Trade Measurement (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1998 (Vic)

Trade Measurement (Administration)

(Amendment) Act 1998

Act No. 58/1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Purpose	1
2.	Power to serve infringement notice	1
3.	Validation provision	2

28. Validation of regulations and actions 2

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Victoria

No. 58 of 1998

Trade Measurement (Administration)

(Amendment) Act 1998†

[Assented to 13 October 1998]

The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:

1. Purpose1

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Trade Measurement (Administration) Act 1995 to clarify the offences which may be prescribed by regulations for the purpose of enabling infringement notices to be served.

2. Power to serve infringement notice
Trade Measurement (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1998

Act No. 58/1998

In section 18(1) of the Trade Measurement
(Administration) Act 1995 after "Trade
Measurement Act 1995" insert "or against any
regulation made under the Trade Measurement
Act 1995 or the Trade Measurement

(Administration) Act 1995".

3. Validation provision

For section 28 of the Trade Measurement
(Administration) Act 1995 substitute—
"28. Validation of regulations and actions

(1) The Trade Measurement Regulations 1995, Statutory Rule No. 194/1995, are deemed to be as valid as if the Regulations had been

made under the Trade Measurement Act
1995 and the Trade Measurement
(Administration) Act 1995 as amended by
the Trade Measurement (Administration)

(Amendment) Act 1998.

(2) Without limiting the generality of sub-

section (1), anything done or purported to be
done under the Trade Measurement
Regulations 1995 before the commencement
of the Trade Measurement
(Administration) (Amendment) Act 1998
that would have been validly done had that
Act been in operation at the time at which
the thing was done or purported to have been
done, has and is deemed always to have had,
the same force and effect as it would have
had if that Act had been in operation at the
time at which the thing was done or

purported to have been done.".

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Trade Measurement (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1998

Notes Act No. 58/1998

NOTES

†

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Council: 7 October 1998

Legislative Assembly: 7 October 1998

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Trade

Measurement (Administration) Act 1995 and for other purposes."

1 This Act comes into operation at the beginning of the 28th day after the day

on which it receives the Royal Assent (Interpretation of Legislation Act
1984 s. 11(1)(b)).