(1) Except as in this Act or in regulations made under section 203B expressly or by necessary implication provided, all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created by or under an Act amended by a provision of the Transport Legislation Amendment (Public Transport Development Authority) Act 2011 or existing or continuing under that Act immediately before the commencement of that provision continue under and subject to this Act to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had if that Act had not been amended by that provision.
S. 203A(1A) inserted by No. 61/2011 s. 26(3).
(1A) Subject to subsection (1B), on and after the commencement of section 26 of the Transport Legislation Amendment (Public Transport Development Authority) Act 2011 any reference in any Act (other than this Act), regulation, subordinate instrument or other document whatsoever to the Director of Public Transport or to the Director of Public Transport on behalf of the Crown is to be construed as a reference to the Public Transport Development Authority unless the contrary intention appears.
S. 203A(1B) inserted by No. 61/2011 s. 26(3).
(1B) Subsection (1A) is to be construed subject to any specific provision made in respect of the application of subsection (1A) in an allocation statement under Part 10 or regulations made under section 203B.
(2) If as a result of an amendment of an Act made by a provision of the Transport Legislation Amendment (Public Transport Development Authority) Act 2011 —
(a) a duty, function or power of a person or a person on behalf of the Crown is transferred to another person or another person on behalf of the Crown; and
(b) that duty, function or power relates to an act, matter or thing of a continuing nature—
that act, matter or thing continues to have effect as if that duty, function or power had always been performed or exercised by the person or person on behalf of the Crown to whom the duty, function or power is transferred.
(3) Nothing in this section limits or otherwise affects the operation of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 .
S. 203B inserted by No. 61/2011 s. 20, expired by force of No. 6/2010 s. 203B(4), new s. 203B inserted by No. 63/2017 s. 21(Sch. 1 item 11.19).