n#### 8C House may terminate application of Western Australian Acts in the Territory\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> terminate means terminate the operation of a WA Act in the Territory.\n\n> WA Act means an Act of the Western Australian Parliament that is specified in a list tabled under section 8B, or part of such an Act.\n\n> WA Acts list means a list prepared and tabled in a House of the Parliament under section 8B.\n\n (2) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to terminate the WA Act;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the time when the resolution was passed.\n (3) If:\n (a) a notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (i) within 15 sitting days after the tabling in that House of the WA Acts list specifying that WA Act; or\n (ii) if section 8D applies to that WA Act—within 3 months after that list was tabled; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the notice was given:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n then the WA Act is terminated from the expiration of that period of 15 sitting days.\n (4) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to terminate a WA Act specified in a WA Acts list has been given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House):\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n subsections (2) and (3) apply as if the WA Acts list had been tabled in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) The termination of a WA Act under subsection (2) or (3) has the same effect as the repeal of that WA Act, as a law of the Territory, by an Ordinance.\n (6) If:\n (a) a WA Act (the terminated Act) is terminated under subsection (2) or (3); and\n (b) the terminated Act repealed, in whole or in part, another WA Act or any other law that was in force in the Territory immediately before the terminated Act came into force in the Territory under section 8A;\n the termination of the terminated Act has the effect of reviving that other WA Act or law from and including the date of the termination, as if the terminated Act had not come into force in the Territory.\n (7) A notice of a motion, or a resolution, for the purposes of this section may relate to the termination of more than one WA Act.\n\n#### 8D Extension of period for giving notice of motion to terminate WA Act\n\n (1) This section provides for an extension of time for giving a notice of a motion (the termination notice) in a House of the Parliament to terminate one or more WA Acts that are specified in the first WA Acts list that is required by section 8A to be tabled in that House.\n (2) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) that House passes a resolution to extend the period;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (3) If:\n (a) within 15 sitting days after tabling of the WA Acts list in a House of the Parliament, a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in that House to extend the period for giving the termination notice in relation to one or more WA Acts specified in the extension notice; and\n (b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice has been given in that House:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the termination notice may be given in that House within 3 months after the tabling of the WA Acts list in that House.\n (4) If a notice of a motion (the extension notice) is given in a House of the Parliament (the notice House) for the purpose of obtaining an extension under subsection (2) or (3) but, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after the extension notice is given:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation:\n (i) the extension notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the following provisions apply:\n (c) the extension notice is taken to have been given in the notice House on the first sitting day of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation;\n (d) the termination notice may be given in that House within the first 15 sitting days of that House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation.\n (5) In this section, terminate, WA Act and WA Acts list have the same meanings as in section 8C.\n\n#### 8E Application of Commonwealth Acts\n\n (1) An Act (whether passed before or after this section’s commencement) extends to the Territory of its own force except so far as the Act or another Act expressly provides otherwise.\n (2) Except as provided by this Act, an Ordinance has no effect so far as it purports to affect the application of an Act in or in relation to the Territory.\n\n#### 8G Powers under the applied Western Australian laws\n\n (1) If, by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in:\n (a) a Minister of Western Australia; or\n (b) the Governor of Western Australia; or\n (c) the Governor‑in‑Council of Western Australia;\n that power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.\n (2) If:\n (a) by an applied Western Australian law, a power is vested in a person (other than a court officer of Western Australia) or an authority (other than a court of Western Australia); and\n (b) subsection (1) does not apply to that power;\n the power is, in relation to the Territory, vested in the Minister instead of the person or authority mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.\n (2A) To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a power vested in a person or authority by an applied Western Australian law does not include a reference to a power so vested, whether directly or indirectly, because of an Ordinance made for the purposes of subsection 8A(2).\n\n> Note: Under subsection 8A(2), an Ordinance may provide for the incorporation, amendment or repeal of an applied Western Australian law.\n\n Delegation etc.\n (3) If a power is vested in the Minister under subsection (1) or (2), the Minister may, in writing:\n (a) direct that the power is also vested in a person or authority; or\n (b) delegate the power to a person or authority.\n (4) A direction or delegation under subsection (3) is subject to such conditions as may be specified:\n (a) in the direction or delegation; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—in writing, by the Minister.\n (5) A person or authority in whom a power is vested by a direction under paragraph (3)(a) may delegate the power, in writing, to another person or authority:\n (a) if authorised to do so by the direction; or\n (b) in the case of a deemed direction under subsection (5A) or (5B)—if authorised to do so, in writing, by the Minister.\n Deemed vesting of powers—Western Australian persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5A) If a power is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in another person or authority in the circumstances that:\n (a) the person or authority is subject to an arrangement under section 8H and is:\n (i) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (ii) an authority established by or under a Western Australian law; or\n (iii) an officer or employee of such an authority; and\n (b) the power corresponds to a power that the person or authority is authorised, under a Western Australian law, to exercise in, or in a part of, Western Australia:\n (i) whether in the person’s or authority’s own right; or\n (ii) whether in the capacity of a delegate; or\n (iii) whether in any other way.\n Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island\n (5B) If a power mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table is vested in the Minister under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2), the Minister is taken to have directed under paragraph (3)(a) that the power is also vested in a person or authority mentioned in column 2 of the item.\n\n```html\n

Deemed vesting of powers—other persons and authorities exercising powers in Christmas Island

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Column 2

1

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police force (however described)

The Australian Federal Police

2

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a police officer (however described) holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position

A member or special member of the Australian Federal Police holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position in the Territory

3

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a body (a local government body) responsible for local government under such a law

The Christmas Island Shire

4

A power that corresponds to a power vested by a Western Australian law in a person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a particular kind of office or position on or with a local government body

A person holding, occupying or exercising the powers of a corresponding office or position on or with the Christmas Island Shire

5

A power that corresponds to a power, vested by a Western Australian law, that is prescribed by an Ordinance for the purposes of this item

A person or authority prescribed by that Ordinance

\n```\n\n (6) The Minister may, in writing, direct that subsection (5A) or (5B) does not apply to a specified power.\n (7) A direction under subsection (6) may be unconditional or subject to such conditions (if any) as are specified in the direction.\n Other matters\n (8) An instrument under this section may identify a power by reference to a class of powers.\n (9) The validity of the exercise of a power under an applied Western Australian law by a person or authority under this section is unaffected by the failure of the person or authority to hold a qualification required of a person or authority exercising that power under a Western Australian law.\n (10) This section does not affect the operation of section 8A in relation to the application in or in relation to the Territory of a law (a subordinate law) made under a Western Australian law, whether the subordinate law is made after this section’s commencement or not.\n (10A) Subject to any direction or delegation under this section, if a power vested by an applied Western Australian law in a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) is vested in another person or authority under this section, each reference in any applied Western Australian law to the first mentioned person or authority is taken to include a reference to the other person or authority.\n (11) An instrument under this section is not a legislative instrument.\n\n#### 8GA Applied Western Australian laws—effect of directions or delegations\n\n Scope\n (1) This section applies if:\n (a) the Minister directs, under paragraph 8G(3)(a), that all the powers of a person or authority (the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law are vested in another person or authority; or\n (b) the Minister delegates to a person or authority, under paragraph 8G(3)(b), all the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law; or\n (c) a person or authority delegates to another person or authority, under subsection 8G(5), all of the powers of a person or authority (also the first mentioned person or authority) under an applied Western Australian law.\n Addition of powers\n (2) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to give the first mentioned person or authority one or more additional powers under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the additional powers.\n Alteration of powers\n (3) If:\n (a) the applied Western Australian law is amended to alter the scope of one or more of the powers of the first mentioned person or authority under the law; and\n (b) the direction or delegation is in force immediately before the amendment takes effect;\n then, on and after the amendment taking effect, the direction or delegation is taken to include the powers as altered.\n Amendments of applied Western Australian laws\n (4) An applied Western Australian law is amended if:\n (a) the law is amended by an Ordinance; or\n (b) the corresponding Western Australian law is amended.\n\n#### 8H Arrangements with the Government of Western Australia\n\n (1) The Commonwealth may enter into arrangements with Western Australia for the effective application and administration of the laws in force in the Territory.\n (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), such an arrangement may provide for the exercise of powers by:\n (a) an officer or employee of Western Australia; or\n (b) an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law; or\n (c) an officer or employee of an authority of Western Australia established under a Western Australian law;\n in or in relation to the Territory.\n\n#### 8I Savings\n\n (1) The repeal of a law of the Territory by subsection 8(1) does not:\n (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time of the repeal; or\n (b) affect the previous operation of the law, or anything duly done under or permitted by the law; or\n (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the law; or\n (d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the law; or\n (e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment.\n (2) In spite of the repeal, the law continues in force for the purposes of:\n (a) the institution or continuation of any investigation or legal proceeding mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (b) the enforcement of any remedy mentioned in paragraph (1)(e); or\n (c) the imposition of any penalty, forfeiture or punishment mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).\n\n### Division 2—Legislative Powers of the Governor‑General\n\n#### 9 Legislative powers of the Governor‑General\n\n (1) Subject to this Act, the Governor‑General may make Ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the Territory.\n (2) Notice of the making of an Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette, and an Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance, come into operation on the date of publication of the notice.\n\n#### 10 Tabling of Ordinances in Parliament\n\n (1) Every Ordinance shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Ordinance is made and, if it is not so laid before each House of the Parliament, ceases to have effect.\n (2) If either House of the Parliament, in pursuance of a motion of which notice has been given within 15 sitting days after an Ordinance has been laid before that House, passes a resolution disallowing the Ordinance or a part of the Ordinance, the Ordinance or part so disallowed thereupon ceases to have effect.\n (3) If, at the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament, being notice given within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House:\n (a) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (b) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance or part, as the case may be, specified in the motion shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed.\n (3A) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance shall, for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), be deemed to have been laid before that first‑mentioned House on the first sitting day of that first‑mentioned House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be.\n (4) Where an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1), the disallowance of the Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the Ordinance, as the case may be, has the same effect as a repeal of the Ordinance.\n (4A) Where:\n (a) an Ordinance (in this subsection referred to as the relevant Ordinance) is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1); and\n (b) the relevant Ordinance repealed, in whole or in part, another Ordinance or any other law that was in force immediately before the relevant Ordinance came into operation;\n the disallowance of the relevant Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the relevant Ordinance, as the case may be, has the effect of reviving that other Ordinance or law, as the case may be, from and including the date of the disallowance or the date on which the relevant Ordinance ceased to have effect by virtue of that operation of subsection (1), as the case may be, as if the relevant Ordinance had not been made.\n (4B) A reference in subsection (4) or (4A) to an Ordinance shall be read as including a reference to a part of an Ordinance, and a reference in subsection (4A) to a law has a corresponding meaning.\n\n#### 10A Ordinance not to be re‑made while required to be tabled\n\n (1) Where an Ordinance (in this section called the original Ordinance) has been made, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the original Ordinance shall be made during the period defined by subsection (2) unless both Houses of the Parliament by resolution approve the making of an Ordinance containing a provision the same in substance as that provision of the original Ordinance.\n (2) The period referred to in subsection (1) is the period starting on the day on which the original Ordinance was made and ending at the end of 7 days after:\n (a) if the original Ordinance has been laid, in accordance with subsection 10(1), before both Houses of the Parliament on the same day—that day;\n (b) if the original Ordinance has been so laid before both Houses on different days—the later of those days; or\n (c) if the original Ordinance has not been so laid before both Houses—the last day on which subsection 10(1) could have been complied with.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n\n#### 10B Ordinance not to be re‑made while subject to disallowance\n\n (1) Where notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (a) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (b) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (c) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (d) subsection 10(3A) has applied in relation to the Ordinance.\n (2) Where:\n (a) because of subsection 10(3A), an Ordinance is deemed to have been laid before a House of the Parliament on a particular day; and\n (b) notice of a motion to disallow the Ordinance has been given in that House within 15 sitting days after that day;\n no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (c) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (d) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (e) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (f) subsection 10(3A) has applied again in relation to the Ordinance.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n (4) This section does not limit the operation of section 10A or 10C.\n (5) In this section:\n\n> Ordinance includes a part of an Ordinance.\n\n#### 10C Disallowed ordinance not to be re‑made unless resolution rescinded or House approves\n\n If an Ordinance or a part of an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under section 10, and an Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision so disallowed, or deemed to have been disallowed, is made within 6 months after the date of the disallowance, that provision has no effect, unless:\n (a) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, disallowed by resolution—the resolution has been rescinded by the House of the Parliament by which it was passed; or\n (b) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, deemed to have been disallowed—the House of the Parliament in which notice of the motion to disallow the Ordinance or part was given has approved, by resolution, the making of a provision the same in substance as the provision deemed to have been disallowed.\n\n#### 10D Regulations, rules and by‑laws\n\n (1) All regulations made under an Ordinance or any other law (not being an Act) in force in the Territory shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the regulations are made and, if they are not so laid before each House of the Parliament, have no effect.\n (1A) In subsection (1), a regulation made under a law in force in the Territory:\n (a) does not include a regulation of Western Australia as in force in the Territory under section 8A; and\n (b) includes a regulation made by a person or an authority empowered, under section 8G, to make the regulation under an applied Western Australian law.\n (2) Subsections 10(2) to (4B), inclusive, and sections 10A, 10B and 10C apply in relation to regulations laid before a House of the Parliament as if, in those provisions:\n (a) references to subsection 10(1) were references to subsection (1) of this section; and\n (b) references to an Ordinance were references to regulations; and\n (c) references to a provision of an Ordinance were references to a regulation.\n (3) In this section, regulations includes rules and by‑laws.\n\n## Part IV—The Judicial System\n\n#### 11 Supreme Court\n\n (1) There shall be a Supreme Court of the Territory, which shall be known as the Supreme Court of Christmas Island.\n (2) The Supreme Court shall be constituted as provided by Ordinance.\n (3) The Supreme Court is a superior court of record.\n\n#### 11AAA Minister may make arrangements with States\n\n The Minister may make arrangements with the government or an authority of a State for the purposes of the effective application of the provisions of this Act relating to sittings of the Supreme Court in that State in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction.\n\n#### 11AA Supreme Court may sit in a State\n\n (1) Subject to this section, the Supreme Court, in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, may sit in a State if to do so would not be contrary to the interests of justice.\n (2) The Supreme Court may, at any time after the presentation of an indictment for an offence against a law in force in the Territory and before the jury has returned its verdict, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order:\n (a) if the trial of the offence has not begun—that the trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order; and\n (b) if the trial of the offence has begun—that the trial be discontinued, the jury be discharged and a new trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order.\n (3) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in the Territory or in a State.\n (4) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in a State whether or not the accused is present but, if the accused is not present, the Court shall only make the order if:\n (a) the accused is represented; and\n (b) the Court is satisfied that the accused understands the effect of the order.\n (5) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (2), the Court may order that:\n (a) on the warrant of the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or such other person as the Supreme Court directs (being a person who holds an office in relation to the Court), the accused be removed to the place specified in the order, and held there, for the purposes of the trial of that person and for any related proceedings; and\n (b) on the summons of the Registrar, all persons required to attend to give evidence in the trial or proceedings attend at the place specified in the order.\n (6) When exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, the Supreme Court has, and may exercise, all the powers that it would have if it were exercising its criminal jurisdiction in the Territory.\n (7) A power exercised by the Supreme Court under subsection (6) shall be deemed to have been exercised by the Court at a sittings of the Court in the Territory.\n (8) Where the Supreme Court is sitting in a State for the purpose of a trial in that State, the Court may, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order that, for the purpose of viewing a place, or taking evidence from a person, in the Territory, or for a prescribed purpose:\n (a) the trial be adjourned for such time as the Court considers reasonable and necessary, and be continued in the Territory for so long as is necessary for that purpose;\n (b) on the warrant of the Registrar, the accused be returned to the Territory for the purposes of the continuation of the trial and any related proceedings; and\n (c) the jurors empanelled for the trial go to the Territory and remain there for such time as the Court directs for the purpose of continuing to attend as jurors in the trial.