

2019-2021
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Bill 2021
No. , 2021
(Senator McMahon)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 and repeal the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 , and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Object.................................................................................................. 2
4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Ensuring Northern Territory rights 3
Part 1—Amendments of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 3
Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 3
Part 2—Repeal of the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 4
Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 4
Part 3—Application 5
A Bill for an Act to amend the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 and repeal the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 , and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Act 2021 .
(1) Each provision of this Act 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.
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1. The whole of this Act |
The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
The object of this Act is to deliver people living in the Northern Territory the same rights as people who reside in Australian states.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.