An Act to confirm certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures.
W HEREAS it is expedient to confirm certain Colonial Acts the validity of which is open to doubt by reason of their not having been reserved for the signification of Her late Majesty's pleasure:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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Confirmation of certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures.1 Confirmation of certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures.
1. Each of the Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall be deemed to be and to have been, as from the date of the assent thereto of the Governor of the Colony by whose Legislature it was passed, as valid as if it had been reserved for the signification of Her late Majesty's pleasure and Her late Majesty's assent to the Act had been duly given and signified in the colony at the date aforesaid.
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2. This Act may be cited as theColonial Acts Confirmation Act, 1901.
S C H E D U L E.
Acts Confirmed.
Acts of the Colony of New South Wales.
The Federal Elections Act, 1900 (No. 73 of 1900).
The Parliamentary Electorates Redistribution Act, 1900 (No. 84 of 1900).
Act of the Colony of Queensland.
The Parliament of the Commonwealth Elections Act and the Elections Acts, 1885 to 1898, Amendment Act of 1900 (No. 25 of 1900).
Acts of the Colony of Western Australia.
An Act to correct certain errors in the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 1899 (No. II. of 1900).
The Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1900 (No. V. of 1900).
