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amended Act is further amended as provided by this section.

(3)    The sections of the amended Act are renumbered in a single series so that they bear consecutive Arabic numerals.

(4)    Any provision of the amended Act that refers to a section of that Act that has been renumbered under this section is amended by omitting that reference and substituting a reference to the section as so renumbered.

(5)    A reference in a provision of a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory enacted before the commencement of this section (whether or not that provision has come into operation), or in any instrument or document, to a section of the amended Act that has been renumbered under this section is to be construed as a reference to that section as so renumbered.

Other consequential amendments

15. The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are amended as set out in that Schedule.

Cessation of certain modifications of Act

16. The modifications of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court Act 1933 specified in Schedule 1 of the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations cease to have effect.

Repeal of Ordinance

  17. The Sheriff Ordinance 1934 of the Territory is repealed.

                  SCHEDULE 1 Section 13

AMENDMENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY SUPREME COURT ACT 1933

Section 1:

  Omit "Australian Capital Territory".

Section 3:

  Repeal the section.

Section 5:

  Insert:

" 'President' means the President of the Australian Capital Territory Administrative Appeals Tribunal appointed under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1989 of the Territory;".

Subsection 7(1):

  Omit "Governor-General", substitute "Executive".

Subsection 7(1A):

Omit "Parliament or of a court of a State", substitute "Commonwealth Parliament or of a court of a State or Territory".

Subsection 7(1B):

  Omit the subsection.

Subsection 7(2):

  (a)       Omit "Governor-General", substitute "Executive".

     (b)      Omit "Parliament", substitute "Commonwealth Parliament, or a superior court of record of a State or Territory,".

Subsection 7(3):

  Omit the subsection.

Subsection 7(5):

Omit "Parliament", substitute "Commonwealth Parliament or a superior court of record of a State or Territory".

Subsection 7(6):

   (a)     Omit "Governor-General", substitute "Executive".

     (b)     Omit "both Houses of the Parliament in the same session", substitute "the Assembly".

Subsection 7(7):

  Omit "Governor-General", substitute "Attorney-General".

SCHEDULE 1—continued

Section 7AA:

  Repeal the section, substitute:

Seniority of Judges

  "7AA.(1) The Chief Justice is the senior Judge of the Court.

"(2) The other Judges (including the additional Judges) have seniority as between themselves:

     (a)     according to the dates on which their commissions took effect; or

     (b)    if the commissions of 2 or more of them took effect on the same date, according to the precedence assigned to them by their commissions.".

Subsection 8(1):

  After "8AA" insert ", 8AABA".

After section 8AA:

  Insert:

Exercise of jurisdiction under subsections 46(4) and 48(2) of