\n (9) A person who appears as a witness in the Supreme Court in a trial, or in related proceedings, held wholly or partly in a State, shall be paid by the Commonwealth such fees and allowances as would be payable to the person if the person had appeared as a witness in a trial held in the Territory.\n (10) Where:\n (a) the Supreme Court, when exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, makes an order, issues a warrant or summons or gives a judgment;\n (b) a person fails to comply with that order, warrant, summons or judgment; and\n (c) that failure would have constituted an offence against a law in force in the Territory if it had occurred there;\n the person commits an offence against this Act punishable by a penalty that is the same as the penalty for the offence referred to in paragraph (c).\n\n#### 11A Registries and Registrars\n\n Without limiting the provision that may otherwise be made by Ordinance in relation to the Supreme Court, provision may be made by Ordinance for or in relation to:\n (a) the establishment and operation of registries of that Court at places outside the Territory; and\n (b) where a power is conferred or imposed by law on a person who holds an office in relation to that Court—the exercise of that power at a place outside the Territory.\n\n#### 12 Jurisdiction etc. of the Supreme Court\n\n (1) Except as provided in this Part, the jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the Supreme Court shall be as provided by or under Ordinance.\n (2) The trial on indictment of an offence against a law in force in the Territory shall be by judge and jury.\n\n#### 12A Juries outside the Territory\n\n (1) Subject to this section and the regulations, the laws in force in a State relating to:\n (a) the qualification of jurors;\n (b) the preparation of jury lists and jury panels;\n (c) the summoning, attendance and empanelling of juries;\n (d) the number of jurors;\n (e) the right of challenge;\n (f) the discharge of juries;\n (g) the disagreement of jurors;\n (h) the remuneration of jurors; and\n (j) other matters concerning jurors (other than matters dealt with under section 12B) after they have been summoned, appointed or sworn;\n that apply for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of that State sitting at a place in that State, extend and shall be applied, with such changes as are necessary, for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of the Territory when sitting at that place.\n (2) For the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly at a place in a State, the jury list that would be used for the purposes of a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of that State sitting in the same place shall be used as well for the purposes of the trial in the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n (3) The precept for a jury shall be issued by the Registrar, or such other person holding an office in relation to the Supreme Court as the Court directs, and the Sheriff or such other person as the Court directs shall prepare the jury panels and summon jurors.\n (4) The person who has custody of the jury list referred to in subsection (2) in the State where the Supreme Court is holding a trial shall:\n (a) give a copy of that list to the person directed by the Court to prepare a jury panel; and\n (b) indicate on that copy the names of the persons who, to his or her knowledge, would not, if summoned at the time the copy is given, be liable to serve as jurors under the law in force in that State.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay such reasonable fee as may be demanded for a copy of a list referred to in paragraph (4)(a).\n (6) Any remuneration required to be paid to a person who serves, or is summoned to serve, on a jury in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall be paid by the Commonwealth.\n (7) Where a law applied by this Act for the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court requires an act or thing to be done by a person specified in that law, the Court may, if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of the effective application of the law, order that a person who holds a specified office in relation to the Court do that act or thing, and the law shall be deemed to apply to that person accordingly.\n (8) The regulations may provide that such provisions of a law referred to in subsection (1) as are specified in the regulations do not apply or apply subject to such modifications as are specified in the regulations.\n (9) In this section, jury list means the roll, list, or book on or in which the names of persons liable to serve as jurors appear.\n\n#### 12B Offences in relation to jurors\n\n (1) A person who is served with a summons to attend as a juror in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall not:\n (a) fail to attend in accordance with the summons; or\n (b) having so attended, withdraw from the presence of the Court, without the permission of the Sheriff, before being discharged or excused by a judge of the Court or the Sheriff.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 1 month or 2 penalty units.\n\n (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.\n\n> Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (1A) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).\n\n (2) A person shall not personate a person who is a juror with the intention of sitting on a jury.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units.\n\n (3) A person shall not:\n (a) engage in conduct that results in the corruption of a juror;\n (b) make or promise a payment to a juror, or confer or promise to confer any other benefit on a juror in relation to the person’s service as a juror, other than a payment of the ordinary remuneration of the juror’s employment; or\n (c) being a juror, accept such a payment or benefit.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.\n\n (4) In this section:\n\n> engage in conduct means:\n\n (a) do an act; or\n (b) omit to perform an act.\n\n> juror includes a person whose name is on a jury panel.\n\n## Part IVA—Conferral of Territory Jurisdiction on Western Australian courts etc.\n\n#### 14A Definitions\n\n In this Part:\n\n> Family Court of Western Australia means the Court established by the Family Court Act 1975 of Western Australia.\n\n> transfer day means the day on which this Part commences.\n\n#### 14B Conferral of jurisdiction on Western Australian courts and court officers\n\n (1) Subject to this Part and any law in force in the Territory, the courts and court officers of Western Australia have jurisdiction (including appellate jurisdiction) in and in relation to the Territory as if the Territory were part of Western Australia.\n (2) Subject to section 14E, a court or court officer of Western Australia may, in exercising jurisdiction under this section, sit in the Territory or Western Australia.\n (3) Subject to any law in force in the Territory, the practice and procedure applicable to a court or court officer exercising jurisdiction under this section are to be the practice and procedure as in force from time to time in relation to that court or court officer in Western Australia.\n\n#### 14C Transfer of Supreme Court jurisdiction\n\n (1) This section applies to the jurisdiction vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court immediately before the transfer day, except in relation to matters for which:\n (a) proceedings were pending in that Court immediately before that day; or\n (b) proceedings had been completed in that Court before that day.\n (2) On and after the transfer day, the jurisdiction:\n (a) ceases to be vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court; and\n (b) is vested in:\n (i) if the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (ii) if the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (iii) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires).\n\n#### 14D Transfer of pending proceedings\n\n (1) On and after the transfer day, the parties to proceedings in a matter pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory (Territory Court) may apply to that Court to transfer the proceedings to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (2) If the Territory Court decides that it is not contrary to the interests of justice to grant the application, the Court is to transfer the proceedings to the relevant Court (State Court) and:\n (a) the State Court may hear and determine the proceedings; and\n (b) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (c) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (d) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n\n#### 14E Application of provisions of this Act to courts of Western Australia\n\n In relation to the exercise of jurisdiction by the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge or an officer mentioned in this Part, sections 11AA, 12A, 12B, 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E and 18F have effect as if, in those provisions:\n (a) a reference to the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia or the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (b) a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia or of the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (c) a reference to a magistrate of the Territory included a reference to a magistrate (however described) of Western Australia who has jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under a law of the Territory; and\n (d) a reference to the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of a judge of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory; and\n (e) a reference to the Sheriff of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory.\n\n#### 14F Savings—jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the Territory on and after transfer day\n\n Part IVA of this Act as in force immediately before the transfer day continues in force in relation to any matter in respect of which the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court continues to have jurisdiction on or after that day.\n\n#### 14G Abolition of Supreme Court of the Territory\n\n The Supreme Court of the Territory is abolished on a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day on which no person holds office as a Judge of that Court.\n\n#### 14H Transitional provisions after abolition of Supreme Court\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> proclaimed day means the day fixed by Proclamation under section 14G.\n\n> State Court means the Court to which proceedings are transferred under subsection (2).\n\n> Territory Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n (2) As soon as practicable after no person holds office as a Judge of the Territory Court, the Registrar of the Court must transfer all proceedings in the Court (including completed proceedings) to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (3) If proceedings are transferred under subsection (2):\n (a) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (b) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (c) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n (4) If proceedings transferred under subsection (2) were not completed before the proclaimed day, the State Court may:\n (a) hear, or further hear, the proceedings; and\n (b) determine the proceedings; and\n (c) have regard to any evidence or argument in the proceedings in the Territory Court.\n (5) On and after the proclaimed day, this Act has effect as if sections 11, 11AAA and 11A were repealed and subsection 12(1) were omitted.\n\n#### 14J References to courts of Territory—transitional\n\n (1) Unless the contrary intention appears:\n (a) a reference in any Act (including a reference in a provision of this Act other than this Part) to the Supreme Court of the Territory is taken to include a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act; and\n (b) a reference in any Act to courts of the Territory is taken to include a reference to courts of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act.\n (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference in the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.\n\n## Part VI—Miscellaneous\n\n#### 17 Appointment of officers\n\n (1) In spite of the Public Service Act 1999, a law of the Territory may make provision for and in relation to the appointment and employment of persons for the purposes of the government of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the appointment or employment of persons under the Public Service Act 1999 in its application to the Territory.\n\n#### 18 Arrangements in relation to prisoners, mental patients etc.\n\n (1) Provision may be made by Ordinance:\n (a) for authorizing the making of arrangements by the Minister with the Government or an authority of a place outside the Territory (including a State or another Territory) for or in relation to:\n (i) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, for the purpose of serving their sentences in that place; or\n (ii) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons found to be of unsound mind, for the purpose of detention and treatment in that place; and\n (b) for or in relation to the carrying out of any such arrangements and the custody and detention of persons during their removal in pursuance of the arrangements.\n (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the Governor‑General has commuted to a term of imprisonment the sentence of a person who has been sentenced to death by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, that person shall be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment for that term by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section affects the application, in respect of the Territory, of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923.\n\n#### 18A Removal of accused to State to stand trial\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(5)(a) in relation to an accused, the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or a person directed by the Court under that paragraph, may:\n (a) by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the Territory to the prison specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison; and\n (b) by warrant directed to that officer, require that officer to detain the accused in that prison pursuant to this section.\n (2) A warrant directed to all constables may be executed by any constable.