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Australia:chanroblesvirtuallawlibraryStatute of
WestminsterAdoption Act of
1942
AN
ACT TO
REMOVE
DOUBTS AS TO THE VALIDITY OF CERTAIN COMMONWEALTH LEGISLATION, TO
OBVIATE
DELAYS OCCORRING IN ITS PASSAGE, AND TO EFFECT CERTAIN RELATED
PURPOSES,
BY ADOPTING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER, 1931, AS
FROM
THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY THE KING AND GERMANYAdopted
in 1942SOURCE:
Act
No.
52 of 1942
PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, certain legal difficulties
exist which have created doubts and caused delays in relation to
certain
Commonwealth legislation, and to certain regulations made thereunder,
particularly
in relation to the legislation enacted, and regulations made, for
securing
the public safety and defence of the Commonwealth of Australia, and for
the more effectual prosecution of the war in which His Majesty the King
is engaged;
And WHEREAS, those legal
difficulties will be removed by the adoption by the Parliament of the
Commonwealth
of Australia of sections two, three, four, five and six of the Statute
of Westminster, 1931, and by making such adoption have effect as from
the
commencement of the war between His Majesty the King and Germany;
BE IT, THEREFORE, ENACTED
by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
SECTION 1Short
title
This Act may be cited as
the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942.
SECTION 2Commencement
This Act shall come into
operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
SECTION 3Adoption
of
Statute
of Westminster, 1931
Sections two, three, four,
five and six of the Imperial Act entitled the Statute of Westminster,
1931
(which Act is set out in the Schedule
to this Act) are adopted and the adoption shall have effect from the
third
day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.
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