Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00719:section:244:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00719
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 244 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 387471–390231

Parliament of the State has adopted the relevant version of this Act—the adoption terminates.
 (6) A State also stops being a referring State if the State's amendment reference in relation to personal property (other than fixtures or water rights):
 (a) terminates; or
 (b) is qualified or restricted to any degree.
 (7) However, a State does not stop being a referring State only because the State's amendment reference in relation to fixtures or transferable water rights (or each of them):
 (a) terminates; or
 (b) is qualified or restricted to any degree.

Definitions
 (8) In this section:
amendment includes the insertion, omission, repeal, substitution or relocation of words or matter.
amendment reference of a State means a reference by the Parliament of the State to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of the referred PPS matters in relation to personal property covered by paragraph (4)(a), (b) or (c).
express amendment means the direct amendment of this Act, but does not include the enactment by a Commonwealth Act of a provision that has, or will have, substantive effect otherwise than as part of the text of this Act.
referral law, of a State, means the law of the State that refers the matters covered by subsection (4) to the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
referred provisions means the provisions of the relevant version of this Act, to the extent to which they deal with matters that are included in the legislative powers of the Parliaments of the States.
relevant version of this Act means:
 (a) if, at the time the State's referral law was enacted, this Act had not been enacted—this Act as originally enacted; or
 (b) otherwise—this Act as originally enacted, and as amended:
 (i) by the Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 and the Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Act 2010; or
 (ii) by the Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 2009, the Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Act 2010 and the Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Act 2011; or
 (iii) from time to time, until the earliest time that any provision of the State's referral law commences.
transferable water rights, in relation to a State, means any water rights that are transferable under the general law or a law of the State by the holder of the right (whether or not the right is exclusive, and whether or not a transfer is restricted or requires consent).
water rights, in relation to a State, means any rights, entitlements or authorities, whether or not exclusive, that are granted by or under the general law or a law of the State in relation to the control, use or flow of water, but does not include any right, entitlement