\n (3) An accused delivered into custody at a prison in a State under a warrant under subsection (1) may, subject to any order of the Supreme Court, be detained in that prison or any other prison in that State for so long as the accused’s detention is necessary for the execution of the order.\n (4) An accused may, while so in custody, be dealt with in the same manner, and is subject to the same laws, as if the warrant issued under subsection (1) had been issued under a law in force in the relevant State relating to holding persons in custody pending the trial of those persons.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay to the relevant State the reasonable expenses of maintaining an accused detained in a prison under a warrant under subsection (1).\n\n#### 18B Accused to be conveyed to Court\n\n (1) Where an accused has been removed to a State under this Act, a judge of the Supreme Court may order that the accused be conveyed to the Court for the purposes of trial in that State, and any related proceedings.\n (2) Where a judge of the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (1), the person who has the custody of the accused shall release the accused to a constable to enable the accused to be conveyed to the Court in accordance with that order.\n\n#### 18C Return of accused to Territory\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(8)(b), the Registrar may, by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the State in which the Court made the order to the prison in the Territory specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison.\n (2) A warrant referred to in subsection (1) may be executed by any constable.\n\n#### 18D Person deemed to be prisoner under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been tried in relation to an indictable offence against a law in force in the Territory by the Supreme Court sitting in a State; and\n (b) the person is convicted of that offence and sentenced to imprisonment;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (c) to be a prisoner within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (d) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and the provisions of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.\n\n#### 18E Person deemed to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where a person who has been removed to a State under this Act:\n (a) is found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offence;\n (b) is found or certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be unfit, on the ground of insanity, to be tried for the offence; or\n (c) is convicted of an offence and afterwards certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be insane;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (d) to be a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (e) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and sections 9 and 10A of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.\n\n#### 18F Repatriation of person tried in a State\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been removed to a State under this Act;\n (b) the trial of the person in the Supreme Court sitting in that State has concluded; and\n (c) the person is acquitted (other than on the ground of insanity) or is not, after the date on which the trial concludes, required to serve a sentence of imprisonment;\n the Commonwealth shall, on application by the person to the Secretary, provide the person with means to enable the person to return to the Territory.\n\n#### 20 Grant of pardon, remission etc.\n\n (1) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant to a person convicted by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction under a law in force in the Territory a pardon, either free or conditional, or a remission or commutation of sentence, or a respite, for such period as the Governor‑General thinks fit, of the execution of sentence, and may remit fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or incurred under a law in force in the Territory.\n (2) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant a pardon to an accomplice who gives evidence that leads to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any of the principal offenders.\n\n#### 21 Exemption from Customs duties of goods produced in the Territory\n\n Duties of Customs are not chargeable on goods imported into Australia from the Territory if the goods:\n (a) are the produce or manufacture of the Territory;\n (b) have been shipped in the Territory for export to Australia; and\n (c) are not goods which, if manufactured or produced in Australia, would be subject to a Duty of Excise.\n\n#### 21A Disposal of land\n\n (1) The application of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 in relation to land in the Territory does not prevent or affect the making or operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law of the Territory (including the operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law made before the commencement of this section) by virtue of which:\n (a) lands in the Territory acquired by or vested in the Commonwealth may be disposed of or otherwise dealt with;\n (b) instruments, receipts and other documents in relation to any such lands may be executed; or\n (c) rights, duties and liabilities in relation to any such lands are or may be acquired, conferred or imposed.\n (2) Any Ordinances or other laws of the Territory referred to in subsection (1) which provide for the acquisition of land shall provide that such land shall not be acquired otherwise than on just terms.\n\n#### 22 Audit\n\n The accounts of the Territory shall be subject to inspection and audit by the Auditor‑General for the Commonwealth.\n\n#### 22A Ordinances—incorporation of matters by reference\n\n (1) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003, an Ordinance, or a law made under such an Ordinance, may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, a provision of a Western Australian law (whether or not the law is an applied Western Australian law), as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.\n (2) Subsection (1) applies to a provision of a Western Australian law that is not an Act of the Western Australian Parliament only if the provision is subject to disallowance (however described) in Western Australia.\n\n#### 23 Regulations\n\n The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and, in particular:\n (a) making provision for and in relation to sittings of the Supreme Court in a State for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice; and\n (b) prescribing penalties, of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding 15 penalty units, for offences against the regulations; and\n (c) making saving or transitional provisions in relation to the abolition of any court established by an Ordinance.","sortOrder":21},{"sectionNumber":"9","sectionType":"section","heading":"Legislative powers of the Governor‑General","content":"#### 9 Legislative powers of the Governor‑General\n\n (1) Subject to this Act, the Governor‑General may make Ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the Territory.\n (2) Notice of the making of an Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette, and an Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance, come into operation on the date of publication of the notice.","sortOrder":22},{"sectionNumber":"10","sectionType":"section","heading":"Tabling of Ordinances in Parliament","content":"#### 10 Tabling of Ordinances in Parliament\n\n (1) Every Ordinance shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Ordinance is made and, if it is not so laid before each House of the Parliament, ceases to have effect.\n (2) If either House of the Parliament, in pursuance of a motion of which notice has been given within 15 sitting days after an Ordinance has been laid before that House, passes a resolution disallowing the Ordinance or a part of the Ordinance, the Ordinance or part so disallowed thereupon ceases to have effect.\n (3) If, at the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament, being notice given within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House:\n (a) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (b) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance or part, as the case may be, specified in the motion shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed.\n (3A) If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament:\n (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and\n (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be:\n (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or\n (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;\n the Ordinance shall, for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), be deemed to have been laid before that first‑mentioned House on the first sitting day of that first‑mentioned House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be.\n (4) Where an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1), the disallowance of the Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the Ordinance, as the case may be, has the same effect as a repeal of the Ordinance.\n (4A) Where:\n (a) an Ordinance (in this subsection referred to as the relevant Ordinance) is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under this section or ceases to have effect by virtue of the operation of subsection (1); and\n (b) the relevant Ordinance repealed, in whole or in part, another Ordinance or any other law that was in force immediately before the relevant Ordinance came into operation;\n the disallowance of the relevant Ordinance or the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the relevant Ordinance, as the case may be, has the effect of reviving that other Ordinance or law, as the case may be, from and including the date of the disallowance or the date on which the relevant Ordinance ceased to have effect by virtue of that operation of subsection (1), as the case may be, as if the relevant Ordinance had not been made.\n (4B) A reference in subsection (4) or (4A) to an Ordinance shall be read as including a reference to a part of an Ordinance, and a reference in subsection (4A) to a law has a corresponding meaning.","sortOrder":23},{"sectionNumber":"10A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Ordinance not to be re‑made while required to be tabled","content":"#### 10A Ordinance not to be re‑made while required to be tabled\n\n (1) Where an Ordinance (in this section called the original Ordinance) has been made, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the original Ordinance shall be made during the period defined by subsection (2) unless both Houses of the Parliament by resolution approve the making of an Ordinance containing a provision the same in substance as that provision of the original Ordinance.\n (2) The period referred to in subsection (1) is the period starting on the day on which the original Ordinance was made and ending at the end of 7 days after:\n (a) if the original Ordinance has been laid, in accordance with subsection 10(1), before both Houses of the Parliament on the same day—that day;\n (b) if the original Ordinance has been so laid before both Houses on different days—the later of those days; or\n (c) if the original Ordinance has not been so laid before both Houses—the last day on which subsection 10(1) could have been complied with.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.","sortOrder":24},{"sectionNumber":"10B","sectionType":"section","heading":"Ordinance not to be re‑made while subject to disallowance","content":"#### 10B Ordinance not to be re‑made while subject to disallowance\n\n (1) Where notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (a) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (b) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (c) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (d) subsection 10(3A) has applied in relation to the Ordinance.\n (2) Where:\n (a) because of subsection 10(3A), an Ordinance is deemed to have been laid before a House of the Parliament on a particular day; and\n (b) notice of a motion to disallow the Ordinance has been given in that House within 15 sitting days after that day;\n no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the first‑mentioned Ordinance shall be made unless:\n (c) the notice has been withdrawn;\n (d) the Ordinance is deemed to have been disallowed under subsection 10(3);\n (e) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or\n (f) subsection 10(3A) has applied again in relation to the Ordinance.\n (3) If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.\n (4) This section does not limit the operation of section 10A or 10C.\n (5) In this section:\n\n> Ordinance includes a part of an Ordinance.","sortOrder":25},{"sectionNumber":"10C","sectionType":"section","heading":"Disallowed ordinance not to be re‑made unless resolution rescinded or House approves","content":"#### 10C Disallowed ordinance not to be re‑made unless resolution rescinded or House approves\n\n If an Ordinance or a part of an Ordinance is disallowed, or is deemed to have been disallowed, under section 10, and an Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision so disallowed, or deemed to have been disallowed, is made within 6 months after the date of the disallowance, that provision has no effect, unless:\n (a) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, disallowed by resolution—the resolution has been rescinded by the House of the Parliament by which it was passed; or\n (b) in the case of an Ordinance, or a part of an Ordinance, deemed to have been disallowed—the House of the Parliament in which notice of the motion to disallow the Ordinance or part was given has approved, by resolution, the making of a provision the same in substance as the provision deemed to have been disallowed.","sortOrder":26},{"sectionNumber":"10D","sectionType":"section","heading":"Regulations, rules and by‑laws","content":"#### 10D Regulations, rules and by‑laws\n\n (1) All regulations made under an Ordinance or any other law (not being an Act) in force in the Territory shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the regulations are made and, if they are not so laid before each House of the Parliament, have no effect.\n (1A) In subsection (1), a regulation made under a law in force in the Territory:\n (a) does not include a regulation of Western Australia as in force in the Territory under section 8A; and\n (b) includes a regulation made by a person or an authority empowered, under section 8G, to make the regulation under an applied Western Australian law.