Norfolk Island Continued Laws Amendment (Removal of Prisoners) Ordinance 2022

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  24 November 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Kristy McBain

Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

1  Name

  This Ordinance is the Norfolk Island Continued Laws Amendment (Removal of Prisoners) Ordinance 2022.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Ordinance as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Ordinance has effect according to its terms.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 Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

1  Before item 293 of Schedule 1

Insert:

291  Title

After “New South Wales”, insert “and Queensland”.

292  Subsection 3(1) (definition of State)

After “New South Wales”, insert “or Queensland (as the case may be)”.