2010-2011
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Legislative Instruments Amendment
(Sunsetting) Bill 2011
No. , 2011
(Attorney-General)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Legislative
Instruments Act 2003, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Legislative Instruments Act 2003
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Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Bill 2011 No. , 2011 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Legislative
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Instruments Act 2003, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Legislative Instruments Amendment
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(Sunsetting) Act 2011.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal
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Assent.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Legislative Instruments Act 2003
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1 Subsection 4(1) (at the end of the definition of commencing
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day)
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Add:
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Note:
Section 20 of this Act commenced on 1 January 2005 (see section 2).
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2 Paragraph 50(4)(b)
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Omit "date of commencement", substitute "day of commencement".
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Note 1: The following heading to subsection 50(1) is inserted "Principal legislative instruments
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made before commencing day".
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Note 2: The following heading to subsection 50(2) is inserted "Principal legislative instruments
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made on or after commencing day".
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Note 3: The following heading to subsection 50(3) is inserted "Partially amending legislative
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instruments".
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Note 4: The following heading to subsection 50(5) is inserted "Multiple days of
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commencement".
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3 At the end of section 50
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Add:
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Legislative instruments with retrospective commencement
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(7) If a day of commencement of a legislative instrument, or of a
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provision of a legislative instrument, made on or after the
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commencing day is before the day on which the instrument is
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registered, this section applies as if a reference to that day of
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commencement were a reference to the day on which the
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instrument is registered.
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4 Application
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The amendments of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 made by
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items 1, 2 and 3 of this Schedule apply in relation to a legislative
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instrument that is in force (or a provision of which is in force) on or
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after the day this Act commences, whether the instrument was made
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before, on or after that day.
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Note:
This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent (see section 2).
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