(1) Subject to
subsection (2), an amendment to the principal Act effected by a provision of
this Act applies in relation to an application under the principal Act, or
review or appeal proceedings relating to an application under
the principal Act, if the application or proceedings are determined after the
commencement of that provision (whether the application was lodged before or
after that commencement).
(2) Part 5 of
the principal Act, as substituted by section 6 of this Act, only applies in
relation to determinations made on applications lodged under Parts 3 and 4 of
the principal Act after the commencement of section 6 of this Act.
(3) If, before the
commencement of this subsection, a document ceased to be an exempt document
under subclause (4) of clause 6 of Schedule 1 of the principal Act (as in
force immediately before the commencement of section 11 of this Act) because
the period of 30 years referred to in that subclause had expired, the document
is, for the purposes of an application under the principal Act, or review or
appeal proceedings relating to an application under the principal Act,
determined after the commencement of section 11 of this Act, to be taken to
have continued to be an exempt document under that clause (whether the
application was lodged before or after that commencement).