\n (2) Subsections 10(2) to (4B), inclusive, and sections 10A, 10B and 10C apply in relation to regulations laid before a House of the Parliament as if, in those provisions:\n (a) references to subsection 10(1) were references to subsection (1) of this section; and\n (b) references to an Ordinance were references to regulations; and\n (c) references to a provision of an Ordinance were references to a regulation.\n (3) In this section, regulations includes rules and by‑laws.","sortOrder":27},{"sectionNumber":"Part IV","sectionType":"part","heading":"The Judicial System","content":"## Part IV—The Judicial System","sortOrder":28},{"sectionNumber":"11","sectionType":"section","heading":"Supreme Court","content":"#### 11 Supreme Court\n\n (1) There shall be a Supreme Court of the Territory, which shall be known as the Supreme Court of Christmas Island.\n (2) The Supreme Court shall be constituted as provided by Ordinance.\n (3) The Supreme Court is a superior court of record.","sortOrder":29},{"sectionNumber":"11AAA","sectionType":"section","heading":"Minister may make arrangements with States","content":"#### 11AAA Minister may make arrangements with States\n\n The Minister may make arrangements with the government or an authority of a State for the purposes of the effective application of the provisions of this Act relating to sittings of the Supreme Court in that State in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction.","sortOrder":30},{"sectionNumber":"11AA","sectionType":"section","heading":"Supreme Court may sit in a State","content":"#### 11AA Supreme Court may sit in a State\n\n (1) Subject to this section, the Supreme Court, in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, may sit in a State if to do so would not be contrary to the interests of justice.\n (2) The Supreme Court may, at any time after the presentation of an indictment for an offence against a law in force in the Territory and before the jury has returned its verdict, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order:\n (a) if the trial of the offence has not begun—that the trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order; and\n (b) if the trial of the offence has begun—that the trial be discontinued, the jury be discharged and a new trial be held in a State, and at a time and place, specified in the order.\n (3) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in the Territory or in a State.\n (4) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (2) at a sittings of the Court in a State whether or not the accused is present but, if the accused is not present, the Court shall only make the order if:\n (a) the accused is represented; and\n (b) the Court is satisfied that the accused understands the effect of the order.\n (5) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (2), the Court may order that:\n (a) on the warrant of the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or such other person as the Supreme Court directs (being a person who holds an office in relation to the Court), the accused be removed to the place specified in the order, and held there, for the purposes of the trial of that person and for any related proceedings; and\n (b) on the summons of the Registrar, all persons required to attend to give evidence in the trial or proceedings attend at the place specified in the order.\n (6) When exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, the Supreme Court has, and may exercise, all the powers that it would have if it were exercising its criminal jurisdiction in the Territory.\n (7) A power exercised by the Supreme Court under subsection (6) shall be deemed to have been exercised by the Court at a sittings of the Court in the Territory.\n (8) Where the Supreme Court is sitting in a State for the purpose of a trial in that State, the Court may, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order that, for the purpose of viewing a place, or taking evidence from a person, in the Territory, or for a prescribed purpose:\n (a) the trial be adjourned for such time as the Court considers reasonable and necessary, and be continued in the Territory for so long as is necessary for that purpose;\n (b) on the warrant of the Registrar, the accused be returned to the Territory for the purposes of the continuation of the trial and any related proceedings; and\n (c) the jurors empanelled for the trial go to the Territory and remain there for such time as the Court directs for the purpose of continuing to attend as jurors in the trial.\n (9) A person who appears as a witness in the Supreme Court in a trial, or in related proceedings, held wholly or partly in a State, shall be paid by the Commonwealth such fees and allowances as would be payable to the person if the person had appeared as a witness in a trial held in the Territory.\n (10) Where:\n (a) the Supreme Court, when exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, makes an order, issues a warrant or summons or gives a judgment;\n (b) a person fails to comply with that order, warrant, summons or judgment; and\n (c) that failure would have constituted an offence against a law in force in the Territory if it had occurred there;\n the person commits an offence against this Act punishable by a penalty that is the same as the penalty for the offence referred to in paragraph (c).","sortOrder":31},{"sectionNumber":"11A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Registries and Registrars","content":"#### 11A Registries and Registrars\n\n Without limiting the provision that may otherwise be made by Ordinance in relation to the Supreme Court, provision may be made by Ordinance for or in relation to:\n (a) the establishment and operation of registries of that Court at places outside the Territory; and\n (b) where a power is conferred or imposed by law on a person who holds an office in relation to that Court—the exercise of that power at a place outside the Territory.","sortOrder":32},{"sectionNumber":"12","sectionType":"section","heading":"Jurisdiction etc. of the Supreme Court","content":"#### 12 Jurisdiction etc. of the Supreme Court\n\n (1) Except as provided in this Part, the jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the Supreme Court shall be as provided by or under Ordinance.\n (2) The trial on indictment of an offence against a law in force in the Territory shall be by judge and jury.","sortOrder":33},{"sectionNumber":"12A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Juries outside the Territory","content":"#### 12A Juries outside the Territory\n\n (1) Subject to this section and the regulations, the laws in force in a State relating to:\n (a) the qualification of jurors;\n (b) the preparation of jury lists and jury panels;\n (c) the summoning, attendance and empanelling of juries;\n (d) the number of jurors;\n (e) the right of challenge;\n (f) the discharge of juries;\n (g) the disagreement of jurors;\n (h) the remuneration of jurors; and\n (j) other matters concerning jurors (other than matters dealt with under section 12B) after they have been summoned, appointed or sworn;\n that apply for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of that State sitting at a place in that State, extend and shall be applied, with such changes as are necessary, for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of the Territory when sitting at that place.\n (2) For the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly at a place in a State, the jury list that would be used for the purposes of a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of that State sitting in the same place shall be used as well for the purposes of the trial in the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n (3) The precept for a jury shall be issued by the Registrar, or such other person holding an office in relation to the Supreme Court as the Court directs, and the Sheriff or such other person as the Court directs shall prepare the jury panels and summon jurors.\n (4) The person who has custody of the jury list referred to in subsection (2) in the State where the Supreme Court is holding a trial shall:\n (a) give a copy of that list to the person directed by the Court to prepare a jury panel; and\n (b) indicate on that copy the names of the persons who, to his or her knowledge, would not, if summoned at the time the copy is given, be liable to serve as jurors under the law in force in that State.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay such reasonable fee as may be demanded for a copy of a list referred to in paragraph (4)(a).\n (6) Any remuneration required to be paid to a person who serves, or is summoned to serve, on a jury in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall be paid by the Commonwealth.\n (7) Where a law applied by this Act for the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court requires an act or thing to be done by a person specified in that law, the Court may, if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of the effective application of the law, order that a person who holds a specified office in relation to the Court do that act or thing, and the law shall be deemed to apply to that person accordingly.\n (8) The regulations may provide that such provisions of a law referred to in subsection (1) as are specified in the regulations do not apply or apply subject to such modifications as are specified in the regulations.\n (9) In this section, jury list means the roll, list, or book on or in which the names of persons liable to serve as jurors appear.","sortOrder":34},{"sectionNumber":"12B","sectionType":"section","heading":"Offences in relation to jurors","content":"#### 12B Offences in relation to jurors\n\n (1) A person who is served with a summons to attend as a juror in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall not:\n (a) fail to attend in accordance with the summons; or\n (b) having so attended, withdraw from the presence of the Court, without the permission of the Sheriff, before being discharged or excused by a judge of the Court or the Sheriff.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 1 month or 2 penalty units.\n\n (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.\n\n> Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (1A) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).\n\n (2) A person shall not personate a person who is a juror with the intention of sitting on a jury.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units.\n\n (3) A person shall not:\n (a) engage in conduct that results in the corruption of a juror;\n (b) make or promise a payment to a juror, or confer or promise to confer any other benefit on a juror in relation to the person’s service as a juror, other than a payment of the ordinary remuneration of the juror’s employment; or\n (c) being a juror, accept such a payment or benefit.\n\nPenalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.\n\n (4) In this section:\n\n> engage in conduct means:\n\n (a) do an act; or\n (b) omit to perform an act.\n\n> juror includes a person whose name is on a jury panel.","sortOrder":35},{"sectionNumber":"Part IVA","sectionType":"part","heading":"Conferral of Territory Jurisdiction on Western Australian courts etc.","content":"## Part IVA—Conferral of Territory Jurisdiction on Western Australian courts etc.","sortOrder":36},{"sectionNumber":"14A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Definitions","content":"#### 14A Definitions\n\n In this Part:\n\n> Family Court of Western Australia means the Court established by the Family Court Act 1975 of Western Australia.\n\n> transfer day means the day on which this Part commences.","sortOrder":37},{"sectionNumber":"14B","sectionType":"section","heading":"Conferral of jurisdiction on Western Australian courts and court officers","content":"#### 14B Conferral of jurisdiction on Western Australian courts and court officers\n\n (1) Subject to this Part and any law in force in the Territory, the courts and court officers of Western Australia have jurisdiction (including appellate jurisdiction) in and in relation to the Territory as if the Territory were part of Western Australia.\n (2) Subject to section 14E, a court or court officer of Western Australia may, in exercising jurisdiction under this section, sit in the Territory or Western Australia.\n (3) Subject to any law in force in the Territory, the practice and procedure applicable to a court or court officer exercising jurisdiction under this section are to be the practice and procedure as in force from time to time in relation to that court or court officer in Western Australia.","sortOrder":38},{"sectionNumber":"14C","sectionType":"section","heading":"Transfer of Supreme Court jurisdiction","content":"#### 14C Transfer of Supreme Court jurisdiction\n\n (1) This section applies to the jurisdiction vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court immediately before the transfer day, except in relation to matters for which:\n (a) proceedings were pending in that Court immediately before that day; or\n (b) proceedings had been completed in that Court before that day.