Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment (Repeal of Norfolk Island Provisions) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment (Repeal of Norfolk Island Provisions) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 29 March 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment (Repeal of Norfolk Island Provisions) Regulations 2018.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The day after this instrument is registered.	11 April 2018
2. Schedule 1	The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day Schedule 2 to the Investigation and Prosecution Measures Act 2018commences. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.	23 May 2018 (paragraph (b) applies)

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Director of Public Prosecutions Regulations 1984

1

Part 1 (heading)

Repeal the heading.

2

Regulation 2

Repeal the following definitions:

1. (a)

   the definition of continued Norfolk Island law;

(b) the definition of Norfolk Island authority.

3

Part 2 (heading)

Repeal the heading.

4

Subregulation 3(1)

Omit “other functions of the Director are”, substitute “the other functions of the Director are”.

5

Parts 3 and 4

Repeal the Parts.