Queensland Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH PLACES (ADMINISTRATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 14

14 Savings

(1) Where, upon a place becoming or having become a Commonwealth place, a law of a State ceases or ceased to have effect in or in relation to that place—

(a) the previous operation of that law or anything duly done or suffered under that law is not affected; and

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under that law is not affected; and

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of an offence committed against that law is not affected; and

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) is not affected; and

(e) any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if the law had not so ceased to have effect.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) , when a place ceases or has ceased to be a Commonwealth place at a particular time the laws of the State in force at that particular time apply in or in relation to that place as if those laws had come into operation at that particular time and every Act, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, and every instrument made or having effect under any such Act, shall be read and construed as if it provided expressly that it was intended to so apply.

(3) When a place ceases or has ceased to be a Commonwealth place at a particular time all persons things and circumstances appointed or created by or under the applied provisions in or in relation to that place or existing or continuing under the applied provisions in or in relation to that place immediately before the applied provisions cease or ceased to have effect in or in relation to that place by reason of that place ceasing or having ceased to be a Commonwealth place shall under and subject to the law of the State continue or shall be deemed to have continued to have the same status operation and effect as they respectively would have had if they had been appointed or created or existed or continued under the law of the State.