Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LONG SERVICE LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) ACT 1976 No. 192, 1976 - SECT 3

3. (1) The following Acts are repealed:-

Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1943
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1944
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1951
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1953
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1958
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1959
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1967
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1968
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act (No. 2) 1968
Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1973.

(2) The repeal of the Acts specified in sub-section (1) does not affect a
grant, under those Acts, before the commencement of this Act, of leave of
absence for a period commencing after, or extending after, the commencement of
this Act, and this Act applies to and in relation to any leave of absence so
granted that occurs after the commencement of this Act as if it had been
granted under this Act.

(3) The repeal of the Acts specified in sub-section (1) does not prevent-

   (a)  the giving, under those Acts, of a direction that the death of a
        person is to be presumed to have occurred on a date before the
        commencement of this Act; or

   (b)  the making, under those Acts, of any payment that could have been made
        if the direction had been given before the commencement of this Act.

(4) Where it was provided by an Act in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act that a body was an authority of the Commonwealth for
the purposes of the Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1943, that body is a
public authority of the Commonwealth for the purposes of this Act.

(5) Regulations made under the Acts repealed by sub-section (1) and in force
immediately before the commencement of this Act continue in force for the
purposes of this Act as if they had been made under this Act, but may be
repealed or amended by regulations made under this Act.