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Interpretation of Legislation (Amendment) Act

1997

Act No. 6/1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Purpose	1
2.	Commencement	1
3.	New section 39B inserted	2

39B. Numbering consequential on insertion of new provisions 2

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NOTES 4

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Victoria

No. 6 of 1997

Interpretation of Legislation

(Amendment) Act 1997†

[Assented to 22 April 1997]

The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:

1. Purpose

The purpose of this Act is to amend the

Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation of Legislation (Amendment) Act 1997

Act No. 6/1997 s. 3

3. New section 39B inserted No. 10096.
Reprinted to

After section 39A of the Interpretation of	No. 119/1993. Subsequently
Legislation Act 1984 insert—	amended by Nos 18/1994,
"39B. Numbering consequential on insertion of	104/1994,

new provisions	108/1994, 109/1994,
(1) If a section that is not divided into	41/1995 and
100/1995.

sub-sections is amended by the insertion of
one or more sub-sections at the end of it, the
section as in force immediately before the
commencement of the amendment must be
taken to be sub-section (1) of that section
and to be amended, by force of the amending
provision, by the insertion of the expression

"(1)" at the beginning of it.

(2) If a statutory rule containing regulations or

rules includes a regulation or rule that is not divided into sub-regulations or sub-rules and that regulation or rule is amended by the
insertion at the end of it of one or more
sub-regulations or sub-rules, the regulation
or rule as in force immediately before the
commencement of the amendment must be
taken to be sub-regulation (1) of that
regulation or sub-rule (1) of that rule (as the
case requires) and to be amended, by force
of the amending provision, by the insertion

of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of it.

(3) If a clause of a Schedule to an Act or
statutory rule that is not divided into
sub-clauses is amended by the insertion of
one or more sub-clauses at the end of it, the
clause as in force immediately before the
commencement of the amendment must be
taken to be sub-clause (1) of that clause and
to be amended, by force of the amending

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provision, by the insertion of the expression

"(1)" at the beginning of it.

(4) This section applies only to amendments
made by an Act passed, or statutory rule
made, on or after the commencement of the
Interpretation of Legislation

(Amendment) Act 1997.".

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Act No. 6/1997 Notes

NOTES

†

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 16 May 1996

Legislative Council: 2 April 1997

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Interpretation
of Legislation Act 1984 and for other purposes."