So many of the acts in schedule (2) to this act as relate to the colony of New South Wales are repealed. For the purpose of establishing the Legislative Assembly of the said Colony of Queensland, it shall be lawful, in the first place, for the Governor of New South Wales, within the time aforesaid, and thereafter for the Governor.
COLONIAL LAWS VALIDITY ACT, 1865,
Any colonial law which is or shall be in any respect contrary to the provisions of any Act of Parliament in force in a colony to which such law may relate, or which is contrary to any order or regulation made under such Act of Parliament, or which has in the colony, the validity and effect of such law shall be read in accordance with this law, order or regulation and shall, to the extent of such obnoxiousness, but otherwise, be absolutely null and inoperative. No colonial law shall be or be deemed to be void or inoperative by reason of or in opposition to the law of England, unless contrary to the provisions of any such Act of Parliament, order or regulation as aforesaid.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ACT 1867-1978
It shall be lawful for any member of the House of Assembly to resign his seat in the House of Assembly, if he address under his hand to the Speaker of said House, and when such resignation is received by the Speaker, such member's seat shall become vacant. If such a member declares that he is voting as and for an absent member of the chamber, he shall be deemed to vote himself on the question indicated by his place in the section.
CONSTITUTION ACT 1867-1988
Appointment to offices under the Government of the colony to be vested in the Governor in Council or alone. Schedule to 18 and 19
Provided always that this decree shall not extend to minor appointments which by Act of the Legislature or by order of the Governor in Council may be made to heads of departments or other officers or persons within the colony. The magistrates continued to enjoy their offices during their good behaviour, notwithstanding any decline of the Crown.
Judges continued in the enjoyment of their offices during their good behaviour notwithstanding any demise of the Crown. The
But they may be removed by the Crown on the address of Parliament. It shall be lawful nevertheless for Her Majesty her heirs or
Their salaries secured during the continuance of their commissions. Such salaries as are settled upon the judges for the time
No money vote or Bill lawful unless recommended by Governor
For the purpose of constituting the Legislature, it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time in Her Majesty's name, by instrument or instruments under the Great Seal of the Colony, to summon and summon a Legislature in and for the said Colony. The Legislative Assembly shall consist of members duly qualified under the Legislative Assemblies Act for the time being, to be elected by the inhabitants of the said Colony possessing any of the qualifications for the time being mentioned in the Election Act. All taxes levy rates and duties and all territorial incidental and other revenues of the Crown (including royalties) from whatever source arise within this colony and beyond.
Such fund permanently charged with expenses of collection
Consolidated revenue to be appropriated by Act of the Legislature
The entire management of Crown lands and all revenues thence arising to be vested in the local Legislature. Schedule to 18 and 19 Vic
The Legislature of the said Colony, and any Committee of such House duly authorized by the House to send for persons and papers, may order any person to attend the House or before such Committee, as the case may be, and also to produce before such house or committee any paper book or other document in the possession or power of such person. Any such order to attend or produce documents before the Legislature shall be served upon the person required to attend or produce documents upon a summons under the hand of the Speaker, and any such order to attend or produce documents before such committee shall be served the person who must appear or present documents, by summons under the direction of the Secretary of State authorized by the chairman of the committee. A member of the assembly may be ordered by the assembly to attend before the assembly or before any committee of the assembly without summons.
Objection to answer questions or produce documents to be reported to the House. If any person ordered to attend or produce any
And when such warrant orders the person named therein to be imprisoned in any prison, the holder thereof is required to take such person into custody in the said prison and there to commit him according to the term of the warrant. LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal appointing the Governor of the Colony of Queensland to be Governor of all the islands within Sixty miles of the coast of the said colony, and authorizing the annexation of the islands aforesaid to that colony. Appointment of the Governor of Queensland as Governor of the Islands within sixty miles of the coast of the Colony.
ROMILLY
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the most honorable Marquis of Normanby, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of. Colony of Queensland and its dependencies, and governor of the islands within sixty miles of the coast of the said colony, etc., etc., in the presence of. WHEREAS Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen was pleased by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, dated the 30th day of May, 1872, to constitute and appoint the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony for the time being of Queensland, to be Governor of all the Islands which lies and is within sixty miles of the coast of the said colony.
