The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of a pair of mirror statutes, one an act of the Parliament of Australia and the other an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which together came into force on 3 March 1986 at 05:00 GMT. The Act ended all power of the United Kingdom Parliament to legislate with effect in Australia, gave state premiers rather than the UK government the right to advise the monarch on the appointment or removal of a state governor, and eliminated the last remaining avenues of appeal from Australian courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. The Australian Act remains unamended, while the UK Act's status is recorded as amended. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Enacted Year Enacted Date Jurisdiction Enacted ByParliament of Australia and Parliament of the United Kingdom 1 Official CitationAustralia Act 1986 (Cth); Australia Act 1986 (UK) c. 2 1 Legal StatusThe Australian Act remains unamended; the UK Act's status is recorded as amended. 1 Legal Status
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The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an act of the Parliament of Australia, the other an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an act of the Parliament of Australia, the other an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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She assented to the Australia Act 1986 (UK) on 17 February 1986 and on 24 February proclaimed that it would come into force at 05:00 Greenwich Mean Time (Coordinated Universal Time) on 3 March.
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Transcript, Media release, 2 March 1986, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Proclamation of the Australia Act 1986 (Cth) Retrieved 14 January 2020 The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an act of the Parliament of Australia, the other an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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In Group: Dominion and Commonwealth Constitutional Acts, Introduction, sentence 2
The Acts eliminated the ability for the United Kingdom to legislate with effect in Australia, for the UK to be involved in any Australian government, and for an appeal from any Australian court to a British court.
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