(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts--this Act
(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.
(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as--(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.
(1) A licence issued under the repealed Act that was in force immediately before the commencement of section 7 of this Act is taken to have been issued under this Act for a period of 60 days after that date of commencement unless the licence is sooner suspended or cancelled as a result of--(a) proceedings pending under the repealed Act at the commencement of this clause, or(b) action under this Act.
(2) Such a licence is subject to any limitations and conditions that were imposed on it under the repealed Act and any further conditions that the Commissioner may attach under section 14 of this Act.
(3) In this clause,
"repealed Act" means the Wool, Hide and Skin Dealers Act 1935 .
Part 5 of this Act extends to a licensee who holds a licence that is taken to have been issued under this Act by clause 2. For the purposes of the application of that Part, the Commissioner may have regard to conduct or events that occurred before the commencement of that Part in determining whether the licensee is entitled to be issued with a licence or is otherwise subject to Part 5.