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AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Conversion into Public Company) Act 1989

No. 66 of 1989

An Act to amend the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Act 1970 to convert the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation into a public company, and for related purposes

[Assented to 19 June 1989]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Conversion into Public Company) Act 1989.

Commencement
2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), subsection 14 (1) commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this subsection.
(3) If subsection 14 (1) does not commence under subsection (2) of this section within the period of 4 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), section 4, subsections 6 (1) and 7 (1), sections 8, 9, 10 and 12, subsection 14 (2) and sections 15 and 16 commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this subsection.
(5) If the provisions referred to in subsection (4) do not commence under that subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period.
(6) Subsection 7 (2) commences immediately after section 12.

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS ENGINEERING CORPORATION ACT 1970

Principal Act
3. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Act 19701.

Title
4. The title of the Principal Act is repealed and the following title is substituted:

"An Act relating to the constitution of SMEC as a public company, and for other purposes".
5. After section 2 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Interpretation
"3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
'articles' means articles of association;
'Australia' includes the external Territories;
'authorised person' means:
        (a) the Minister; or
        (b) the holder of an authorising office;

     'authorising office' means an office, in the Department, which is declared by writing signed by the Minister to be an authorising office for the purposes of this definition;
     'employment', in relation to a staff member, means employment by, or service with, SMEC;
     'engineering work' includes:
        (a) an actual or proposed continuation, completion, repair, alteration, restriction or extension of an engineering work; or
        (b) a proposed engineering work;
     'group company' means: