Queensland Numbered Acts

MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2020 - SECT 16

16 Insertion of new s 321

After section 320 , as inserted by this Act—
insert —

321 Validation of particular orders for costs

(1) This section applies to a costs order purportedly made by an Industrial Magistrates Court before the commencement in relation to a proceeding for an offence against this Act.

(2) The making of the costs order is, and is taken to always have been, as valid as it would have been if amended section 264 had been in effect from 16 March 2001.

(3) Anything done under the costs order is, and is taken to always have been, as valid as it would have been if amended section 264 had been in effect from 16 March 2001.

(4) If the repealed Industrial Relations Act 1999 applied to the proceeding, amended section 264 applies as if the reference in section 264(3) to the Industrial Relations Act 2016 , section 530(6) were a reference to section 319(3) of the repealed Act.

(5) In this section—

"amended section 264" means section 264 as amended by the Mineral and Energy Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2020 .

"costs order" means an order awarding a represented party for a proceeding costs of the representation.

"Industrial Magistrates Court" includes an Industrial Magistrates Court under the repealed Industrial Relations Act 1999 .

"represented party" , for a proceeding, means a party to the proceeding, or a person ordered or permitted to appear or to be represented by a lawyer, who is represented by a lawyer.