Commencement Proclamation (2019-634) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Fair Trading Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2018 No 65

MARGARET BEAZLEY, Governor

I, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2(2) of the Fair Trading Legislation

Amendment (Reform) Act 2018, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 February 2020 as the day

on which the following provisions of that Act commence—

(a)	Schedules 3, 4.3 and 8,
(b)	the uncommenced provisions of Schedule 4.4.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 18th day of December 2019.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

KEVIN ANDERSON, MP

Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence certain provisions of the Fair Trading Legislation

Amendment (Reform) Act 2018 that—

(a) make amendments to the Conveyancers Licensing Act 2003, Home Building Act 1989, Pawnbrokers

and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996, Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 and Retirement Villages Act 1999 primarily relating to the eligibility of businesses in external administration to hold

certain licences under those Acts, and

(b) amend the Motor Dealers and Repairers Act 2013 and Motor Dealers and Repairers Regulation

2014 in relation to specialised authorities (being a type of tradesperson’s certificate) and notification

and other requirements relating to the premises at which a licence holder carries on a business authorised by the licence, and
(c)	provide for forms that are authorised or required under certain Acts to be given in the form approved by the relevant Secretary instead of prescribed by regulations under those Acts.

Published LW 20 December 2019 (2019 No 634)