QUEENSLAND COAST ISLANDS ACT OF 1879,
43 VIC. NO.1
E. KENNEDY, Governor
George, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Queensland and its Dependencies. Certain islands in the Torres Strait lying between the mainland of Australia and the Island of New Guinea, i.e. all the islands falling within a line drawn from Sandy Cape northwards to the south-eastern limit of the Great Barrier Reefs; thence following the line of the Great Barrier Reefs to their north-eastern extremity near the latitude of nine and a half degrees south; thence in a northwesterly direction. Given under my hand and the great seal of the colony, at Government House, Brisbane, on the eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and in the forty-third year of Her Majesty's reign,.
H. PALMER
CONSTITUTION ACT AMENDMENT ACT OF 1890,
54 VIC. NO.3
OFFICIALS IN PARLIAMENT ACT 1896-1988
Duties imposed by law on any Minister may be ordered to be performed by other Minister. (1) The Governor may from time to time
Notice of any such authority and power may be published in the Gazette and any such authority and power shall be judicially notified. a) The term "Premier and Chief Secretary of Queensland". includes any such officer who is authorized and empowered by the Governor under subsection one of section eight of this Act to act temporarily in the office of Premier and Chief Secretary of Queensland; and. In every law, rule and regulation in which the name Colonial Secretary or the name Colonial Treasurer is mentioned or referred to, the name Secretary of the Interior shall be substituted for the name Colonial Secretary, and the name Treasurer shall be inserted for the name Colonial Treasurer, and the same shall be read and construed in accordance with this.
CONSTITUTION ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1896-1988
All bye-laws or provisions contained in any Act or Order in Council relating to the Constitution of Queensland which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of any such. This Act may be cited as "The Constitution Act Amendment Act of and shall be read and construed with and as an amendment to the Constitution of Queensland. An Act to extend the legislative powers of the States in and in relation to coastal waters.
COASTAL WATERS (STATE TITLE) ACT 1980, NO. 77
With regard to a part of the seabed that, immediately before the entry into force of this Act, was occupied by or by constructions, facilities or other property belonging to: the Commonwealth or an authority in the Commonwealth, subsection and (2) does not come into force on the commencement of this Act, but comes into force on any date fixed by the Minister by order in the Gazette as the date on which these subsections are to come into force. for that part of the seabed, and so come into force as if the references in these subsections to the date of the commencement of this Act were references to the date so fixed. Nothing in this Act affects the status of Australia's territorial waters under international law or the Commonwealth's rights and duties in relation to ensuring compliance, in relation to that sea or other waters, with international law, including the provisions of international law. agreements binding on the Commonwealth, and in particular the provisions of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone relating to the right of innocent passage of ships. The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 has effect on and from the date of commencement of this Act in respect of any place in the coastal waters of a State which is a Commonwealth place as defined in section 3 of that Act, as if that place was within the state's borders.
AUSTRALIA ACTS (REQUEST) ACT 1985, NO. 69
B. CAMPBELL, Governor
Any such appointment as aforesaid of a deputy may be revoked at any time by the Governor of the State. AND WHEREAS We have declared in Our said Letters Patent that- in the case of the Office of Governor of the State becoming. In the case where the Governor of the State accepts the administration of the Government of the Commonwealth;.
CONSTITUTION (OFFICE OF GOVERNOR) ACT 1987, NO. 73
OF QUEENSLAND
In the event of- (a) the Governor having occasion to be temporarily absent for. a short period from the State or from the seat of government, but not from the State except for the purpose of administering the Government of the Commonwealth;. This section shall not be construed to require the Governor of the State to constitute and appoint a deputy on an event referred to in subsection (1). So long as the provisions of this Part are in force, the provisions of the Letters Patent constituting the Office of the Governor of Queensland, made by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second on 14 February 1986 and proclaimed in the State.
AND AMENDMENTS
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ACTS, LAWS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
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