Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00613:section:144:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00613
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 144 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 269446–271355

to be a participating State if:
 (a) the State's amendment reference terminates; and
 (b) subsection (8) does not apply to the termination.
 (8) A State does not cease to be a participating State because of the termination of its amendment reference if:
 (a) the termination is effected by the Governor of that State fixing a day by Proclamation as the day on which the reference terminates; and
 (b) the day fixed is no earlier than the first day after the end of the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which the Proclamation is published; and
 (c) that State's amendment reference, and the amendment reference of every other participating State, terminates on the same day.

Definitions
 (9) In this Act:
adoption Act, of a State, means the Act of the State that adopts the relevant version of this Act and refers the amendment reference to the Commonwealth Parliament.
express amendment of this Act means the direct amendment of the text of this Act (whether by the insertion, omission, repeal, substitution or relocation of words or matter) by another Commonwealth Act or by an instrument under a Commonwealth 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.
initial referred provisions means the original version of this Act, to the extent to which it deals with matters that are included in the legislative powers of the Parliament of the State.
original version of this Act means this Act as originally enacted.
referral Act, of a State, means the Act of the State that refers the text reference and the amendment reference to the Commonwealth Parliament.
relevant version of this Act, in relation to a State's adoption Act, means the original version of this Act and as subsequently amended by amendments enacted at any time before the enactment of the State's adoption Act.