Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts15. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Executive may, if a notice has not been published under subsection (4), by notice in the Gazette, declare that the operation of this Act is suspended from a day specified in the notice and, where such a notice is published, this Act ceases to be in force from that day until a notice is published under subsection (3) revoking the first-mentioned notice.
(2) The Executive shall not make a notice under subsection (1) having effect from a particular day unless satisfied that the Attorney-General has given notice of his or her intention to seek the making of such a notice to the Commonwealth and to each other State (other than a State in relation to which a notice under subsection (5) has been made) not earlier than 6 months before that day.
(3) Where the Executive has made a notice under subsection (1), it may, by notice in the Gazette , revoke the first-mentioned notice.
(4) Where the Executive is satisfied that the Acts of the Commonwealth and other States relating to cross-vesting of jurisdiction are not effective to invest the Supreme Court with, or confer on that court, jurisdiction of the Federal Court, the Family Court or a Supreme Court of another State or of a Territory, the Executive may, by notice in the Gazette , declare that this Act shall, on a day specified in the notice, cease to be in force and, where such a notice is published, this Act ceases to be in force on that day.
(5) Where the Executive is satisfied that an Act of the Commonwealth or another State relating to cross-vesting of jurisdiction has been repealed, rendered inoperative, suspended or altered in a substantial manner, the Executive may, by notice in the Gazette , declare that this Act shall, on a day specified in the notice, cease to be in force in relation to the Commonwealth or a Territory or in relation to that State and, where such a notice is published, this Act ceases to be in force in relation to the Commonwealth or that Territory or State on that day.
(6) Where—
(a) the Executive has published a notice under subsection (5) in relation to the Commonwealth or a Territory or a State; and
(b) the Executive is satisfied that there is in force an Act of the Commonwealth or that State relating to cross-vesting of jurisdiction, being an Act in terms substantially corresponding to the terms of this Act;
the Executive may, by notice in the Gazette , declare that this Act again applies in relation to the Commonwealth or that Territory or State from a day specified in the notice and, where such a notice is published, this Act applies in relation to the Commonwealth or that Territory or State on and after that day.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 13 May 1993]
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