\n (2) On and after the transfer day, the jurisdiction:\n (a) ceases to be vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court; and\n (b) is vested in:\n (i) if the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the Family Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (ii) if the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court would, apart from this section, have the jurisdiction under subsection 14B(1)—the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires); or\n (iii) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia or a Judge of that Court (as the case requires).","sortOrder":39},{"sectionNumber":"14D","sectionType":"section","heading":"Transfer of pending proceedings","content":"#### 14D Transfer of pending proceedings\n\n (1) On and after the transfer day, the parties to proceedings in a matter pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory (Territory Court) may apply to that Court to transfer the proceedings to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (2) If the Territory Court decides that it is not contrary to the interests of justice to grant the application, the Court is to transfer the proceedings to the relevant Court (State Court) and:\n (a) the State Court may hear and determine the proceedings; and\n (b) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (c) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (d) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.","sortOrder":40},{"sectionNumber":"14E","sectionType":"section","heading":"Application of provisions of this Act to courts of Western Australia","content":"#### 14E Application of provisions of this Act to courts of Western Australia\n\n In relation to the exercise of jurisdiction by the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the District Court of Western Australia or a Judge or an officer mentioned in this Part, sections 11AA, 12A, 12B, 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E and 18F have effect as if, in those provisions:\n (a) a reference to the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia or the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (b) a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia or of the District Court of Western Australia; and\n (c) a reference to a magistrate of the Territory included a reference to a magistrate (however described) of Western Australia who has jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under a law of the Territory; and\n (d) a reference to the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of a judge of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory; and\n (e) a reference to the Sheriff of the Supreme Court of the Territory included a reference to:\n (i) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the application of the Supreme Court Act 1935 of Western Australia in the Territory; or\n (ii) a person who has the powers of the sheriff of the District Court of Western Australia in the application of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 of Western Australia in the Territory.","sortOrder":41},{"sectionNumber":"14F","sectionType":"section","heading":"Savings—jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the Territory on and after transfer day","content":"#### 14F Savings—jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the Territory on and after transfer day\n\n Part IVA of this Act as in force immediately before the transfer day continues in force in relation to any matter in respect of which the Supreme Court of the Territory or a Judge of that Court continues to have jurisdiction on or after that day.","sortOrder":42},{"sectionNumber":"14G","sectionType":"section","heading":"Abolition of Supreme Court of the Territory","content":"#### 14G Abolition of Supreme Court of the Territory\n\n The Supreme Court of the Territory is abolished on a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day on which no person holds office as a Judge of that Court.","sortOrder":43},{"sectionNumber":"14H","sectionType":"section","heading":"Transitional provisions after abolition of Supreme Court","content":"#### 14H Transitional provisions after abolition of Supreme Court\n\n (1) In this section:\n\n> proclaimed day means the day fixed by Proclamation under section 14G.\n\n> State Court means the Court to which proceedings are transferred under subsection (2).\n\n> Territory Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory.\n\n (2) As soon as practicable after no person holds office as a Judge of the Territory Court, the Registrar of the Court must transfer all proceedings in the Court (including completed proceedings) to:\n (a) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Western Australia—the Family Court of Western Australia; or\n (b) if the proceedings relate only to a matter of a kind that is within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Western Australia—the District Court of Western Australia; or\n (c) in any other case—the Supreme Court of Western Australia.\n (3) If proceedings are transferred under subsection (2):\n (a) all documents filed of record in the Territory Court in the proceedings are to be transmitted to the State Court; and\n (b) any money lodged with the Territory Court in relation to the proceedings is to be transferred to the State Court and is taken to be money lodged with the State Court in relation to the proceedings; and\n (c) everything done in or in relation to the proceedings in the Territory Court is taken to have been done in the State Court.\n (4) If proceedings transferred under subsection (2) were not completed before the proclaimed day, the State Court may:\n (a) hear, or further hear, the proceedings; and\n (b) determine the proceedings; and\n (c) have regard to any evidence or argument in the proceedings in the Territory Court.\n (5) On and after the proclaimed day, this Act has effect as if sections 11, 11AAA and 11A were repealed and subsection 12(1) were omitted.","sortOrder":44},{"sectionNumber":"14J","sectionType":"section","heading":"References to courts of Territory—transitional","content":"#### 14J References to courts of Territory—transitional\n\n (1) Unless the contrary intention appears:\n (a) a reference in any Act (including a reference in a provision of this Act other than this Part) to the Supreme Court of the Territory is taken to include a reference to the Supreme Court of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act; and\n (b) a reference in any Act to courts of the Territory is taken to include a reference to courts of Western Australia exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Territory under this Act.\n (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference in the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.","sortOrder":45},{"sectionNumber":"Part VI","sectionType":"part","heading":"Miscellaneous","content":"## Part VI—Miscellaneous","sortOrder":46},{"sectionNumber":"17","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appointment of officers","content":"#### 17 Appointment of officers\n\n (1) In spite of the Public Service Act 1999, a law of the Territory may make provision for and in relation to the appointment and employment of persons for the purposes of the government of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the appointment or employment of persons under the Public Service Act 1999 in its application to the Territory.","sortOrder":47},{"sectionNumber":"18","sectionType":"section","heading":"Arrangements in relation to prisoners, mental patients etc.","content":"#### 18 Arrangements in relation to prisoners, mental patients etc.\n\n (1) Provision may be made by Ordinance:\n (a) for authorizing the making of arrangements by the Minister with the Government or an authority of a place outside the Territory (including a State or another Territory) for or in relation to:\n (i) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, for the purpose of serving their sentences in that place; or\n (ii) the removal from the Territory to that place of persons found to be of unsound mind, for the purpose of detention and treatment in that place; and\n (b) for or in relation to the carrying out of any such arrangements and the custody and detention of persons during their removal in pursuance of the arrangements.\n (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the Governor‑General has commuted to a term of imprisonment the sentence of a person who has been sentenced to death by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory, that person shall be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment for that term by a court having jurisdiction in respect of the Territory.\n (3) Nothing in this section affects the application, in respect of the Territory, of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923.","sortOrder":48},{"sectionNumber":"18A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Removal of accused to State to stand trial","content":"#### 18A Removal of accused to State to stand trial\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(5)(a) in relation to an accused, the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or a person directed by the Court under that paragraph, may:\n (a) by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the Territory to the prison specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison; and\n (b) by warrant directed to that officer, require that officer to detain the accused in that prison pursuant to this section.\n (2) A warrant directed to all constables may be executed by any constable.\n (3) An accused delivered into custody at a prison in a State under a warrant under subsection (1) may, subject to any order of the Supreme Court, be detained in that prison or any other prison in that State for so long as the accused’s detention is necessary for the execution of the order.\n (4) An accused may, while so in custody, be dealt with in the same manner, and is subject to the same laws, as if the warrant issued under subsection (1) had been issued under a law in force in the relevant State relating to holding persons in custody pending the trial of those persons.\n (5) The Commonwealth shall pay to the relevant State the reasonable expenses of maintaining an accused detained in a prison under a warrant under subsection (1).","sortOrder":49},{"sectionNumber":"18B","sectionType":"section","heading":"Accused to be conveyed to Court","content":"#### 18B Accused to be conveyed to Court\n\n (1) Where an accused has been removed to a State under this Act, a judge of the Supreme Court may order that the accused be conveyed to the Court for the purposes of trial in that State, and any related proceedings.\n (2) Where a judge of the Supreme Court makes an order under subsection (1), the person who has the custody of the accused shall release the accused to a constable to enable the accused to be conveyed to the Court in accordance with that order.","sortOrder":50},{"sectionNumber":"18C","sectionType":"section","heading":"Return of accused to Territory","content":"#### 18C Return of accused to Territory\n\n (1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order under paragraph 11AA(8)(b), the Registrar may, by warrant directed to all constables, require them to convey the accused in custody from the State in which the Court made the order to the prison in the Territory specified in the warrant and to deliver the accused into the custody of the officer for the time being in charge of that prison.\n (2) A warrant referred to in subsection (1) may be executed by any constable.","sortOrder":51},{"sectionNumber":"18D","sectionType":"section","heading":"Person deemed to be prisoner under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923","content":"#### 18D Person deemed to be prisoner under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been tried in relation to an indictable offence against a law in force in the Territory by the Supreme Court sitting in a State; and\n (b) the person is convicted of that offence and sentenced to imprisonment;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (c) to be a prisoner within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (d) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and the provisions of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.","sortOrder":52},{"sectionNumber":"18E","sectionType":"section","heading":"Person deemed to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923","content":"#### 18E Person deemed to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923\n\n Where a person who has been removed to a State under this Act:\n (a) is found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offence;\n (b) is found or certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be unfit, on the ground of insanity, to be tried for the offence; or\n (c) is convicted of an offence and afterwards certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be insane;\n the person shall be deemed:\n (d) to be a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923; and\n (e) to have been removed to that State under that Act;\n and sections 9 and 10A of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.","sortOrder":53},{"sectionNumber":"18F","sectionType":"section","heading":"Repatriation of person tried in a State","content":"#### 18F Repatriation of person tried in a State\n\n Where:\n (a) a person has been removed to a State under this Act;\n (b) the trial of the person in the Supreme Court sitting in that State has concluded; and\n (c) the person is acquitted (other than on the ground of insanity) or is not, after the date on which the trial concludes, required to serve a sentence of imprisonment;\n the Commonwealth shall, on application by the person to the Secretary, provide the person with means to enable the person to return to the Territory.","sortOrder":54},{"sectionNumber":"20","sectionType":"section","heading":"Grant of pardon, remission etc.","content":"#### 20 Grant of pardon, remission etc.\n\n (1) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant to a person convicted by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction under a law in force in the Territory a pardon, either free or conditional, or a remission or commutation of sentence, or a respite, for such period as the Governor‑General thinks fit, of the execution of sentence, and may remit fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or incurred under a law in force in the Territory.\n (2) The Governor‑General, acting with the advice of the Minister, may, by warrant signed by the Governor‑General, grant a pardon to an accomplice who gives evidence that leads to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any of the principal offenders.","sortOrder":55},{"sectionNumber":"21","sectionType":"section","heading":"Exemption from Customs duties of goods produced in the Territory","content":"#### 21 Exemption from Customs duties of goods produced in the Territory\n\n Duties of Customs are not chargeable on goods imported into Australia from the Territory if the goods:\n (a) are the produce or manufacture of the Territory;\n (b) have been shipped in the Territory for export to Australia; and\n (c) are not goods which, if manufactured or produced in Australia, would be subject to a Duty of Excise.","sortOrder":56},{"sectionNumber":"21A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Disposal of land","content":"#### 21A Disposal of land\n\n (1) The application of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 in relation to land in the Territory does not prevent or affect the making or operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law of the Territory (including the operation of a provision of an Ordinance or other law made before the commencement of this section) by virtue of which:\n (a) lands in the Territory acquired by or vested in the Commonwealth may be disposed of or otherwise dealt with;\n (b) instruments, receipts and other documents in relation to any such lands may be executed; or\n (c) rights, duties and liabilities in relation to any such lands are or may be acquired, conferred or imposed.