Queensland Numbered Acts

TRANSPORT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 31 - SECT 10

Part 5, after section 15--

insert--

'(1) The change of name of MSQ from 'Maritime Safety Agency of Queensland' to 'Maritime Safety Queensland' does not--

(a) affect MSQ's legal personality or identity; or

(b) affect a right, entitlement or liability of MSQ or anyone else; or

(c) make legal proceedings by or against MSQ defective.

'(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the change of name of MSQ does not affect any right, entitlement, liability or benefit MSQ would have had or enjoyed apart from the change of name.

'(3) In addition, but without limiting subsection (1), a legal proceeding that could have been started or continued by or against MSQ under its former name may be started or continued by or against it under its new name.

'A reference in an Act or document to the Maritime Safety Agency of Queensland may, if the context permits, be taken as a reference to Maritime Safety Queensland.

'(1) The registrar of titles or other person responsible for keeping a register for dealings in property must, if asked by MSQ in the appropriate form, and on payment of any fee, record in the register, for any property vested in MSQ, the change of name of MSQ from 'Maritime Safety Agency of Queensland' to 'Maritime Safety Queensland'.

'(2) In this section--

registrar of titles means a public official or authority responsible for registering title to land and dealings affecting land.'.