Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00608:section:6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00608
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6
Character Range: 3082–4765

6  Continuance of laws

 (1) Subject to this Act, all laws in force in the Territory immediately before the proclaimed day shall, so far as applicable, continue in force until other provision is made.

 (2) Where, by any law of the State in force in the Territory on the proclaimed day, any power or function is vested in the Governor of the State, or in any Authority of the State, that power or function in relation to the Territory shall be vested in and exercised or performed by the Governor‑General, or the Authority exercising similar powers and functions under the Commonwealth, as the case requires or as the Governor‑General directs:
Provided that the Governor‑General may direct that any such power or function may be exercised or performed on behalf of the Commonwealth by the Authority of the State in which it was previously vested; and while that direction remains in force the Authority of the State shall, in regard to the exercise or performance of that power or function, be deemed to be an Authority of the Commonwealth:
Provided further that, until a date to be fixed by Proclamation, where a Crown grant in fee simple of any land referred to in the next succeeding section is issuable, the grant may be issued by the Governor of the State in the name of the King and under the Seal of the State, and any grant so issued shall vest in the grantee the fee simple in the land subject to the reservations and exceptions contained in the grant, and the land in respect of which the grant is issued shall, until a date to be fixed by Proclamation, be deemed to be under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900 of the State in its application to the Territory.