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Title

Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Bill 2021

Database

Bills & Legislation

Long Title

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

Date

04-08-2021 03:55 PM

Source

Senate

Parl No.

46

Bill Number

S09/21

Bill Type

Private

Portfolio

 

Reps Bill Code

O

Status

Not Proceeding

System Id

legislation/bills/s1309_first-senate/0000


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Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Bill 2021

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:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Act 2021 .

2   Commencement

             (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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this Act

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

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.

3   Object

                   The object of this Act is to deliver people living in the Northern Territory the same rights as people who reside in Australian states.

4   Schedules

                   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.