\n (2) Any Ordinances or other laws of the Territory referred to in subsection (1) which provide for the acquisition of land shall provide that such land shall not be acquired otherwise than on just terms.","sortOrder":57},{"sectionNumber":"22","sectionType":"section","heading":"Audit","content":"#### 22 Audit\n\n The accounts of the Territory shall be subject to inspection and audit by the Auditor‑General for the Commonwealth.","sortOrder":58},{"sectionNumber":"22A","sectionType":"section","heading":"Ordinances—incorporation of matters by reference","content":"#### 22A Ordinances—incorporation of matters by reference\n\n (1) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003, an Ordinance, or a law made under such an Ordinance, may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, a provision of a Western Australian law (whether or not the law is an applied Western Australian law), as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.\n (2) Subsection (1) applies to a provision of a Western Australian law that is not an Act of the Western Australian Parliament only if the provision is subject to disallowance (however described) in Western Australia.","sortOrder":59},{"sectionNumber":"23","sectionType":"section","heading":"Regulations","content":"#### 23 Regulations\n\n The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and, in particular:\n (a) making provision for and in relation to sittings of the Supreme Court in a State for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice; and\n (b) prescribing penalties, of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding 15 penalty units, for offences against the regulations; and\n (c) making saving or transitional provisions in relation to the abolition of any court established by an Ordinance.","sortOrder":60}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The original 1958 Act was primarily a straightforward instrument to formally accept Christmas Island as an Australian Territory and establish basic governance. Over time its scope expanded significantly: the 1992 reforms introduced the wholesale application of Western Australian laws (replacing a more bespoke colonial-style legal framework), added complex parliamentary oversight mechanisms for those applied laws, and created the intergovernmental arrangements with WA. Part IVA subsequently transferred judicial jurisdiction to WA courts and provided for abolition of the Territory's own Supreme Court — a major structural change well beyond the original intent of simple territorial acceptance."},"complexity_factors":["Multi-layered legal system: four distinct sources of law operate simultaneously in the Territory, requiring understanding of how they interact and which prevails in a conflict","Dynamic incorporation of Western Australian laws: WA laws apply automatically and change whenever WA amends them, creating a constantly shifting legal landscape that requires ongoing monitoring","Intricate parliamentary oversight mechanism: multiple tabling, notice, and disallowance procedures with precise sitting-day timeframes for both Ordinances and applied WA Acts, including special rules for prorogation and dissolution","Complex power-vesting architecture: a tiered system of deemed directions, delegations, and arrangements transfers WA governmental powers to Commonwealth equivalents, with multiple exceptions and carve-outs","Historical layering: the Act has been substantially amended multiple times since 1958 (notably in 1992 and with Part IVA additions), creating cross-referencing complexity and transitional provisions","Dual court jurisdiction: the abolition of the Territory's own Supreme Court and transfer of jurisdiction to WA courts, with detailed savings and transitional provisions for pending proceedings","Cross-jurisdictional criminal trial mechanics: detailed rules for moving accused persons, juries and proceedings between the Territory and mainland States","Interaction with numerous other Commonwealth and WA Acts referenced throughout the legislation"],"plain_english_summary":"## Christmas Island Act 1958: What It Does and Why It Matters\n\n### The Big Picture\nThis law formally brought Christmas Island — a small Australian territory in the Indian Ocean about 2,600km northwest of Perth — under Australian Commonwealth control in 1958, when it was transferred from British/Singaporean administration. It sets up the entire legal framework for how the island is governed today.\n\n### Who Does This Affect?\n- **Christmas Island residents** (about 1,800–2,000 people): This law determines what laws apply to their daily lives — everything from traffic rules to criminal law to property rights.\n- **People detained on Christmas Island**: Particularly relevant given the immigration detention centre there.\n- **Anyone doing business on, or having legal dealings with, the Territory.**\n\n### What the Law Actually Does\n\n**1. Accepted the Island as an Australian Territory**\nAustralia formally took ownership of the island and all its assets and responsibilities from the UK and the Colony of Singapore, with some specific carve-outs (for example, Australia didn't take on Singapore's pre-existing pension obligations or savings bank deposits).\n\n**2. Decided What Laws Apply There**\nRather than creating an entirely separate legal system from scratch, the law took a clever shortcut: it largely imported **Western Australia's laws** to apply on Christmas Island. So if you live on Christmas Island, much of the law governing you is the same law that applies in WA — covering things like property, employment, family law, and more.\n\nThe laws in force on the island come from four sources:\n- Commonwealth Acts (federal laws that apply everywhere in Australia)\n- Special Ordinances (rules made specifically for Christmas Island by the Governor-General)\n- Certain preserved old laws (from before 1992)\n- Western Australian laws (automatically applied)\n\n**3. Parliamentary Oversight of Applied WA Laws**\nWhenever WA laws are newly applied to Christmas Island, the Minister must table a list in Parliament. Either House of Parliament can then vote to *terminate* (cancel) a specific WA law's application to Christmas Island within a set timeframe — giving Parliament a check on what rules Christmas Islanders live under.\n\n**4. Court System**\nOriginally, Christmas Island had its own Supreme Court. This Act has since transferred most of that court's functions to **Western Australian courts** (the Supreme Court of WA, District Court of WA, and Family Court of WA), which now handle legal cases for Christmas Island residents. Criminal trials can even be held on the mainland in a WA court if the interests of justice require it — useful given the island's remoteness and small population.\n\n**5. Powers and Administration**\nWA government officials, police and authorities can exercise their powers on Christmas Island under arrangements between the Commonwealth and WA. The Australian Federal Police handle policing. The Christmas Island Shire handles local government matters.\n\n**6. Other Practical Rules**\n- Goods produced on Christmas Island can be imported into mainland Australia without customs duties.\n- The island's finances are audited by the Commonwealth Auditor-General.\n- The Governor-General can pardon convicted criminals on the island.\n- Prisoners can be transferred to mainland facilities to serve their sentences.\n\n### Bottom Line for Residents\nIf you live on Christmas Island, you largely live under Western Australian law, enforced by the Australian Federal Police, with your legal disputes now handled by WA courts. The federal government retains overall control through the power to make Ordinances (special rules) and override WA laws where needed."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Parts I, II, III (entire document structure)","severity":"high","reasoning":"This is a serious structural defect in the source document as reproduced. While this may be a formatting/compilation artifact rather than a legislative drafting error per se, it creates genuine legal ambiguity about which version of any given provision is operative, whether later reproductions are intended as amendments, and which text courts should rely upon. A statute that literally repeats itself multiple times creates interpretive impossibility.","confidence":0.95,"description":"The Act reproduces its own preliminary provisions (sections 1, 2, 4, 4A), Part II (sections 5, 6), and Part III (sections 7, 8, 8A through 8GA) in their entirety at least twice within the same document, with a third repetition beginning after 'Division 1 — Laws of the Territory'. The document contains three separate preamble blocks beginning with 'AND WHEREAS by the Constitution...' and three full reproductions of sections 1, 2, 4, and 4A."},{"type":"circular_definition","section":"Section 4(1) — definition of 'State'","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The definition is deliberately extended but creates a counterintuitive and potentially misleading legal fiction. The word 'State' in ordinary constitutional and legal usage has a specific meaning (one of the six federated States). Expanding it to include other Territories while excluding the Territory the Act is about is logically inverted. The definition of 'the Territory' then becomes the only entity excluded from both 'State' and 'Territory' for practical interpretive purposes within the Act.","confidence":0.82,"description":"The definition states 'State includes a Territory other than the Territory.' This means that for the purposes of this Act, Christmas Island (the Territory) is not a 'State', but every other Territory (e.g., the Northern Territory, the ACT) is treated as a 'State'. This creates the absurdity that the Northern Territory — itself a territory like Christmas Island — is legally a 'State' for the purposes of this Act, while the very Territory this Act governs is not."},{"type":"circular_definition","section":"Section 4(1) — definition of 'laws of the Territory' cross-referencing section 7","severity":"low","reasoning":"The definitional loop is partially broken by section 7's enumeration of specific categories, but the cross-referential structure still results in a circular framework: the defined term points to a section that itself relies on the underlying concept the definition was meant to clarify. This is a drafting inelegance rather than a complete logical failure.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The definition of 'laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory' means 'the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7.' Section 7 then defines the laws of the Territory by listing four categories of law (Acts, Ordinances, Schedule laws, applied WA laws). The definition is essentially circular: the 'laws of the Territory' means whatever section 7 says the laws of the Territory are, and section 7 uses the concept of laws being 'in force in the Territory' without an independent anchor."},{"type":"other","section":"Section 8D(1)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"This is an internal cross-reference error. Section 8D(1) attributes the tabling obligation to section 8A, but section 8A deals with the application of Western Australian laws to the Territory and says nothing about tabling lists. Section 8B is the provision that imposes the tabling obligation. This creates genuine ambiguity about whether section 8D applies only to the very first list (as the text suggests) and which list triggers the extension mechanism.","confidence":0.88,"description":"Section 8D(1) states it provides for an extension of time for giving a termination notice in relation to WA Acts 'specified in the first WA Acts list that is required by section 8A to be tabled in that House.' However, section 8A does not require any list to be tabled — that obligation is imposed by section 8B. The cross-reference to 'section 8A' is erroneous."},{"type":"other","section":"Section 8G(9)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The policy rationale (avoiding technical invalidity due to jurisdictional qualification mismatches) is understandable, but the logical effect is that the applied Western Australian law applies in a materially weaker form in Christmas Island than it does in Western Australia itself. The 'application' of Western Australian law is therefore fictitious insofar as its qualification safeguards are stripped out. This is an internal policy absurdity rather than a strict logical contradiction.","confidence":0.78,"description":"Section 8G(9) provides that the validity of exercising a power under an applied Western Australian law is 'unaffected by the failure of the person or authority to hold a qualification required of a person or authority exercising that power under a Western Australian law.' This means a person can lawfully exercise powers in Christmas Island that they could not lawfully exercise in Western Australia due to lack of qualification, creating a lower standard of protection for Christmas Island residents than for Western Australians under the same notionally applied laws."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Section 14G read with sections 11 and 14H(5)","severity":"low","reasoning":"The mechanism is a legislative deeming device and is not uncommon, but the result is that section 11 mandating a Supreme Court remains in the Act text while being deemed non-existent after abolition. A court must then interpret the Act as if a provision it can see does not exist. This is a structural oddity rather than a true impossibility, but it creates interpretive difficulty.","confidence":0.7,"description":"Section 14G abolishes the Supreme Court of the Territory 'on a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day on which no person holds office as a Judge of that Court.' Section 14H(5) then provides that on and after the proclaimed day, 'this Act has effect as if sections 11, 11AAA and 11A were repealed.' Section 11(1) establishes 'There shall be a Supreme Court of the Territory.' The Act thus simultaneously purports to establish a court in perpetuity (section 11) and to later abolish that same court, with section 11 thereafter deemed repealed. The ongoing legislative text still contains section 11, creating a zombie provision."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Section 14G — condition for Proclamation","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The Proclamation must nominate a specific future date, but judicial appointments and tenure are governed by separate processes outside this Act's control. If a new Judge were appointed before the proclaimed day, or if a Judge refused to vacate, the Proclamation would fix a day that does not satisfy the statutory condition, potentially rendering the abolition invalid or uncertain. There is no mechanism to cure this.","confidence":0.72,"description":"Section 14G requires the abolition Proclamation to fix 'a day on which no person holds office as a Judge of that Court.' This creates a practical bootstrapping problem: the Governor-General can only fix the abolition day prospectively, but the condition (no Judge holds office) must be satisfied on that specific future day. There is no mechanism to ensure the condition will be met on the day chosen, and no fallback if a Judge is appointed or holds over on the chosen day."