Talk:Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly

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[edit] Purpose-built

Is the Legislative Assembly in a "purpose-built" facility as the article claims? I thought the building used to belong to the Trade Labour Council or something. El T 15:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

You're right - that was a stuffup on my part. However, where are you getting your information about its name? Ambi 15:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
From the Legislative Assembly website; also from exposure to ACT legislation (where that's how they always refer to it). El T 16:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
They may use this in particularly formal contexts, but even their website refers to this form just as much, and a Google test overwhelmingly supports this one. Ambi 23:34, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Okay, but it should be at least mentioned, just as the article on Australia mentions the "Commonwealth of Australia".
Fine by me. Ambi 02:03, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

I've changed the categories on this article as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics/Parliaments. It may seem unnecessary in the context of the very few articles in the ACT categories, but it will acheive consistency among Aust Parl categoriess and international legislature categories. -- Adz|talk 12:38, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Governor/Administrator

I was about to remove this:

but thought I'd discuss it here first. A governor or administrator, if there were one, would be part of the ACT governmental system, but would not be part of the Assembly as such. In that sense the Assembly is no different from any other Australian legislature. We could make the point that the lack of such an office makes the ACT unique in Australia, but doesn't make the ACT Legislative Assembly unique. Comments?

Also, we don't say anywhere what happens when a bill passes the assembly. Does it become law automatically? Does the Governor-General have to give royal assent? Seems odd that the G-G has the power to overturn an ACT LA law, if he's not involved in assenting to laws in the first place. What is the process? JackofOz 10:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Aha. I've found a fact sheet by the Legislative Assembly that clarifies the situation just perfectly. Can this be incorporated into the article somehow? Rebecca 11:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Excellent, Rebecca. I think the relevant bits of that sheet should became part of our article, and the whole sheet can be a source. JackofOz 03:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Exactly a year later, I came here to pose this percise question -- i.e. who gives Royal Assent to laws pased by the ACT assembly. I don't think it was ever added to the article and the link above is now dead. --Jfruh (talk) 17:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I've dug up another link that explains things.
"The provisions for the executive branch of government do not include a vice-regal post exercising authority as the representative of the Head of State. There is no role of Administrator, Governor or Governor-General, as in the state, Northern Territory and federal constitutions."
"Instead, the functions of the head of the Executive – commissioning government, proroguing parliament and enacting legislation – are exercised by the Assembly itself and by the Chief Minister. Instead of vice-regal or regal assent, a Bill passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly is enacted on ‘notification’ – publication of a notice authorised by the Chief Minister, in the Government Gazette." [1]
Does someone want to add this to the article? Rebecca 00:46, 19 June 2007 (UTC)