Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 37, 1982 - SECT 46

46. (1) Any act or thing done at any time before the commencement of this
sub-section by a person who, at that time, held office as the Director-General
of Social Services, a Deputy Director-General of Social Services, an Assistant
Director-General of Social Services, a Director of Social Services or a
Registrar of Social Services, being an act or thing done in pursuance of his
duties as the holder of that office, shall have such consequences or effects
after the commencement of this sub-section as it would have had if the
amendments made by sections 6 to 11, inclusive, had not been made, but any
power or function conferred by the Principal Act as amended by this Act may be
exercised or performed after the commencement of this sub-section in relation
to that act or thing as if that act or thing had been done by the
Director-General of Social Security, a Deputy Director-General of Social
Security, an Assistant Director-General of Social Security, a Director of
Social Security or a Registrar of Social Security, as the case may be.

(2) A reference in any Act, or in any instrument (including rules, regulations
and by-laws) made, granted or issued pursuant to any Act, to a person holding
a specified office in the Department of Social Security, being
a reference that includes the words ''Social Services'', shall, in relation to
any act or thing done or to be done after the commencement of this
sub-section, be read as if those words were omitted and the words ''Social
Security'' were substituted.

(3) Where, immediately before the commencement of this sub-section, there were
pending in a court or tribunal any proceedings to which a person holding an
office in the Department of Social Security was, in his capacity as the holder
of that office, a party, being an office the description of which for
the purposes of those proceedings included the words ''Social Services'',
those proceedings may be continued after the commencement of this sub-section
as if the description of that office for the purposes of those proceedings
were amended by omitting those words and substituting the words ''Social
Security''.

(4) A person who, immediately before the commencement of this sub-section, was
entitled to be paid child endowment under Part VI of the Principal Act in
respect of a child is, subject to the provisions of the Principal Act as
amended by this Act, entitled to be paid family allowance in respect of that
child under Part VI of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

(5) Where, before the commencement of this sub-section-

   (a)  a person had made a claim for child endowment under Part VI of the
        Principal Act, a claim for a double orphan's pension under Part VIA of
        that Act or a claim for handicapped child's allowance under Part VIB
        of that Act; and

   (b)  the claim had not been granted or the claim had been refused,
the Principal Act as amended by this Act applies in relation to the claim as
if the amendments made by sections 12 to 17, inclusive, 19 to 37, inclusive
and 39 and 40 had been in force at the time when the claim was made.

(6) A reference in any Act or in any instrument (including rules, regulations
and by-laws) made, granted or issued under any Act to child endowment, being
child endowment paid or payable under Part VI of the Principal Act shall,
after the commencement of this sub-section, be read as a reference to
family allowance under Part VI of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.
PART III-AMENDMENTS OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1979