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Section 8B(3) read with section 8A(3)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The list must include Acts 'in force in the Territory under section 8A' per s8B(2), but must also include Acts whose operation has been suspended per s8B(3). A suspended Act is not in force in the ordinary sense. The two requirements are in tension: s8B(2) limits the list to Acts in force, while s8B(3) extends the obligation to Acts not in force (because suspended). This is a genuine internal inconsistency.","confidence":0.8,"description":"Section 8B(3) requires that the tabling list 'must include WA Acts whose operation has been suspended in accordance with subsection 8A(3).' Subsection 8A(3) allows an Ordinance to suspend the operation of a WA law. However, a suspended WA Act is, by definition, not currently 'in force in the Territory under section 8A' — its operation has been suspended. Section 8B(2) requires the list to specify WA Acts 'wholly or partly in force in the Territory under section 8A.' A suspended Act is arguably not 'in force', yet section 8B(3) requires it to be listed as if it were."},{"type":"other","section":"Section 10A(2)(c)","severity":"low","reasoning":"The drafting attempts to address the non-tabling scenario but inadvertently creates an asymmetry: proper compliance with tabling obligations creates a shorter restriction window (ending 7 days after tabling), while non-compliance creates a longer window (ending 7 days after the last possible tabling day). This perversely incentivises delay in tabling.","confidence":0.68,"description":"Section 10A(2)(c) defines the relevant period for the re-making prohibition by reference to 'the last day on which subsection 10(1) could have been complied with' — i.e., where the original Ordinance was never tabled. This creates the anomaly that an Ordinance that was never tabled (and therefore ceased to have effect under s10(1)) generates a longer protection period against re-making than one that was properly tabled. The Governor-General is thus penalised less for complying with tabling obligations than for ignoring them."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 8E(1)","section_b":"Section 8A(4)","confidence":0.7,"description":"Section 8E(1) provides that Commonwealth Acts extend to the Territory 'of their own force' unless expressly excluded. Section 8A(4) provides that applied Western Australian laws have 'no effect so far as inconsistent with... an Act.' These provisions are consistent in priority (Acts prevail), but section 8E(2) then states an Ordinance has no effect insofar as it 'purports to affect the application of an Act.' However, section 8A(2) expressly permits Ordinances to 'incorporate, amend or repeal' applied WA laws. If an applied WA law operates concurrently with an Act (per s8A(5)), an Ordinance amending the WA law could indirectly affect the Act's application, apparently contradicting s8E(2)."},{"severity":"low","section_a":"Section 11(1)","section_b":"Section 14G and Section 14H(5)","confidence":0.75,"description":"Section 11(1) mandates in imperative terms that 'There shall be a Supreme Court of the Territory.' Section 14G abolishes that Court by Proclamation, and section 14H(5) deems section 11 to be repealed after abolition. The mandatory establishment provision directly contradicts the abolition mechanism: a court that 'shall' exist is subsequently abolished. While the deeming mechanism is legally operative, the unrepealed text of section 11 and the abolition provisions sit in direct textual contradiction within the same Act."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 4(1) — definition of 'the Supreme Court'","section_b":"Section 14C and Part IVA generally","confidence":0.78,"description":"The definition of 'the Supreme Court' in section 4(1) means 'the Supreme Court of the Territory.' Part IVA transfers jurisdiction from the Supreme Court of the Territory to Western Australian courts. Section 14E then deems references to the Supreme Court of the Territory to include the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the District Court of Western Australia for certain purposes. The section 4(1) definition therefore conflicts with the extended meaning given by section 14E: the same term means different things depending on which part of the Act is being applied, without any clear hierarchy or override mechanism in section 4."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Section 8C(5)","section_b":"Section 8A(1) and Section 7(1)(d)","confidence":0.82,"description":"Section 8C(5) provides that termination of a WA Act 'has the same effect as the repeal of that WA Act, as a law of the Territory, by an Ordinance.' However, section 8A(1) makes Western Australian laws automatically in force in the Territory (subject to the section), and section 7(1)(d) lists 'applied Western Australian laws' as a category of laws in force. If a WA Act is 'terminated' and has the effect of repeal by Ordinance, but the underlying WA law continues to exist in Western Australia and section 8A(1) applies WA laws automatically, there is a question whether the automatic application mechanism in section 8A(1) would immediately re-apply the terminated Act, making the termination mechanism self-defeating. Section 8C(5) does not address this re-application risk."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 10(1) — Ordinances must be tabled within 15 sitting days or cease to have effect","section_b":"Section 10D(1A)(b) — regulations made under applied WA laws by persons empowered under section 8G must be tabled","confidence":0.73,"description":"Section 10D(1A)(b) includes within the tabling requirement 'a regulation made by a person or an authority empowered, under section 8G, to make the regulation under an applied Western Australian law.' However, section 10D(1A)(a) expressly excludes 'a regulation of Western Australia as in force in the Territory under section 8A.' A regulation made by a WA authority acting under a deemed vesting of power (section 8G(5A)) could arguably fall into both categories simultaneously — it is made under an applied WA law (excluded by (a)) but by a person empowered under section 8G (included by (b)). The boundary between these two categories is not clearly drawn."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 14B(1) — Western Australian courts have jurisdiction 'as if the Territory were part of Western Australia'","section_b":"Section 8A(4) — applied WA laws have no effect to the extent inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act or Ordinance","confidence":0.65,"description":"Section 14B(1) grants WA courts jurisdiction as if Christmas Island were part of Western Australia. However, Christmas Island is constitutionally a Territory, not part of a State. WA courts derive their jurisdiction from WA State law. Granting them jurisdiction over a Territory 'as if' it were part of the State creates a constitutional fiction that may be inconsistent with Chapter III of the Constitution regarding the source and nature of State court jurisdiction. Section 8A(4) would then potentially nullify aspects of the jurisdiction grant if a court found inconsistency with the Constitution, creating a self-undermining conferral."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Section 12(2) — trial on indictment shall be by judge and jury","section_b":"Section 14H(5) — after abolition of Supreme Court, subsection 12(1) is deemed omitted","confidence":0.8,"description":"Section 12(2) mandates jury trial for indictable offences under laws in force in the Territory. Section 14H(5) deems subsection 12(1) omitted after the Supreme Court's abolition, but does not deem section 12(2) omitted. Section 12(2)'s jury trial requirement therefore continues to apply even after the Supreme Court is abolished and jurisdiction transfers to WA courts, yet the mechanism for empanelling juries in the Territory (tied to the Supreme Court's processes) may no longer be operative. The mandatory jury trial requirement persists without the procedural infrastructure to give it effect."}]},"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"source":"grok-batch-everything"},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The original 1958 Act was narrowly focused on acceptance of the island from the United Kingdom under imperial arrangements (ss 2, 5–6) and basic governance via Ordinances. Amendments, particularly from 1992 onward, have substantially expanded its scope to create a hybrid legal system that directly applies and adapts the entire body of Western Australian statute and common law (s 8A), integrates the island's judiciary into WA courts, abolishes the Territory Supreme Court (s 14G), and adds extensive parliamentary tabling, termination, and power-redirection machinery (ss 8B–8H, Part IVA). This has transformed it from a standalone territorial statute into a detailed integration framework far beyond the initial transfer of sovereignty."},"complexity_factors":["Over 40 defined terms in s 4(1), including highly specific ones like 'court officer of Western Australia', 'applied Western Australian law', and detailed lists of WA courts and offices","Nested and conditional provisions for application, suspension, amendment, and termination of WA laws (ss 8A–8I, 8GA, with cross-references to Part IVA)","Elaborate parliamentary disallowance and revival mechanisms for both Ordinances (ss 10–10D) and WA Acts (ss 8C–8D), including special rules for prorogation, dissolution, and extensions","Multi-layered judicial transfer and abolition rules in Part IVA (ss 14B–14J), with transitional savings, pending proceeding transfers, and deemed references across all Commonwealth Acts","Deemed vesting, delegation, and 'corresponding power' tables in s 8G(5B), plus interaction rules with the Criminal Code (s 4A) and savings clauses (s 8I)","Repeated cross-references between parts (e.g. s 8G(2A) excluding Ordinance-made powers, s 14E adapting criminal sitting rules to WA courts)"],"plain_english_summary":"**The Christmas Island Act 1958 makes Christmas Island an official Australian territory and sets up a practical system for running it.**\n\nChristmas Island is a small, remote island in the Indian Ocean (about 2,600 km northwest of Perth). The Act declares it part of Australia (s 5) and transfers old UK and Singapore-era property, rights, and obligations to the Commonwealth (s 6), with some exceptions like certain loans and pensions.\n\nInstead of creating a completely new set of laws for such a tiny place (population roughly 1,800), the Act applies most **Western Australian laws** automatically as if the island were part of WA (s 8A). Commonwealth laws also apply. Local rules can be made through **Ordinances** issued by the Governor-General (s 9), but Parliament can veto them (ss 10–10D). There are special rules for listing which WA laws apply, letting either House of Parliament terminate unwanted ones, and adjusting who holds powers under those laws (ss 8B–8H).\n\nThe courts have been simplified: the local Supreme Court was eventually abolished, and WA courts (Supreme, District, and Family Courts of WA) now handle almost all cases from the island as if it were part of WA (Part IVA). Criminal trials can happen in WA with juries drawn from there (ss 11AA–12B). The Act also covers practical issues like moving prisoners or patients to the mainland, pardons, customs exemptions for local goods, land sales on fair terms, and auditing territory accounts.\n\nIt matters because it lets a distant territory borrow a ready-made legal system from its nearest state while keeping Commonwealth oversight. This avoids the cost of duplicate laws and courts for a very small population."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The Act originally dealt with the acceptance of Christmas Island and basic governance. Over time, it expanded significantly: the application of Western Australian laws (added in 1992), the intricate parliamentary oversight mechanisms for those laws (sections 8B-8D), the transfer of court jurisdiction to Western Australia (Part IVA), and detailed provisions for trials in other States. These additions turned a relatively simple territorial acceptance Act into a complex intergovernmental legal framework."},"complexity_factors":["Over 40 defined terms in section 4, many with nested definitions","Extensive cross-referencing, e.g., definitions refer to sections 8A, 8GA, etc.","Complex scheme for applying Western Australian laws (sections 8A-8H) with multiple conditions, exceptions, and parliamentary termination procedures","Detailed provisions for the Supreme Court sitting in a State (section 11AA) with many subsections","Part IVA on conferring jurisdiction on Western Australian courts includes transitional and savings provisions (sections 14A-14J)","Multiple provisions on disallowance and re-making of Ordinances (sections 10, 10A-10C) with conditional logic","Tables embedded in legislation (e.g., in section 8G(5B))","Nested exceptions, e.g., in section 6(3) for transfer of liabilities"],"plain_english_summary":"The Christmas Island Act 1958 is the foundational law that brought Christmas Island under Australian control and sets out how it is governed. It transferred ownership of the island's property and debts from the United Kingdom and Singapore to the Australian Commonwealth. The Act specifies that most laws of Western Australia apply automatically to Christmas Island (called 'applied Western Australian laws'), unless the Australian Parliament decides to override them. The Governor-General can make local laws (called 'Ordinances') for the Territory, but these must be tabled in Parliament and can be disallowed. The Act also sets up a court system, initially with a Supreme Court of Christmas Island, but later transferred most court jurisdiction to Western Australian courts and abolished the local Supreme Court. Other provisions cover customs exemptions for goods produced on the island, land disposal, appointment of officers, and the handling of prisoners and mental patients."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/christmas-island-act-1958","history":"/api/acts/christmas-island-act-1958/history","analysis":"/api/acts/christmas-island-act-1958/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/christmas-island-act-1958/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/christmas-island-act-1958/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/christmas-island-act-1958/documents"}}