Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00093:section:12:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00093
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 9954–12540

the A.C.T. Self‑Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988;
may be expressed to take effect from the date of commencement of a provision of the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988.
 (2A) A notice in the Gazette of any such Ordinance having been made, and of the place or places where copies of the Ordinance can be purchased, shall be sufficient compliance with the requirement of paragraph (a) of the last preceding subsection.
 (2B) Where a notice of an Ordinance having been made is published in accordance with subsection (2A), copies of the Ordinance shall, at the time of publication of the notice or as soon as practicable thereafter, be made available for purchase at the place, or at each of the places, specified in the notice.
 (2C) Where, on the date of publication of a notice referred to in subsection (2B), there are no copies of the Ordinance to which the notice relates available for purchase at the place, or at one or more of the places, specified in the notice, the Minister shall cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting days of that House after that date, a statement that copies of the Ordinance were not so available and the reason why they were not so available.
 (2D) Failure to comply with a requirement of subsection (2B) or (2C) shall not be taken to constitute a failure to comply with paragraph (2)(a) or subsection (2A).
 (3) If an Ordinance is not laid before each House of the Parliament in accordance with paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of this section, it ceases to have effect.
 (4) If either House of the Parliament, in pursuance of a motion of which notice has been given within fifteen sitting days after an Ordinance has been laid before that House, passes a resolution disallowing the Ordinance or a part of the Ordinance, the Ordinance or part so disallowed thereupon ceases to have effect.
 (5) If, at the expiration of fifteen sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance has been given in a House of the Parliament, being notice given within fifteen sitting days after the Ordinance has been laid before that House:
 (a) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has not been called on; or
 (b) the motion has been called on, moved and seconded and has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of;
the Ordinance or part, as the case may be, specified in the motion shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed.
 (5A) If, before the expiration of fifteen sitting days after notice of a motion to disallow an Ordinance or part of an