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FLAGS.


No. 1 of 1954.

An Act to declare a certain Flag to be the Australian National Flag and to make other provision with respect to Flags.

[Reserved for Her Majesty’s pleasure, 12th December, 1953.]

[Queen’s Assent, 14th February, 1954.]

[Queen’s Assent made known to each House of the Parliament, 15th February, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Flags Act 1953.

Extension to Territories. 2. This Act extends to all the Territories of the Commonwealth.

The Australian National Flag. 3. The flag described in the First Schedule to this Act, being the flag a reproduction of which is set out in Part I. of the Second Schedule to this Act, is declared to be the Australian National Flag.