Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1954 - SECT 20A

20A Repeal does not end saving, transitional or validating effect etc.

(1) In this section—

"Act" includes a provision of an Act.

"repeal" includes expiry.

(2) If an Act—

(a) declares a thing for a saving or transitional purpose (whether or not the Act is expressed to be made for a purpose of that type); or

(b) validates a thing that may otherwise be invalid; or

(c) declares a thing for a purpose that is consequential on a declaration mentioned in paragraph (a) or a validation mentioned in paragraph (b) (whether or not the Act is expressed to be made for a purpose of that type);

the declaratory or validating effect of the Act does not end merely because of the repeal of the Act .

Example of paragraph (a)—

a provision stating that an existing licence under a repealed law is taken to be a licence of a particular kind under another law and authorising the imposition of conditions under the other law

Example of paragraph (b)—

a provision declaring an instrument to have been validly made and acts done in reliance on the instrument to have been validly done

Examples of paragraph (c)—

1 a provision stating that a matter that is declared valid is not justiciable

2 a provision stating that an instrument that is declared valid is taken to have been amended in a particular way

(3) If an Act (the
"savings law" ) declares an Act (the
"declared law" ) to be a law to which this section applies—

(a) the effect of the declared law does not end merely because of its repeal; and

(b) the effect of the savings law does not end merely because of its repeal.

(4) A declaration may be made for subsection (3) about an Act whether or not the Act is a law to which subsection (2) applies.

(5) A declaration made for subsection (3) about an Act does not imply that, in the absence of a declaration about it, another Act is not a law to which this section applies.

(6) This section is in addition to, and does not limit, sections 19 and 20 , or any provision of the law by which the repeal is made.