2002

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Charter of the United Nations Amendment Bill 2002

No.      , 2002

(Foreign Affairs)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945, and for related purposes

Contents
1	Short title	1
2	Commencement	1
3	Schedule(s)	2
Schedule 1—Amendments	3
Charter of the United Nations Act 1945	3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1  Short title
		This Act may be cited as the Charter of the United Nations Amendment Act 2002.
2  Commencement
	(1)	Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

Commencement information	
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details	
1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent		
2.  Schedule 1	Immediately after the commencement of Part 4 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945		
Note:	This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
	(2)	Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part of this Act. This information may be included in any published version of this Act.
3  Schedule(s)
		Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments
  
Charter of the United Nations Act 1945
1  Subsection 22(1)
After “owner”, insert “or holder”.
2  Subsection 22(2)
After “owner”, insert “or holder”.
3  After subsection 22(3)
Insert:
	(3A)	The Minister may issue such a notice on his or her own initiative or upon application under subsection (1) or (2).
4  Subsection 22(5)
After “owner”, insert “or holder”.