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9  Special rules relating to the Legislative Assembly

Requirements relating to the Legislative Assembly that need not be complied with
 (1) A person or body need not comply with a requirement imposed by an enactment on the person or body to do either of the following:
 (a) give (however described) a thing to the Legislative Assembly, a committee of the Legislative Assembly or an officer or member of the Legislative Assembly;
 (b) act consistently (however described) with a resolution or recommendation of the Legislative Assembly.
Failure to comply with the requirement does not affect the validity of any act.
Note 1: Enactments may use various verbs to express requirements to give something to the Legislative Assembly, a committee of the Legislative Assembly, or an officer or member of the Legislative Assembly. Some examples of such verbs are giving, furnishing, laying before, presenting to, tabling, notifying, advising and providing.
Note 2: Enactments may express in various ways a requirement for a person or body to act consistently with a resolution or recommendation of the Legislative Assembly. For example enactments may refer to a person or body doing something in accordance with a resolution of the Assembly, on the recommendation of the Assembly or on an address from the Assembly.

Acts valid despite absence of action relating to the Legislative Assembly
 (2) Despite an enactment providing for a thing to be done by or in relation to the Legislative Assembly:
 (a) before a power can be exercised, or a function or duty performed, by an authority other than the Assembly; or
 (b) in connection with the exercise of a power, or the performance of a function or duty, by such an authority;
the power may be exercised, or the function or duty performed, by the authority even though that thing has not been done, or is not done, by or in relation to the Legislative Assembly.

Division 2—Delegation of Commonwealth Minister's role