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Short titles.
Amendment of
~pal_Act.
Constitution or Ministers and statutory ofticen as bodies corporate.
ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO
ELIZABETHAE 11 REGINAE
A.D. 1979
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No. 56 of 1979
An Act to amend the Administration of Acts Act, 1910-1978; and to repeal the Ministers' Titles Act, 1944.
[Assented to 7th June, 1979]
BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows:
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Administration of Acts Act Amend- ment Act, 1979".
(2) The Administration of Acts Act, 1910-1978, is hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".
(3) The principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the
"Administration of Acts Act, 1910-1979".
2. This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the present contents (which are hereby designated subsection (1) thereof) the following subsection : -
(2) The Governor may, by proclamation-
(a) constitute a particular Minister as a body corporate;
(b) constitute the Minister administering a specified Act, or carrying out specified statutory functions, and his successors as a body corporate;
(c) constitute the person holding, or acting in, a specified statutory office, and his successors, as a body corporate;
(d) dissolve a body corporate constituted under this section, and declare that its assets and liabilities shall become assets and liabilities of a Minister or other officer specified in the proclamation,
and any such proclamation shall have effect in accordance with its terms.
1979 Administration of Acts Act Amendment Act, 1979 No. 56 (3) Where a body corporate is established under subsection (2) of this section, the name of the body corporate shall, unless the proclama- tion provides otherwise, be the title or official designation of the Minister or officer who from time to time constitutes the body corporate.
4. The Ministers' Titles Act, 1944, is repealed.
In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.
K. D. SEAMAN, Governor
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Repeal of the Mlnisten·
Titles Act. 1944.
