PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ACT 1974

No. 48 of 1974

An Act to amend the Public Works Committee Act 1969-1973.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows: —

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Public Works Committee Act 1974.

(2) The Public Works Committee Act 1969-1973 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Public Works Committee Act 1969-1974.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Reference of public works to the Committee.

3. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (8) the following sub-section:—

“(9) The reference in sub-section (8) to the estimated cost of a public work shall be read as a reference to the estimate of cost made at the stage of design development at which all particulars of the work substantially affecting its cost have been determined.”.

Formal amendments.

4. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

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SCHEDULE

FORMAL AMENDMENTS

1. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the words “of this Act”, “to this Act” and “of this section” (wherever occurring):—

Sections 5 (definition of “assessor”), 7(7)(b), 8, 19(1), 23(4)(b) and (6), 28, 29, 30, 33(3) and 37(1) and (2).

2. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the following table:—