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STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (No. 1) 1984 No. 72, 1984 - SECT 5

5. (1) Except as provided by section 6, where this Act-

   (a)  amends a provision of an Act; or

   (b)  repeals and re-enacts (with or without modifications) a provision of
        an Act, any act done or decision made under or in pursuance of the
        provision amended or repealed has effect after the amendment or repeal
        as if it had been done or made under or in pursuance of the provision
        as so amended or re-enacted.

(2) Notwithstanding the amendments of sections 133, 273GA and 273H of the
Customs Act 1901 made by this Act and the amendment of that Act inserting
section 273J made by this Act, sections 133, 273GA and 273H of that Act apply
in relation to any application made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
before the day on which those amendments come into operation, or any matter or
thing arising out of, or any proceeding incidental to or connected with, any
such application, as if those amendments had not been made.

(3) Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 4 (2) (d) of the
Defence Service Homes Act 1918 as in force immediately before the commencement
of the amendments of that Act made by this Act shall, after that commencement,
continue in force as if made for the purposes of paragraph 4 (2) (b) of that
Act as so amended.

(4) All instruments made before the commencement of the amendments made by
this Act to the Excise Tariff Act 1921 that purported to be Departmental
By-laws within the meaning of the definition of ''Departmental By-law'' in the
Schedule to that Act as in force before that commencement shall be deemed to
have been Departmental By-laws lawfully made.

(5) Notwithstanding the amendment made by this Act to the Schedule to the
Excise Tariff Act 1921, all Departmental By-laws, within the meaning of the
definition of ''Departmental By-law'' in that Schedule as in force before the
commencement of that amendment, that were in force immediately before that
commencement, continue in force as if they were Departmental By-laws made
under Part XV of the Excise Act 1901 as amended by this Act.

(6) The amendment of section 24 of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
made by this Act applies in relation to judgments given or pronounced before
the date of commencement of the amendment but does not affect the hearing and
determination of an appeal instituted before that date.

(7) Section 105AAA of the National Health Act 1953 as enacted by this Act does
not apply in relation to a decision made before the enactment of that section.