Interpretation Act Amendment Act 1975 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

INTERPRETATION.

No. 105 of 1975.

AN ACT to amend the Interpretation Act, 1918-1974.

[Assented to 1st December, 1975.1

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Interpretation	Short title
and

Act Amendment Act, 1975.	citation.
Approved

(2) In this Act the Interpretation Act, 1918-1974 for reprint 15th May,

is referred to as the principal Act.	1974 and amended by Act
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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may of 1974.

be cited as the Interpretation Act, 1918-1975.

No. 105.] Interpretation. [1975.

Section it

repeated	2. Section 11 of the principal Act is repealed and
and

re-enacted.	re-enacted as follows-
Exercise of

statutory	11. (1) Where an Act is not to come into
power

between	operation immediately on the passing thereof,
passing and
coming	and confers power or will, upon its coming into
into
operation	operation, amend another Act so as to confer
of an Act
or any	power under the other Act as so amended, to
provision
thereof.	make any appointment, to hold any election, to make, grant or issue any instrument that is to say any proclamation, Order in Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent, rules, regulations, or by-laws, to give notices, to prescribe forms, or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Act, the power that is or will be conferred may, unless the Act otherwise provides, be exercised at any time after the passing of the first-mentioned Act but the exercise of the power does not confer a right or impose an obligation upon a person before the coming into operation of the first-mentioned Act except in so far as is necessary or expedient for the purpose of making the first-mentioned Act fully effective upon its coming into operation or the other Act fully effective when so amended.
(2) A power purporting to have been exercised at a time before the date of the coming into operation of the Interpretation Act Amendment Act, 1975 for the purposes of an Act that came into operation before that date, shall be deemed to have been exercised as validly and effectually as it would have been if this section as re-enacted by the Interpretation Act Amend- ment Act, 1975 had been in operation at that time.
(3) In this section a reference to an Act includes a reference to a provision or provisions of an Act. .