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ANTARCTIC (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 156 of 1992 - SECT 2

2. (1) Parts 1 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal
Assent.

(2) Subsections 12(2) and 17(2) commence on 1 April 1994.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), subsection 6(2), section 9, paragraph 12(3)(b),
subsections 13(3) and (4) and 17(3), sections 18 and 27 and Part 4 commence on
a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day not earlier than the day on
which the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty done,
and opened for signature, at Madrid on 4 October 1991 (the

"Protocol") enters into force.

(4) If the provisions referred to in subsection (3) do not commence under that
subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which the
Protocol enters into force, they commence on the first day after the end of
that period.

(5) Subject to subsection (6), subsections 4(2) and 6(3), sections 10 and 11,
paragraph 12(3)(a), subsections 13(5) and (6), 17(4), 19(2) and 25(2) commence
on a day to be fixed by Proclamation, being a day not earlier than the day on
which Annex V to the Protocol becomes effective as provided by Recommendation
XVI10 adopted by the XVIth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting at Bonn on 18
October 1991.

(6) If the provisions referred to in subsection (5) do not commence under that
subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which Annex V
to the Protocol becomes effective, they commence on the first day after the
end of that period.

(7) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on the first day after the
end of the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives
the Royal Assent.