Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 10A

                   Where an Act contains a reference to a short title or other citation that is or was provided by the law of a State or Territory for the citation of a law of that State or Territory as originally enacted or made, or as amended, then, except so far as the contrary intention appears:

                     (a)  the reference shall be construed as a reference to that law as originally enacted or made and as amended from time to time; and

                     (b)  where that law has been repealed and re‑enacted or re‑made, with or without modifications, the reference shall be construed as including a reference to the re‑enacted or re‑made law as originally enacted or made and as amended from time to time and, where, in connection with that reference, particular provisions of the repealed law are referred to, being provisions to which provisions of the re‑enacted or re‑made law correspond, the reference to those particular provisions shall be construed as including a reference to those corresponding provisions.