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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AREAS) ACT 1948 - SECT 8

8 Unions to be deemed an exercise of power conferred on Governor by section sixteen of Principal Act

(1)

(a) Each union of constituent areas which is to be effected on the appointed day as provided in Division 2 of this Part of this Act, and the constitution of each united area as a city or a municipality (as the case may be) as provided in that Division, shall in each case be deemed to be an exercise of the power conferred on the Governor by paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Principal Act, and the provisions of that Act (except section twenty) shall, to the extent to which provision is not otherwise made in this Act, apply as if on the day upon which the assent of His Majesty to this Act is signified a proclamation had been issued by the Governor under paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Principal Act providing that such unions should be effected on the appointed day, and for the constitution of each united area on that day as a city or a municipality as the case may be.

(b) In the application of any provision of the Principal Act pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection, a reference in such provision to an area or to a municipality shall be construed as including a reference to the City of Sydney as bounded under the law in force at the date upon which the assent of His Majesty to this Act is signified, and a reference in such provision to a council shall be construed as including a reference to the Municipal Council of Sydney as constituted under the law in force at that date.

(2) For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this section, section twenty-one of the principal Act shall be deemed to be amended:

(a) by inserting in paragraph (q1) of subsection one after the word "ordinances" where firstly occurring, the words "proclamations and notifications under this Act, and regulations, by-laws, proclamations and notifications under the Sydney Corporation Act 1932 , as amended by subsequent Acts",

(b) by inserting in the same paragraph after the word "ordinances" where secondly occurring, the words "regulations, by-laws, proclamations and notifications".

(3) For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this section, any proclamation which the Governor is authorised to make under section twenty-one of the Principal Act may be made at any time either before or after the appointed day.