Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am	amended	LW	legislation website	Sch	Schedule
Cl	clause	No	number	Schs	Schedules
Cll	clauses	p	page	Sec	section
Div	Division	pp	pages	Secs	sections
Divs	Divisions	Reg	Regulation	Subdiv	Subdivision
GG	Government Gazette	Regs	Regulations	Subdivs	Subdivisions
Ins	inserted	Rep	repealed	Subst	substituted

Table of amending instruments

Geographical Names Act 1966 No 13. Assented to 30.3.1966. Date of commencement for certain purposes, 30.3.1966, sec 1 (3); for all purposes, 26.8.1966, sec 1 (2) and GG No 92 of 26.8.1966, p 3548.

1987	No 48	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 32, except as provided by sec 2 (13), 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
	No 63	Miscellaneous Acts (Education and Public Instruction) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 3.6.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 17.8.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 126 of 31.7.1987, p 4254.
1988	No 131	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 3) 1988. Assented to 30.12.1988. Date of commencement of Sch 10, 1.11.1989, sec 2 (2) and GG No 105 of 27.10.1989, p 8851.
1990	No 46	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990. Assented to 22.6.1990. Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, assent, sec 2.
1993	No 33	Roads Act 1993. Assented to 8.6.1993. Date of commencement, 1.7.1993, sec 2 and GG No 73 of 1.7.1993, p 3343.
	No 47	Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1993. Assented to 15.6.1993. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
	No 108	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1993. Assented to 2.12.1993. Date of commencement of items (1), (2), (3) (b), (c), (g) and (h) of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, assent, Sch 1; date of commencement of items (3) (a) and (d)–(f) of those provisions, 31.1.1994, Sch 1 and GG No 27 of 28.1.1994, p 339; item (4) of those provisions was not commenced and was superseded by the amendment made by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994 No 32.
1994	No 32	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994. Assented to 2.6.1994. Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 2 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, assent, Sch 2.
1995	No 11	Statute Law Revision (Local Government) Act 1995. Assented to 9.6.1995. Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, 23.6.1995, sec 2 (1) and GG No 77 of 23.6.1995, p 3279.
1999	No 85	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
2000	No 53	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2000. Assented to 29.6.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 3.8, assent, sec 2 (2).
2001	No 112	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2001. Assented to 14.12.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 1.12, assent, sec 2 (2).
2002	No 83	Surveying Act 2002. Assented to 29.10.2002. Date of commencement, 25.6.2003, sec 2 and GG No 103 of 25.6.2003, p 5903.
2004	No 55	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004. Assented to 6.7.2004. Date of commencement of Sch 1.13, assent, sec 2 (2).
2007	No 94	Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
2009	No 102	Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment (Automatic Enrolment) Act 2009. Assented to 14.12.2009. Date of commencement, 24.9.2010, sec 2 and 2010 (542) LW 24.9.2010.
2010	No 59	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010. Assented to 28.6.2010. Date of commencement of Sch 2.37, 9.7.2010, sec 2 (2).

This Act has also been amended pursuant to orders under secs 8 (2), 9 (3) and 9A of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 21.2.1979, and published in GG No 30 of 23.2.1979, p 834, declaring that the Geographical Names Act 1966 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply. Order dated 21.2.1979 and published in GG No 33 of 2.3.1979, p 953.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Reprints Act 1972.

Sec 2	Am 1987 No 63, Sch 2; 1993 No 108, Sch 1; 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [1]; 2010 No 59, Sch 2.37 [1]; 2009 No 102, Sch 6.1.
Sec 3	Am GG No 33 of 2.3.1979, p 953; 1988 No 131, Sch 10; 1990 No 46, Sch 1; 1993 No 108, Sch 1; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [2]–[7]; 2002 No 83, Sch 2.9; 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [1] [2].
Sec 5	Am 2000 No 53, Sch 3.8; 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [3].
Sec 7A	Ins 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [4].
Sec 9	Am 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [8]–[11].
Sec 10	Am 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [12] [13].
Sec 13	Rep 1993 No 33, Sch 1.
Sec 15	Am 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1994 No 32, Sch 2; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [14] [15]; 2007 No 94, Sch 4.
Sec 18	Am 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [5]; 2010 No 59, Sch 2.37 [2] [3].
Sec 19	Am 1987 No 48, Sch 32.
Sec 20	Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4. Ins 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [16].
The whole Act (except sec 3 (2) (b))	Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (“chairman” omitted wherever occurring, “chairperson” inserted instead).
The whole Act	Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (after “he” wherever occurring, “or she” inserted).
The whole Act (except sec 3 (2) (b), (c) and (d))	Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (after “him” wherever occurring, “or her” inserted).
The whole Act (except sec 3 (3A))	Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (after “his” wherever occurring, “or her” inserted).