2016

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016

No.      , 2016

(Employment)

A Bill for an Act to repeal the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012, and for related purposes

Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Repeal of the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012           3

Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012                                                                       3

Schedule 2—Transitional provisions                                                                          4

Schedule 3—Consequential amendments                                                                5

Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977                                         5

A Bill for an Act to repeal the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Act 2016.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Repeal of the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012

Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012

1  The whole of the Act

Repeal the Act.

Schedule 2—Transitional provisions

1  Rules about transitional matters

(1)       The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to:

                     (a)  the repeals or amendments made by this Act; or

                     (b)  the enactment of this Act.

(2)       The rules may provide that they apply despite subsection 7(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

(3)       To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:

                     (a)  create an offence or civil penalty;

                     (b)  provide powers of:

                              (i)  arrest or detention; or

                             (ii)  entry, search or seizure;

                     (c)  impose a tax;

                     (d)  set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act;

                     (e)  directly amend the text of this Act.

Schedule 3—Consequential amendments

Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

1  Paragraph (a) of Schedule 1

Omit “the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012,”.