Section 5 of the Constitution of Urabba Parks

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Section 5 of the Constitution of Urabba Parks provides the Manager-General may call sessions of the Parliament and must do so within 30 days of a general election.

Compiled text (Section 5 - Sessions of the Parliament—prorogation and dissolution)

(1)    The Manager-General may by Proclamation or otherwise:

(a)    appoint such times for holding the sessions of the Parliament as the Manager-General thinks fit;

(b)    prorogue the Parliament and may also from time to time; and

(c)    subject to law, dissolve the House of Ordinaries.

Summoning Parliament

(2)    After any general election the Parliament shall be summoned to meet not later than 30 days after the day appointed for the return of the writs.

Enactment information

Status

Proposed

Commencement

Law not made

Endnotes

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Legislation history

Statute or Instrument	Number and year	Assent	Commencement	Application, saving and transitional provisions
Constitution Adoption 2021	No. 1, 2021	11 Jan 2021	1 Feb 2021 (gaz 2021,p. 1)

Amendment history

Provision affected	How affected

Relevant notes from the explanatory memorandum

60.  This section, based on the corresponding section in the Australian Constitution, provides the Manager-General may set the sessions of the Parliament and prorogue the Parliament.

61.  Under paragraph (1)(c), the Manager-General may, subject to law, dissolve the House of Ordinaries.  The words ‘subject to law’, which do not appear in the corresponding section in the Australian Constitution, imply that the Parliament may provide for fixed terms. See notes 123 and 124 regarding dissolution of the House.

62.  Subsection (2) provides the Parliament not later than thirty days after the day appointed for the return of the writs of a general election.