Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Act 2011

No. 98, 2011

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

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendments

Legislative Instruments Act 2003

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:

1  Short title

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

2  Commencement

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

3  Schedule(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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Legislative Instruments Act 2003

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

 (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]