Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978 - SECT 33

33 Documents executed before commencement of Act

(1) All documents executed before the commencement of this Act shall be governed by the enactments, rules of construction and law that would have applied to them if this Act had not been passed.

(2) Where a document to which subsection (1) applies creates a special power of appointment, nothing in this Act shall extend the class of persons in whose favour the appointment may be made or cause the exercise of the power to be construed so as to include any person who is not a member of that class.