Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Act 2011 (Cth)

Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Act 2011

No. 98, 2011

An Act to amend the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, and for related purposes

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Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Act 2011

No. 98, 2011

An Act to amend the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, and for related purposes

[Assented to 15 September 2011]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Act 2011.

2Commencement

This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Legislative Instruments Act 2003

1. 1

   Subsection 4(1) (at the end of the definition of commencing day)

   Add:

   Note: Section 20 of this Act commenced on 1 January 2005 (see section 2).

2

Paragraph 50(4)(b)

Omit “date of commencement”, substitute “day of commencement”.

Note 1: The following heading to subsection 50(1) is inserted “Principal legislative instruments made before commencing day”.

Note 2: The following heading to subsection 50(2) is inserted “Principal legislative instruments made on or after commencing day”.

Note 3: The following heading to subsection 50(3) is inserted “Partially amending legislative instruments”.

Note 4: The following heading to subsection 50(5) is inserted “Multiple days of commencement”.

3

At the end of section 50

Add:

Legislative instruments with retrospective commencement

1. (7)

   If a day of commencement of a legislative instrument, or of a provision of a legislative instrument, made on or after the commencing day is before the day on which the instrument is registered, this section applies as if a reference to that day of commencement were a reference to the day on which the instrument is registered.

4

Application

The amendments of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 made by items 1, 2 and 3 of this Schedule apply in relation to a legislative instrument that is in force (or a provision of which is in force) on or after the day this Act commences, whether the instrument was made before, on or after that day.

Note: This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent (see section 2).

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 6 July 2011

Senate on 23 August 2011]

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