Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 Proclamation re commencement (1996-632) [GG No 150 of 20.12.1996] (NSW)

1996 No 632

New South Wales

STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1995

No 16—PROCLAMTION

(L.S.) G. SAMUELS, Governor.

I, the Honourable Gordon Samuels AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of, and Schedule 1.2 to, the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 20 December 1996 as the day on which Schedule 1.2 to that Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 18th day of December 1996.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JEFFREY SHAW, QC., M.L.C.,

Attorney General.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Proclamation is to commence the provisions of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 that amend section 18 of the Arbitration (Civil Actions) Act 1983.

The amendments ensure that a person aggrieved by an award of an arbitrator under that Act may obtain a rehearing of the action concerned even if a previous applicant for a rehearing files a notice of discontinuance of the rehearing or fails to attend the rehearing. (The Act currently provides that, in those circumstances, the order for the rehearing ceases to have effect and the award is deemed to be a judgment or order of the court.)

Published in Gazette No 150 of 20 December 1996, page 8530