Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 - SECT 48G

  (1)   The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after the making of a Proclamation referred to in paragraph   40(b) or subsection   48C(1), cause a copy of the Proclamation to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

  (2)   Either House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting days of that House after a copy of a Proclamation has been laid before that House under subsection   (1), may, in pursuance of a motion upon notice, pass a resolution disapproving of the declaration in the Proclamation.

  (3)   Where:

  (a)   a notice referred to in subsection   (2) is given with respect to a Proclamation; and

  (b)   at the expiration of the period during which a resolution disapproving of the declaration in the Proclamation could have been passed:

  (i)   the notice has not been withdrawn and the relevant motion has not been called on; or

  (ii)   the relevant motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;

the declaration in the Proclamation shall be deemed to have been disapproved of.

  (4)   If:

  (a)   neither House of the Parliament passes a resolution in accordance with subsection   (2) disapproving of the declaration in a Proclamation; and

  (b)   the declaration in the Proclamation has not been deemed to have been disapproved of under subsection   (3);

the Proclamation takes effect on the day immediately following the last day upon which a resolution disapproving of the declaration in the Proclamation could have been passed.

  (5)   If, before the expiration of 15 sitting days of a House of the Parliament after a copy of a Proclamation referred to in subsection   (1) has been laid before that House:

  (a)   the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the Parliament is prorogued; and

  (b)   a resolution for the disapproval of the declaration in the Proclamation has not been passed by the first - mentioned House;

the copy of the Proclamation shall, for the purposes of this section, 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.