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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 9.71

9.71 .         Transitional provisions

        (1)         Schedule 9.3 has effect for the purpose of the transition to this Act from the provisions it amends.

        (2)         If there is no sufficient provision in this Act for dealing with a matter that needs to be dealt with for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1), regulations may prescribe all matters that are required or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for dealing with the matter.

        (3)         Regulations under subsection (2) may provide that specific provisions of this Act or the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1960 as in force on or after the commencement of this Act, or of subsidiary legislation made under either this Act or that Act —

            (a)         do not apply; or

            (b)         apply with or without specified modifications,

                to or in relation to any matter or thing.

        (4)         Regulations under subsection (2) may have effect before the day on which they are published in the Gazette .

        (5)         To the extent that a regulation under subsection (2) has effect before the day of its publication in the Gazette , it does not —

            (a)         affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or a local government), the rights of that person existing before the day of its publication; or

            (b)         impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or a local government) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the day of its publication.

        (6)         Schedule 9.3 also has effect for the purpose of the transition to —

            (a)         this Act as enacted after the coming into operation of an enactment amending it; from

            (b)         this Act as enacted before the coming into operation of that enactment.

        [Section 9.71 amended: No. 66 of 2006 s. 13.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 17 of 2020 s. 4.]



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