{"id":"F2017L01133","name":"Cocos (Keeling) Islands Legislation Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Ordinance 2017","slug":"cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":439318,"registerId":"F2017L01133-fast-fetch-1775955389849","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Cocos (Keeling) Islands Legislation Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Ordinance 2017","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nCocos (Keeling) Islands Legislation Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Ordinance 2017\n\n \n\nOrdinance No. 2, 2017\n\nI, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.\n\nDated 24 August 2017\n\nPeter Cosgrove\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nFiona Nash\n\nMinister for Local Government and Territories\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Schedules\n\nSchedule 1—Amendments\n\nApplied Laws (General) Ordinance 1992\n\nInterpretation Act 1984 (W.A.)(C.K.I.)(Amendment) Ordinance 1992\n\nSchedule 2—Repeals\n\nPart 1—Repeals\n\nCo‑operative Societies Ordinance (of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory)\n\nPart 2—Transitional provisions\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This Ordinance is the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Legislation Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Ordinance 2017.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this Ordinance specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this Ordinance The day after this Ordinance is registered. 6 September 2017\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this Ordinance as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Ordinance.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Ordinance. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Ordinance.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This Ordinance is made under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.\n\n4  Schedules\n\n  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Ordinance has effect according to its terms.\n\nSchedule 1—Amendments\n\n \n\nApplied Laws (General) Ordinance 1992\n\n1  Section 1\n\nOmit “Applied Laws (General)”, substitute “Cocos (Keeling) Islands Applied Laws”.\n\nInterpretation Act 1984 (W.A.)(C.K.I.)(Amendment) Ordinance 1992\n\n2  Subsection 5(5)\n\nInsert:\n\nnotifiable instrument has the same meaning as in the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth.\n\n3  Subsection 7(1) (section 74A)\n\nRepeal the section, substitute:\n\n74A  Requirements for publication in Gazette or newspaper\n\n (1) If an applied law requires or permits a person to publish an instrument in the Gazette or the Government Gazette or in a newspaper circulating in Western Australia, then the requirement must be met, or the permission may only be exercised, by registration of the instrument as a notifiable instrument.\n\n (2) However, subsection (1) does not apply in relation to an instrument published by or on behalf of Western Australia.\n\nSchedule 2—Repeals\n\nPart 1—Repeals\n\nCo‑operative Societies Ordinance (of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory)\n\n1  The whole of the Ordinance\n\nRepeal the Ordinance.\n\nPart 2—Transitional provisions\n\n2  Definitions\n\nIn this Part:\n\nold law means the Co‑operative Societies Ordinance (of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory) immediately before the repeal day.\n\nrepeal day means the day on which this Schedule commences.\n\n3  Registered societies taken to be registered under WA law\n\n(1) A co‑operative society that was, immediately before the repeal day, a registered society under the old law is taken to be registered as a co‑operative under the Co‑operatives Act 2009 (WA) (CKI) for the period:\n\n (a) beginning on the repeal day; and\n\n (b) ending on the day 6 months after the repeal day.\n\n(2) For the purposes of section 21 of the Co‑operatives Act 2009 (WA) (CKI), the old law is taken to be the Act under which the co‑operative society is registered during the period mentioned in subitem (1).\n\n4  Repeal of this Part\n\nThis Part is repealed 6 months after the day on which this Ordinance commences.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The Ordinance changes the scope of how applied laws and publication requirements operate on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: it renames the applied‑laws instrument, shifts publication to Commonwealth notifiable‑instrument registration (with a WA exception), and removes the prior Co‑operative Societies Ordinance while transitioning existing societies onto the WA Co‑operatives Act for six months. These are substantive scope changes to which instruments apply and how they are published."},"complexity_factors":["Cross‑jurisdictional amendments: touches Commonwealth, WA and Cocos (Keeling) Islands legal instruments (requires reading multiple Acts to see full effect).","Change to publication mechanism: replaces Gazette/newspaper publication with registration as a notifiable instrument (aligns to the Legislation Act 2003), creating new administrative steps for publishers.","Repeal of a historic foreign‑origin ordinance (Singapore‑origin Co‑operative Societies Ordinance) with a transitional regime creates short‑term legal overlap.","Time‑limited transitional provision (6 months) imposes a hard deadline for co‑operative societies to adapt or re‑register.","An explicit exception for instruments published by/for Western Australia adds a carve‑out that implementers must identify and apply correctly.","Overall drafting is brief and technical; practical complexity is mostly administrative rather than doctrinal."],"plain_english_summary":"This Ordinance updates how laws operate on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It renames the territory’s applied‑laws instrument, requires most local instruments to be registered as Commonwealth “notifiable instruments” rather than published in a Gazette or newspaper (with an exception for Western Australia), and repeals the old Co‑operative Societies Ordinance while temporarily treating existing co‑operatives as registered under the WA Co‑operatives Act for six months. It mainly affects local administrators, anyone who must publish legal instruments, and island co‑operative societies."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose: technical amendments to applied laws in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The three measures (renaming, updating publication requirements, and transitioning co-operatives from Singapore to WA law) are all closely related administrative updates consistent with the ordinance's stated purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Short, focused amending ordinance with only 4 operative sections","Two straightforward amendments (renaming and insertion of single definition)","One repeal with simple 6-month transitional provision","Minimal cross-referencing (only references to Co-operatives Act 2009 (WA) (CKI) and Legislation Act 2003)","No nested exceptions or complex conditional logic","Clear, linear structure with only 2 schedules"],"plain_english_summary":"This law updates how laws operate in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands by renaming a key ordinance for clarity, modernising publication rules so certain official notices are registered as Commonwealth-style \"notifiable instruments\" instead of published only in WA gazettes/newspapers, and replacing the old Singapore co‑operative law with Western Australian co‑operative law (with a six‑month transition for existing societies). It affects island residents, co‑operatives and administrators and continues replacing outdated colonial-era rules with modern WA practice."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017","history":"/api/acts/cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017/history","analysis":"/api/acts/cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/cocos-keeling-islands-legislation-amendment-2017-measures-no-1-ordinance-2017/documents"}}