Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Queensland Consequential Amendments) Ordinance 2021

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.

Dated 16 December 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Nola Marino

Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories
Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Norfolk Island Applied Laws Ordinance 2016

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

1  Name

  This Ordinance is the Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Queensland Consequential Amendments) Ordinance 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Ordinance specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Ordinance as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Ordinance.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Ordinance. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Ordinance.

3  Authority

  This Ordinance is made under section 19A of the Norfolk Island Act 1979.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Ordinance has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Norfolk Island Applied Laws Ordinance 2016

1  At the end of section 7

Add:

 (3) The Minister may, in writing, delegate the Minister’s power under subsection (1) to:

 (a) the Secretary of the Department; or

 (b) a Deputy Secretary of the Department.

 (4) However, an instrument of delegation made under subsection (3) is of no effect on or after 1 January 2023.

 (5) In exercising powers under a delegation, the delegate must comply with any directions of the Minister.

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

2  At the end of section 6

Add:

 (3) The Minister may, in writing, delegate the Minister’s power under subsection (1) to:

 (a) the Secretary of the Department; or

 (b) a Deputy Secretary of the Department.

 (4) However, an instrument of delegation made under subsection (3) is of no effect on or after 1 January 2023.

 (5) In exercising powers under a delegation, the delegate must comply with any directions of the Minister.