Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 333

333 Proceedings for repealed integrity offences

(1) This section applies in relation to an offence against a repealed integrity offence provision committed by a person before the commencement.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 112 and 113 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(3) From the commencement, an offence against a repealed integrity offence provision continues, despite the repeal of the provision, to be—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"repealed integrity offence provision" means the following provisions as in force from time to time before the commencement—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 171A(2) and (3);

(b) section 171B(2);

(c) section 175C(2);

(d) section 175E(2) and (5);

(e) section 175H;

(f) section 175I(2) and (3).