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WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1991 - SECT 28

Transitional provision—Witness Protection Amendment Act 2014

    (1)     If a memorandum of understanding entered into under section 5 before the commencement day that is in force on that day does not include any obligations referred to in section 5(2)(fa) as inserted by section 11(b) of the amending Act

        (a)     the Chief Commissioner may give written notice to the witness of any such obligations; and

        (b)     if so, the memorandum of understanding is taken to include those obligations on and after the time of notification.

    (2)     An appeal that had been instituted under section 17(5) or 19(6) before the commencement day but not determined before that day may be determined on and after that day as if this Act had not been enacted and section 18 or 20 (as the case requires) as in force immediately before the commencement day, continues to apply in respect of that appeal.

    (3)     In this section—

"amending Act" means the Witness Protection Amendment Act 2014 ;

"commencement day" means the day after the day on which the amending Act receives the Royal Assent.

S. 29 inserted by No. 34/2016 s. 25.



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