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Constitution Act 1986

Miscellaneous provisions

25: General Assembly Library to be known as the Parliamentary Library

You could also call this:

"The library's new name is the Parliamentary Library, not the General Assembly Library."

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The library that was called the General Assembly Library will now be called the Parliamentary Library. You will see this new name used from the time the Constitution Act 1986 started. The person in charge of the library, who was called the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library, will now be called the Parliamentary Librarian. When you read other laws or documents, you will see the old names replaced with the new ones, unless it is clear that the old names are still being used, but there is an exception mentioned in section 27. This change happens because of the Constitution Act 1986, and you will start to see the new names used from then on.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions

25General Assembly Library to be known as the Parliamentary Library

  1. The library heretofore known as the General Assembly Library shall, as from the commencement of this Act, be known as the Parliamentary Library.

  2. The officer heretofore known as the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library shall be known, as from the commencement of this Act, as the Parliamentary Librarian.

  3. Subject to section 27, all references to the General Assembly Library or to the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library in any other enactment or in any document whatsoever shall hereafter, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to the Parliamentary Library and to the Parliamentary Librarian respectively.