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Committee Act
              79d. Lands Acquisition Act
TABLE OF PROVISIONS—continued
Section

PART III—AMENDMENT OF THE MATERNITY LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) ACT 1973

     23. Principal Act
     24. Interpretation

PART IV—CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

     25. Consequential amendments
SCHEDULE
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

OTC (Conversion into Public Company) Act 1988

No. 129 of 1988

An Act to amend the Overseas Telecommunications Act 1946 to convert OTC into a public company, and for other purposes

[Assented to 14 December 1988]

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 OTC (Conversion into Public Company) Act 1988.

Commencement
2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Subsection 8 (1) commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this subsection.
(3) Subsections 7 (2) and 8 (2) and sections 9, 11 to 22 (inclusive) and 25 commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this subsection.
(4) Subsection 8 (3) commences immediately after the commencement of section 11.

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE OVERSEAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1946

Principal Act
3. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Overseas Telecommunications Act 19461.

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 The title of the Principal Act is repealed and the following title is substituted:

"An Act relating to the constitution of OTC as a public company, and for other purposes".

Short title
5. The short title of the Principal Act is amended by omitting "Overseas Telecommunications" and substituting "OTC".
6. After section 2 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Interpretation
"3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
     'amount' includes a nil amount;
     'articles' means articles of association;
     'Australia' includes the external Territories;
     'Australian Capital Territory' includes the Jervis Bay Territory;
     '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, OTC;
     'group company' means:
         (a) OTC; or
         (b) a wholly-owned subsidiary of OTC;
     'liability' includes a debt or obligation;

     'member', in relation to OTC at any time before the transition, includes a Commissioner;
     'memorandum' means memorandum of association;
     'operate', in relation to a name, has the meaning given by section 4;
     'OTC means the body corporate that, at the commencement of this section, exists, because of subsection 8 (1), under the name 'Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia)';
     'overseas message'