Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1954 - SECT 20B

20B Continuance of appointments etc. made under amended provisions

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a provision of a law expressly or impliedly authorises or requires—

(i) the making of an appointment; or

(ii) the delegation of a function or power; or

(iii) the doing of anything else (other than the making of a statutory instrument); and

(b) the provision is amended by an Act; and

(c) under the amended provision—

(i) the appointment may be made; or

(ii) the function or power may be delegated; or

(iii) the thing may be done.

(2) An appointment, delegation or other thing mentioned in subsection (1) that was in force immediately before the commencement of the amendment continues to have effect after the commencement as if it had been done under the amended provision.

(3) In this section—

"amend" includes omit and re-enact in the same law (with or without modification), but does not include omit and re-enact in another law.