Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Legislative Instruments Act 2003 3
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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]