Bills of Sale Amendment Act 1986 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

BILLS OF SALE AMENDMENT ACT

No. 20 of 1986

AN ACT to amend the Bills of Sale Act 1899.

[Assented to 25 July 1986.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Bills of Sale Amendment Act 1986.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

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Principal Act

3.     In this Act the Bills of Sale Act 1899* is referred to as the principal

Act.

[*Reprinted as approved 7 April 1971 and amended by Acts Nos. 32 of 1971, 94 of 1972 (as amended by 19 of 1973), 74 of 1981, 10 of 1982, 49 of 1983 and 11 and 102 of 1984.]

Sections 17B to 17Q repealed

4.     Sections 17B to 17Q of the principal Act are repealed.

Sixth Schedule, Seventh Schedule, Eighth Schedule and Ninth

Schedule repealed

5.    The Sixth Schedule, Seventh Schedule, Eighth Schedule and

Ninth Schedule to the principal Act are repealed.

Transitional provision

6.     (1) Without limiting the operation of the Interpretation Act 1984,

where immediately before the coming into operation of this Act a notice of intention to register a bill of sale has been lodged under section 17B of the principal Act as in force before the coming into operation of this Act, and the bill of sale the subject of that notice of intention has not been registered under Part II of the principal Act at the time when this Act comes into operation, that bill of sale shall be dealt with in all respects as if this Act had not been enacted.

(2) In subsection (1) "bill of sale" has the meaning given to that term in

section 17A of the principal Act.