X-Message-Number: 6367 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:45:21 -0700 From: David Brandt-Erichsen <> Subject: Australia law The court action brought by Australian Medical Association Northern Territory Branch President Dr. Chris Wake was seeking an injunction to prevent the "gazetting" of the Northern Territory of Australia Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. Before becoming law, notice of the Act must be "gazetted" or placed in the Government Gazette, the official method of communicating key government events to the community. It turns out that the Act was actually gazetted on June 6th and quietly released last week, unbenownst to Dr. Wake, who is now accusing the government of being "underhanded" in the matter. He now has to change his legal arguments to be not against the gazetting, which has already occured, but against the final signing off of the regulations which accompany the Act. The Supreme Court of the Northern Territories is still scheduled to hear the case June 21. The full gazettal notice reads as follows: Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT I, KEITH JOHN AUSTIN ASCHE, the Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia, in pursuance of Section 2 of the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, fix 1 July 1996 as the date on which that Act (No. 12 of 1995) shall come into operation. Dated 6th June, 1996. K.J.A. ASCHE Administrator Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6367