Transport Administration Amendment (Light Rail) Act 1996 Proclamation re commencement (1999-449) [GG No 98 of 27.8.1999, p 6689] (NSW)

1999 No 449

Transport Administration Amendment New South Wales

(Light Rail) Act 1996 No 128—

Proclamation

JAMES JACOB SPIGELMAN,
by deputation from His Excellency the 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 the
Transport Administration Amendment (Light Rail) Act 1996, do, by this my

Proclamation, appoint 1 September 1999 as the day on which Schedule 1 [9] to that

Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 25th day of August 1999.

By His Excellency's Command,

CARL SCULLY, M.P.,

Minister for Transport

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

Section 70 of the Transport Administration Act 1988, in providing for the payment into the State Rail Authority Fund of penalties recovered for certain offences relating to railways, refers to the provisions creating the offences. Some of the offences were created by section 97 of the Transport Administration Act 1988. However, that section is repealed, concurrently with this commencement,

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by Schedule 2.21 to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997. The relevant section 97 offences are now created by section 79A of the Rail Safety Act 1993 (which was inserted in that Act by Schedule 2.3 [3] to the Transport Administration Amendment (Light Rail) Act 1996).

The object of this proclamation is to commence the provision of the Transport Administration

Amendment (Light Rail) Act 1996 that amends the relevant cross-reference in section 70.

BY AUTHORITY

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