Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If an authority under a former Act of a class prescribed by the Regulations for this section is in force immediately before commencement, on commencement the authority becomes an authorisation under this Act of the kind specified in the Regulations.
(2) Regulations prescribing a class of authorities for this section:
(a) must specify the kind of authorisation under this Act that authorities of that class are to become; and
(b) may prescribe conditions to which the authorisations are to be subject.
(3) The Regulations allow for an application for the grant or renewal of the authority that was made before commencement but, as at commencement, had not been determined, to be considered and determined under the former Act as if that Act had not been repealed.
(4) If the Regulations provide as mentioned in subsection (3) and an authority is granted or renewed under the former Act as so continued, subsection (1) applies to the authority at the date of grant or renewal.
(5) In this section:
"authority" means a licence, permit, registration or other form of authority, however described.
"former Act" means:
(a) the old WHS Act; or
(b) the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 , as in force from time to time before commencement.