Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The regulations
may —
(a) deal
with all matters of a savings or transitional nature arising as a result of
the enactment of this Act; and
(b)
clarify or vary the provisions of this Part; and
(c)
amend or repeal, consequentially on the enactment of this Act, subsidiary
legislation made under an Establishing Act; and
(d) deal
with all matters of a savings or transitional nature arising as a result of
subsidiary legislation made under or for the purposes of an old provision
ceasing to have effect in consequence of the repeal or amendment of the old
provision by this Act.
(2) Regulations made
for the purposes of this section may —
(a) be
expressed to have effect despite another written law; and
(b)
provide that a specified provision of a written law does not apply, or applies
with specified modifications, to or in relation to a matter.
(3) The power in this
section to amend subsidiary legislation made under an Establishing Act does
not prevent that legislation from being amended under that Act.
(4) If regulations
made for the purposes of this section provide that a specified state of
affairs is taken to have existed, or not to have existed, on and from a day
that is earlier than the day on which the regulations are published in the
Gazette (but not earlier than commencement day), the regulations have effect
according to their terms.
(5) If the regulations
contain a provision referred to in subsection (4), the provision does not
operate so as to —
(a)
affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State, a public
authority or a local government), the rights of that person existing before
the day of publication of those regulations; or
(b)
impose liabilities on any person (other than the State, a public authority or
a local government) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before
the day of publication of those regulations.