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STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (No. 1) 1984 No. 72, 1984 - SECT 6

6. (1) Notwithstanding the amendments made by this Act, Part V of the
Principal Act continues to operate in relation to a decision made by an
authorized person before the commencing day if a request for the
reconsideration of the decision was made under section 22 of the Principal Act
before the commencing day.

(2) Part V of the Student Assistance Act 1973 as amended by this Act applies
in relation to-

   (a)  a decision made by an authorized person before the commencing day, if
        a request for the reconsideration of the decision had not been made
        before the commencing day; and

   (b)  a decision made by an authorized person on or after the commencing
        day.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to have affected the appointment, as an
authorized person under section 6 of the Principal Act, of a person who,
immediately before the commencing day, was an officer or employee within the
meaning of the Public Service Act 1922.

(4) Where, immediately before the commencing day, a person held an office of
Chairman of a Tribunal-

   (a)  that person shall, on and after the commencing day, hold the office of
        Chairperson of that Tribunal on the same terms and conditions as the
        person held that office of Chairman; and

   (b)  the period of appointment of the person as Chairperson of the Tribunal
        shall, subject to the Student Assistance Act 1973, expire on the day
        on which the period of appointment of the person as Chairman would
        have expired.

(5) Any act done or decision made, before the commencing day, by a person in
the capacity of Chairman of a Tribunal shall, for the purposes of the
Student Assistance Act 1973, be taken to have been done or made by the
Chairperson of the Tribunal.

(6) In this section-

''commencing day'' means the day on which the amendments made by this Act to
the Student Assistance Act 1973 come into operation;

''Principal Act'' means the Student Assistance Act 1973 as amended and in
force immediately before the commencing day.

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