§ 48. “Laws Passed by the Federal Council.”
The following Acts have been passed by the Federal Council, viz:—
(1.) 49 Vic. No. 1. An Act for shortening the language used in Acts of the Federal Council of Australasia. Cited as “The Federal Council Interpretation Act, 1886.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 19 Feb., 1886, p. 396.)
(2.) 49 Vic. No. 2. An Act to facilitate the proof throughout the Federation of Acts of the Federal Council and of the Acts of the Parliaments of the Australasian Colonies, and of Judicial and Official Documents and of the Signatures of certain Public Officers. Cited as “The Federal Council Evidence Act, 1886.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 19 Feb., 1886, p. 397.)
(3.) 49 Vic. No. 3. An Act to authorize the service of Civil Process out of the jurisdiction of the colony in which it is issued. Cited as “The Australasian Civil Process Act, 1886.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 19 Feb., 1886, p. 397.)
(4.) 49 Vic. No. 4. An Act to make provision for the enforcement within the Federation of judgments of the Supreme Court of the Colonies of the Federation. Cited as “The Australasian Judgments Act, 1886.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 19 Feb., 1886, p. 398.)
(5.) 51 Vic. No. 1. An Act to regulate the Pearl Shell and Beche de mer Fisheries in Australasian waters adjacent to the colony of Queensland. Cited as “The Queensland Pearl Shell and Beche de mer Fisheries (extra-territorial) Act, 1888.” Reserved for the Royal assent 20 Jan., 1888, and proclaimed 19 July, 1888. (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 17 Aug., 1888, p. 2576; 31 Aug., 1888, p. 2706; and 7 Sept., 1888, p. 2753.)
(6.) 52 Vic. No. 1. An Act to regulate the Pearl Shell and Beche de mer Fisheries in Australasian waters adjacent to the colony of Western Australia. Cited as “The Western Australian Pearl Shell and Beche de mer Fisheries (extra-territorial) Act of 1889.” Reserved for the Royal assent 4 Feb. 1889, and proclaimed 18 Jan., 1890. (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 31 Jan., 1890, p. 332.)
(7.) 54 Vic. No. 1. An Act to facilitate the recognition in other colonies of Orders and Declarations of the Supreme Court of any colony in matters of Lunacy. Cited as “The Australasian Orders in Lunacy Act, 1891.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 17 Feb., 1891, p. 903.)
(7.) 56 Vic. No. 1. An Act to make provision for the Discipline and Government of the Garrisons established at King George's Sound and Thursday Island at the joint expense of the Australian Colonies or some of them (3 Feb., 1893). Cited as “The Federal Garrisons Act, 1893.” (Published in the Vic. Gov. Gaz., 3 March, 1893, p. 1131.)
(8.) 60 Vic. No. 1. An Act to provide for the naturalization within the Australian Colonies, or some of them, of persons of European descent naturalized in any of such colonies (1 Feb., 1897). Cited as “The Australasian Naturalization Act, 1897.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 19 March, 1897, pp. 1121–2.)
(9.) 60 Vic. No. 2. An Act to make provisions for the enforcement in certain cases within the Australasian Colonies, or some of them, of Orders of the Supreme Courts of such Colonies for the production of Testamentary Instruments (1 Feb., 1897). Cited as “The Australasian Testamentary Process Act, 1897.” (Vic. Gov. Gaz., 19 March, 1897, p. 1123.)
The colonies represented in the Federal Council were:—Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, Fiji; and also, for a period of two years (from 10th December, 1888, to 10th December, 1890), South Australia. (See Historical Introduction, p. 114, supra.)
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Application of Colonial Boundaries Act. (58 and 59 Vic. c. 34.)
8. After the passing of this Act the Colonial Boundaries Act, 189549, shall not apply to any colony which becomes a State of the Commonwealth; but the Commonwealth shall be taken to be a self-governing colony for the purposes of that Act.
HISTORICAL NOTE.—At the Melbourne Session of the Convention, after the first report, this clause was proposed by Mr. O'Connor in precisely the form in which it now stands. (Conv. Deb., Melb., pp. 1,826-7.)