12Ordinances

#### 12 Ordinances (1) Subject to subsection, (1B) the Governor‑General may make Ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the Territory with respect to: (a) the jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the Supreme Court of the Territory; (b) the classification of materials for the purposes of censorship; (c) evidence; (d) National Land as defined by the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988; (e) companies; (f) close corporations; (g) foreign companies; (h) the acquisition of shares in bodies corporate; (j) the regulation of the securities industry and the futures industry; and (k) the subject matter of laws specified in Schedule 3 to the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988. (1A) An Ordinance made under paragraph (1)(d) has no effect to the extent that it is inconsistent with the National Capital Plan in effect under the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988, but an Ordinance shall be taken to be consistent with the Plan to the extent that it is capable of operating concurrently with the Plan. (1B) Subject to subsection (1C), paragraphs (1)(a), (c) and (k) cease to have effect: (a) on or after 1 July 1992; or (b) after regulations made for the purposes of subsection 34(6) of the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988 have amended Schedule 3 to that Act by omitting all the laws in that Schedule, other than those referred to in Schedule 5 to that Act; whichever occurs sooner. (1C) Paragraph (1)(k) does not cease to have effect on and after 1 July 1992 in regard to any matter referred to in Schedule 5 to the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988. (2) Every such Ordinance shall: (a) be notified in the Gazette; (b) subject to subsection (2AA), take effect: (i) from the date of notification; (ii) where another date (whether before or after the date of notification) is specified in the Ordinance, from the date specified; or (iii) where the Ordinance so provides, from such date as is fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette; and (c) be laid before each House of the Parliament within fifteen sitting days of that House after the day on which the Ordinance is made. (2AA) An Ordinance that: (a) makes provision in relation to a matter arising from, connected with or consequential upon the establishment of the Territory as a body politic under the Crown; and (b) is made on or before Self‑Government Day within the meaning of the A.C.T. Self‑Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988; may be expressed to take effect from the date of commencement of a provision of the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988. (2A) A notice in the Gazette of any such Ordinance having been made, and of the place or places where copies of the Ordinance can be purchased, shall be sufficient compliance with the requirement of paragraph (a) of the last preceding subsection. (2B) Where a notice of an Ordinance having been made is published in accordance with subsection (2A), copies of the Ordinance shall, at the time of publication of the notice or as soon as practicable thereafter, be made available for purchase at the place, or at each of the places, specified in the notice. (2C) Where, on the date of publication of a notice referred to in subsection (2B), there are no copies of the Ordinance to which the notice relates available for purchase at the place, or at one or more of the places, specified in the notice, the Minister shall cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting days of that House after that date, a statement that copies of the Ordinance were not so available and the reason why they were not so available. (2D) Failure to comply with a requirement of subsection (2B) or (2C) shall not be taken to constitute a failure to comply with paragraph (2)(a) or subsection (2A). (3) If an Ordinance is not laid before each House of the Parliament in accordance with paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of this section, it ceases to have effect. (4) If either House of the Parliament, in pursuance of a motion of which notice has been given within fifteen 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. (5) If, at the expiration of fifteen 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 fifteen sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House: (a) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or (b) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; the Ordinance or part, as the case may be, specified in the motion shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed. (5A) If, before the expiration of fifteen 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: (a) the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and (b) at the time of the dissolution, expiry or prorogation, as the case may be: (i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or (ii) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; the Ordinance shall, for the purposes of the last two preceding subsections, 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. (6) 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 (3), the disallowance of the Ordinance or the operation of subsection (3) in relation to the Ordinance, as the case may be, has the same effect as a repeal of the Ordinance. (6A) Where: (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 (3); and (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; the disallowance of the relevant Ordinance or the operation of subsection (3) 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 (3), as the case may be, as if the relevant Ordinance had not been made. (6B) A reference in subsection (6) or (6A) to an Ordinance shall be read as including a reference to a part of an Ordinance, and a reference in subsection (6A) to a law has a corresponding meaning.