Western Australian Current Acts

COMPETITION POLICY REFORM (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) ACT 1996 - SECT 6

6 .         Future modifications of Competition Code text

        (1)         A modification made by a law of the Commonwealth to the Competition Code text after the commencement of this section —

            (a)         does not apply under section 5 until at least the end of the period of 2 months after the date of the modification, unless a proclamation appoints an earlier day; and

            (b)         does not apply under that section at all, if the modification is declared by a proclamation to be excluded from the operation of that section.

        (2)         A proclamation under subsection (1)(b) has effect only if published before the end of 2 months after the date of the modification.

        (3)         If, after a proclamation is made under subsection (1)(b), a further proclamation is made appointing a day on and from which the modification of the text is to apply under section 5, subsection (1)(b) ceases to apply to the modification immediately before that day.

        (4)         A proclamation under subsection (1)(a) or (3) —

            (a)         cannot appoint any day that is earlier than the day of publication of the proclamation or that is earlier than the day on which the modification of the text takes effect; and

            (b)         is to be regarded in such a case as appointing the day of publication of the proclamation or the day on which the modification of the text takes effect, whichever is the later.

        (5)         For the purposes of this section, the date of the modification is —

            (a)         the day on which the Commonwealth Act effecting the modification receives the Royal Assent or the regulation effecting the modification is notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette ; or

            (b)         the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent,

                whichever is the later.