Victorian Current Acts

CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 6L

    (1)     This section applies if, before the commencement day, the Attorney-General or the Minister, on behalf of the State of Victoria, entered into or purportedly entered into an arrangement for the detention at a prison of a person in relation to whom a Commonwealth continuing detention order or a Commonwealth interim detention order is or was in force.

    (2)     The arrangement has the same effect, and gives rise to the same consequences, and is to be regarded as always having had the same effect and having given rise to the same consequences, as it would have if this Act as amended by Division 1 of Part 6 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting Victims and Other Matters) Act 2020 had been in operation when the arrangement was entered into or purportedly entered into.

    (3)     Any act or thing done or omitted to be done, or purportedly done or omitted to be done, whether under a power conferred by or under an enactment or otherwise, before or after the commencement day, in reliance on or in relation to the arrangement, has the same effect, and gives rise to the same consequences, and is to be regarded as always having had the same effect and having given rise to the same consequences, as it would have if this Act as amended by Division 1 of Part 6 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting Victims and Other Matters) Act 2020 had been in operation when the act or thing was done or omitted to be done or purportedly done or omitted to be done.

    (4)     A right or liability conferred or imposed by or in relation to the arrangement, or purportedly conferred or imposed by or in relation to the arrangement, is exercisable or enforceable, and is to be regarded as always having been exercisable or enforceable, as if this Act as amended by Division 1 of Part 6 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting Victims and Other Matters) Act 2020 had been in operation when the right or liability was conferred or imposed or purportedly conferred or imposed.

    (5)     In this section—

commencement day means the day on which Division 1 of Part 6 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting Victims and Other Matters) Act 2020 commences.

Part 2—Administration