Western Australian Current Acts

ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES ACT 1979 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This reprint is a compilation as at 14 September 2012 of the Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Aboriginal Communities Act 1979	8 of 1979	17 May 1979	15 Feb 1980 (see s. 2 and Gazette 15 Feb 1980 p. 456)
Sentencing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1995 Pt. 2 and s. 147	78 of 1995	16 Jan 1996	4 Nov 1996 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Oct 1996 p. 5632)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 15	57 of 1997	15 Dec 1997	15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))
Reprint 1: The Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 as at 7 Mar 2003 (includes amendments listed above)
Courts Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 s. 141	59 of 2004	23 Nov 2004	1 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7128)
Criminal Procedure and Appeals (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 2004 s. 80	84 of 2004	16 Dec 2004	2 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7129 (correction in Gazette 7 Jan 2005 p. 53))
Reprint 2: The Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 as at 14 Sep 2012 (includes amendments listed above)

² Repealed by the Interpretation Act 1984.

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)
Aboriginal community 3
council 3
section 3
statutory provision 13(3)