Queensland Numbered Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 8 - SECT 5

Part 6--

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'(1) It is declared that--

(a) if, for any period before the commencement day, the regulation stated that a regional ecosystem was an endangered regional ecosystem for the definition endangered regional ecosystem in this Act, the regional ecosystem was an endangered regional ecosystem for the period; and

(b) if, for any period before the commencement day, the regulation stated that a regional ecosystem was a not of concern regional ecosystem for the definition not of concern regional ecosystem in this Act, the regional ecosystem was a not of concern regional ecosystem for the period; and

(c) if, for any period before the commencement day, the regulation stated that a regional ecosystem was an of concern regional ecosystem for the definition of concern regional ecosystem in this Act, the regional ecosystem was an of concern regional ecosystem for the period.

'(2) Subsection (1) applies despite any provision of the Act in force before the commencement day including the definitions endangered regional ecosystem, not of concern regional ecosystem and of concern regional ecosystem.

'(3) Subsection (1) applies for all purposes, including a civil or criminal proceeding decided before, or started before or after, the commencement day.

'(4) In this section--

commencement day means the day this section commences.

regulation means the Vegetation Management Regulation 2000.

'The amendment of the Vegetation Management Regulation 2000 by the Vegetation Management Amendment Act 2008 does not affect the power of the Governor in Council to further amend the regulation or to repeal it.'.