Queensland Consolidated Acts

CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 2010 - SECT 295

295 Proceedings for repealed integrity offences

(1) This section applies in relation to an offence against a repealed integrity offence provision committed by a person before the commencement.

(2) Without limiting the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 20, a proceeding for the offence may be continued or started, and the person may be convicted of and punished for the offence, as if the Electoral and Other Legislation (Accountability, Integrity and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2020 , sections 80 and 81 had not commenced.

(3) From the commencement, an offence against a repealed integrity offence provision continues, despite the repeal of the provision, to be—

(a) an integrity offence for section 153(5); and

(b) a disqualifying offence for section 153(6).

(4) In this section—

"repealed integrity offence provision" means the following provisions as in force from time to time before the commencement—

(a) section 173A(2) and (3);

(b) section 173B(2);

(c) section 177C(2);

(d) section 177E(2) and (5);

(e) section 177H;

(f) section 177I(2) and (3).