Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Liquid Fuel Emergency Act 1984 No. 5 of 1984 - SECT 54

54. (1) This Act, unless sooner repealed, shall cease to be in force at
whichever is the later of-

   (a)  the expiration of the period (in this section referred to as the
''prescribed period'') of 3 years after the date of commencement of this Act;
or

   (b)  if, before the expiration of the prescribed period, a Proclamation
        under sub-section 16 (1) declares that a
        period of national liquid fuel emergency will exist during a period
        expiring after the expiration of the prescribed period-

        (i)    the expiration of that
               period of national liquid fuel emergency; or

        (ii)   if there is a period (in this sub-paragraph referred to as a
''continuous period'') of national liquid fuel emergency that is continuous
with that last-mentioned period-the expiration of the last such continuous
period.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) (b) (ii), a period of national
liquid fuel emergency shall be taken to be continuous with another period of
national liquid fuel emergency if a direction under Part III in force
immediately before the expiration of the first-mentioned period (including a
direction in force by virtue of an application or applications of sub-section
27 (2)) is continued in force, or would, but for any revocation or setting
aside of the direction, be continued in force, by virtue of an application or
applications of sub-section 27 (2), until the expiration of the
second-mentioned period.

(3) For the purposes of section 8 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, when
this Act ceases to be in force by virtue of sub-section (1) of this section,
it shall thereupon be deemed to have been repealed by an Act other than this
Act.