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ACT and retains
Although the ACT has its own Chief Minister and its own legislature ( the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly ), the Federal Parliament retains the right to overrule ACT legislation.

ACT and small
The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.
Interestingly, this ACT exclave surrounds a small exclave of NSW territory, namely the Point Perpendicular lighthouse which is at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula.
In the ACT a civil penalty system for possession of small amounts of cannabis was introduced in 1993.
The Supreme Court Act 2003 passed its third reading by a relatively small margin – the governing Labour and Progressive parties, supported by the Greens, voted in favour, while the National, New Zealand First, ACT New Zealand, and United Future parties voted against.
The V200 is easily mistaken for a PDA or a small computer because of its massive enclosure and its full QWERTY keyboard — a feature which disqualifies the calculator for use in many tests and examinations, including the American ACT and SAT.
The set-off was only partial, since the company would pay 52 % tax ( small companies had lower rates, but still higher than the ACT rate ), and thus the £ 70 received by the individual actually represented pre-tax profits of £ 145. 83.
) Surprisingly, second place was won by Owen Jennings of the ACT party, a small party that promotes economic deregulation and other laissez-faire economic policies.
They set out full policies in many areas, as opposed to several of the other small parties in the ACT at the time, and attempted to build themselves into a political force.
The ACT has a small number of vocal statehood supporters, who believe the ACT, with a population only slightly less than that of Tasmania, is under-represented in the Australian Parliament.
The proairetic ( ACT ) code organises ( small ) intertwined sequences of behaviors.
Consequently a small group of parents with children at the age of transfer from primary to secondary school decided to take the initiative with the support of ACT.
Hall is a small town in the north of the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ), Australia.

ACT and area
The ACT's land on the Beecroft Peninsula is an " exclave ", that is, an area of territory not physically connected to the main part of the ACT.
In April 2001 representatives of the Ngambri communities entered into an agreement with the ACT government which recognised their traditional association with the park's lands and their role and duty to their ancestors and descendants as custodians of the area, and established a system of cooperative management.
ACT New Zealand MP Stephen Franks was critical of the remarks, stating " I don't think she was regarded as one of the most weighty judges and she's putting herself into a difficult constitutional position by weighing in in this area ", as was the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
In that same year, the ACT became an alcohol-free area as a result of legislation that the Minister for Home Affairs, King O ' Malley, steered through the Federal Parliament in Melbourne.
Robert Campbell's property Duntroon was situated on the limestone plains of New South Wales in the area that is now covered by the ACT.
With the release of the Canberra Spatial Plan by the ACT Government, the area and the adjoining Majura Valley has been denoted as an employment corridor centred on Canberra Airport and Fyshwick.
In her one term in the Legislative Assembly, she was a strong advocate for environmental causes, both inside the ACT, such as the preservation of the Black Mountain area ( which had been threatened by the Gungahlin Drive Extension ), and outside, such as her attempts to save Tasmania's environmentally sensitive Tarkine wilderness area from logging and development.
This area includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ( ACT ), Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy ( CBASP ) ( McCullough, 2000 ), behavioural activation ( BA ), Kohlenberg & Tsai's Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, integrative behavioural couples therapy and dialectical behavioural therapy.
The development was undertaken by the ACT Land Development Agency-this estate was initially promoted as ' Brindabellas ', but that label was quietly dropped and the area is now simply part of Bonython.
The ACT government has selected developers for the area as Defence Housing Australia and Canberra Investment Corporation.

ACT and territory
The ACT has internal self-government, but Australia's Constitution does not afford the territory government the full legislative independence provided to Australian states.
In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).
The lighthouse and its grounds are New South Wales territory, but cut off from the rest of the state by the strip of ACT land.
To do so, the ALP would have to win Field's and Bunton's seats, and one seat in each territory, and have the second ACT seat fall to either a Labor candidate or an independent, former Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton, now estranged from his party.
However, the ACT government takes on the responsibilities of a local government, and Canberra is the only sizeable community in the territory.
* Australia – Australia, with the exception of its capital territory ( ACT ) and the Northern Territory, does not permit the use of fireworks, except by a licensed pyrotechnician.
Upon ACT Self-Government it became a separate territory located on the Australian mainland ; for the most part it is populated with Defence Force personnel.
This was the first of only two occasions on which a Senate casual vacancy was filled in this manner, as the law was later changed to provide for a replacement senator to be appointed by the relevant territory ( ACT or NT ) legislative assembly.
* Germany and the Australian states and territory of New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) have semi-fixed terms in that dissolution at any time in mid-term is allowed only to resolve a serious deadlock.
The ACT ’ s Minister for Industrial Relations John Hargreaves announced in August 2009 that the territory ’ s Family and Community Day would move to a different date from 2010 onwards.
Despite the outcome of the referendum, the Parliament of Australia passed the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act in 1988 and the ACT became a self-governing territory in 1989.
Furthermore, the wording of s. 125 of the Australian Constitution suggests that the ACT must remain a territory and cannot become a state.
At the centre of the hill is a flagpole flying the ACT flag since 1989 when the territory became self-governing.
State and territory regulations exist for Out of School Hours Services in Qld, ACT, WA and Tas.

ACT and on
The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.
All land in the ACT is held on 99 year leases from the national government, although most leases are now administered by the Territory government.
In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.
This coupled with voucher schools not being required to put their students through the same tests and performing poorly on SAT and ACT testing in the 11th and 12th grades has led the academic community to declare it a complete and total failure.
To qualify for acceptance to the program, students must have a recalculated GPA of 3. 5 or higher ( on a 4. 0 scale ), an ACT score of 27 or above and submit two letters of recommendation.
This allows the user to update contact, schedule, or other information on their computer, using software such as Microsoft Outlook or ACT !, and have that same data transferred to PDA — or transfer updated information from the PDA back to the computer.
# Scores on the ACT Assessment plus Writing or SAT Reasoning Test, and two SAT Subject Tests.
Canberra Day is a public holiday observed in the ACT on the second Monday in March to celebrate the founding of Canberra.
The TI-89 is not permitted on the ACT or the National Fundamentals of Engineering exam, although it is permitted on the SAT examinations.
However, the calculator is banned from use on the ACT, the PLAN, and in some classrooms.
CAS-equipped calculators are not permitted on the ACT, the PLAN, and in some classrooms because they may affect the integrity of the test / class ,< ref >
On August 24, 2009 the ACT Government announced a complete ban on backyard fireworks.
The following is based on official ACT ACT-SAT concordance chart ACT percentiles are calculated on the basis of the percent of test takers scoring the same score or a lower one, not ( as is the case for many other assessments ) only the percent scoring lower.
In mid 2012 Advance Call Center Technologies ( ACT ) leased a 87, 000 square foot building on Watt Avenue.
Barrington High School reported that in 2011 its students scored a composite average of 25 on the ACT college entrance exam, which is the highest average in the school's history and roughly four points higher than the state and national averages.
The district is known for its high student achievement with students consistently performing above the national average on the ACT.
ACT scores are above both the state and national averages, and over three quarters of students go on to attend college, which is far above the state average of 40 % although both are the lowest among the four high schools within the county.

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