Sources of the Law Act 1985
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NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA SOURCES OF THE LAW ACT 1985 As in force at 1 April 1985 Table of provisions 1 Short title ......................................................................................... 1 2 Declaration of law in force on annexation to South Australia ........... 1 3 Date of application of imperial law ................................................... 1 Schedule ENDNOTES
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
As in force at 1 April 1985
SOURCES OF THE 1985 An Act to remove doubt as to the law in force in the Territory by declaring the law to be taken to have been in force in 1863 in the geographical area that now constitutes the Territory 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Sources of the Law Act 1985. 2 Declaration of law in force on annexation to South Australia (1) Where a question arises as to whether a law in force before 22 September 1863 is still, or was at a particular date, a part of the law of the whole or any part of the geographical area that now constitutes the Territory, the law in force in the Colony of South Australia immediately before 22 September 1863 (including the common law and statutes of England applicable to that Colony) shall, subject to sub-section (2), be taken for all purposes to be, to the exclusion of any other law that at any time before that date was in force in the whole or any part of that geographical area, the law in force in that area on that date, so far as it was applicable thereto. (2) A statute listed in the Schedule, and any statute repealed by a statute so listed, shall not be taken to be a law in force on or immediately before, or at any time after, 22 September 1863 in the geographical area referred to in subsection (1). 3 Date of application of imperial law In all questions as to the applicability of a law or statute of England to the Territory, the Territory shall be deemed to have been established on 28 December 1836.
Schedule Schedule section 2 Number of Act Title of Act No. 9 of 1853 An Act to regulate the occupation of Crown Lands in South Australia. No. 5 of 1857-8 An Act for regulating the Sale and other disposal of Waste Lands belonging to the Crown in South Australia. No. 18 of 1858 An Act to amend the "Waste Lands Act.". No. 20 of 1858 An Act for an Assessment on Stock, and for other purposes therein mentioned. No. 13 of 1859 An Act to provide for the Definition of Boundaries of Runs and the Survey of Lands for Mineral purposes by means of Licensed Surveyors. No. 7 of 1861 An Act to amend an Act, No. 20 of 22nd Victoria, intituled "An Act for an Assessment on Stock, and for other purposes therein mentioned.". No. 16 of 1862 An Act to provide for an appeal against Assessments of the Waste Lands of the Crown leased for Pastoral Purposes. No. 17 of 1862 An Act to provide for the future appropriation of the proceeds of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of South Australia. No. 22 of 1862 An Act to further amend an Act No. 20 of 22nd Victoria, intituled "An Act for an Assessment on Stock, and for other purposes therein mentioned.". No. 13 of 1863 An Act to provide for the reduction of the Assessment of certain Pastoral Lands. No. 2 of 1864 An Act to enable the Governor to Lease, for mineral purposes, Lands the property of the Government, not being Waste Lands of the Crown. No. 8 of 1864 An Act to authorize certain reductions in the valuation of runs, under the Act intituled An Act for an Assessment on Stock, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and to provide for the compensation for improvements, to be allowed on resumption, to lessees of Pastoral Lands under renewed leases. Sources of the Law Act 1985 2