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MUTUAL RECOGNITION (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) BILL 2010

                  Western Australia


Mutual Recognition (Western Australia)
            Bill 2010

                     CONTENTS


1.   Short title                                      2
2.   Commencement                                     2
3.   Terms used                                       2
4.   Adoption of Commonwealth Act                     2
5.   Regulations for temporary exemption for goods    3
6.   Termination of adoption                          3
     Defined Terms




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                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY



      Mutual Recognition (Western Australia)
                  Bill 2010


                               A Bill for


An Act to continue the adoption of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992
of the Parliament of the Commonwealth (and any amendments made
to it before the enactment of this Act) which provides for the
recognition within each State and Territory of the Commonwealth of
regulatory standards adopted elsewhere in Australia regarding
goods and occupations, and for related purposes.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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 1   1.         Short title
 2              This is the Mutual Recognition (Western Australia) Act 2010.

 3   2.         Commencement
 4              This Act comes into operation as follows --
 5               (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
 6                     receives the Royal Assent;
 7               (b) the rest of the Act -- on 1 March 2011.

 8   3.         Terms used
 9              In this Act --
10              adopt has the same meaning as in the Constitution of the
11              Commonwealth section 51(xxxvii);
12              Commonwealth Act means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992
13              (Commonwealth).

14   4.         Adoption of Commonwealth Act
15        (1)   The State of Western Australia adopts the Commonwealth Act
16              as originally enacted and any amendments made to it before this
17              Act receives the Royal Assent.
18        (2)   The adoption of the Commonwealth Act under this Act does not
19              operate so as to give effect to any adopted provision before that
20              provision commences as a law of the Commonwealth.
21        (3)   To avoid doubt, it is the intention of the Parliament of the State
22              that a Schedule to the Commonwealth Act as adopted under this
23              Act may be amended from time to time by regulations made
24              under the Commonwealth Act.
25        (4)   The Minister is to cause a copy of any regulations referred to in
26              subsection (3) to be laid before each House of Parliament within
27              14 sitting days of that House after the registration of the
28              regulations in the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments
29              maintained under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003
30              (Commonwealth).

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 1   5.         Regulations for temporary exemption for goods
 2              Without limiting any other power to make regulations under any
 3              other Act, the Governor may make regulations for the purposes
 4              mentioned in the Commonwealth Act section 15 as adopted
 5              under this Act.

 6   6.         Termination of adoption
 7        (1)   The adoption of the Commonwealth Act under this Act ends
 8              on --
 9                (a) 28 February 2021; or
10               (b) if an earlier date is fixed under subsection (2), that
11                     earlier day.
12        (2)   The Governor may, by proclamation, fix a day that is earlier
13              than 28 February 2021 as the day on which the adoption of the
14              Commonwealth Act under this Act ends.
15        (3)   This Act expires when the adoption of the Commonwealth Act
16              ends under subsection (1).

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Defined Terms



                                             Defined Terms
            [This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined.
                                   The list is not part of the law.]
      Defined Term                                                                                             Provision(s)
      adopt .....................................................................................................................3
      Commonwealth Act ..............................................................................................3




 


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