Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 2

             (1)  Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

             (2)  Subject to subsection (3), the items of the Schedules, other than Schedule 5, item 1 of Schedule 9, items 2 and 3 of Schedule 12, item 90 of Schedule 16 and the items of Schedule 19, commence on a day or days to be fixed by Proclamation.

             (3)  If an item of a Schedule does not commence under subsection (2) within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

             (4)  Schedule 5 commences on 1 January 1997.

             (5)  Item 1 of Schedule 9 is taken to have commenced immediately before item 19 of Schedule 8 commences.

             (7)  If item 41 of Schedule 5 and item 3 of Schedule 6 commence on the same day, item 3 of Schedule 6 commences immediately after item 41 of Schedule 5.