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Australian Government Solicitor (Consequential Amendments) Act 1984 No. 10 of 1984 - SECT 4

4. (1) Where-

   (a)  this Act amends a provision of an Act; and

   (b)  immediately before the commencement of this section, the Crown
        Solicitor-

        (i)    was empowered or required to lodge, under the provision as in
               force immediately before that commencement, a certificate or
               notice relating to a matter, or a certified copy of a document;
               and

        (ii)   had not so lodged a certificate or notice relating to the
               matter, or a certified copy of the document, the provision, as
               amended by this Act, applies after that commencement in
               relation to the matter, or in relation to the document, as the
               case may be, and so applies, in a case where, immediately
               before that commencement, a certificate or notice relating to
               the matter had been prepared, or a copy of the document had
               been certified, under the provision as in force immediately
               before that commencement, as if the certificate or notice had
               been prepared, or the copy of the document had been certified,
               under the provision as amended by this Act.

(2) Where, at the commencement of this section-

   (a)  a bankruptcy notice under the Bankruptcy Act 1966 has been served on a
        debtor by the Commonwealth; and

   (b)  the debtor has not made sufficient compliance with the notice for the
        purposes of that Act, sub-section 42 (1) of that Act, as amended by
        this Act, applies in relation to the notice after that commencement.
(3) Where, at the time (in this sub-section referred to as the ''relevant
time'') when the amendment of the Crimes Act 1914 made by this Act comes into
operation-

   (a)  an application has been made as mentioned in sub-section 20AA (6) of
        that Act, being that sub-section as in force at any time before the
        relevant time; and

   (b)  notice in relation to the application has been served neither on the
        Director of Public Prosecutions nor on the Deputy Crown Solicitor in
        the State or Territory in which the application was made, that
        sub-section, as amended by this Act, applies after the relevant time
        in relation to the application.

(4) Where, at the commencement of this section-

   (a)  an amount of compensation to which a person is entitled under section
        11 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1955 has been determined; and

   (b)  the person has, in relation to the compensation, complied with-

        (i)    none of the paragraphs of sub-section 32 (1) of that Act,
being that sub-section as in force immediately before that commencement;

        (ii)   in a case where paragraph (a) of that sub-section as so in
               force applied immediately before that commencement-one or more,
               but not all, of the paragraphs of that sub-section as so in
               force; or

        (iii)  in a case where paragraph (a) of that sub-section as so in
               force did not apply immediately before that
               commencement-either, but not both, of paragraphs (b) and (c) of
               that sub-section as so in force, sub-section 32 (1) of that Act
               as so in force applies after that commencement in relation to
               the person in relation to the compensation and so applies, in a
               case where sub-paragraph (b) (ii) or (iii) of this sub-section
               applies, as if a reference to the Crown Solicitor in the
               paragraph, or in each paragraph, of sub-section 32 (1) of that
               Act as so in force with which the person has not complied at
               that commencement were a reference to the Secretary to the
               Attorney-General's Department or to a person authorized under
               sub-section 55E (4) of the Judiciary Act 1903.

(5) Where, at the commencement of this section, an amount of compensation has
been deposited in the Treasury under sub-section 33 (1) of the
Lands Acquisition Act 1955 and has not been paid to a person under section 34
of that Act, being that section as in force at any time before that
commencement, that section, as amended by this Act, applies after that
commencement in relation to the amount.

(6) Section 58 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1955, being that section as
amended by this Act, applies after the commencement of this section in
relation to land acquired under that Act by compulsory process, whether the
land was so acquired before or after that commencement.