Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 39 of 1985 - SECT 4

4. (1) Where-

   (a)  a Minister, or a delegate of a Minister, made an appointment, gave an
        authorization, granted a permission or approval, made a determination,
        order, requirement or by-law, gave or published a notice or signed or
        issued any other instrument before the commencement of this Act under
        a power conferred on that Minister by a provision of an Act;

   (b)  that provision is amended by this Act so as to confer that power on
        the Comptroller-General of Customs; and

   (c)  that appointment, authorization, permission, approval, determination,
        order, requirement, by-law, notice or other instrument was in force
        immediately before that commencement, the appointment, authorization,
        permission, approval, determination, order, requirement, by-law,
        notice or other instrument continues in force after that commencement
        as if it had been duly made, given, granted, published, signed or
        issued, as the case may be, by the Comptroller-General of Customs
        under that provision as so amended.

(2) Where-

   (a)  a Minister gave, before the commencement of this Act, a delegation to
        a person, other than the Comptroller-General of Customs, to exercise a
        power conferred on that Minister by a provision of an Act;

   (b)  that provision is amended by this Act so as to confer that power on
        the Comptroller-General of Customs; and

   (c)  that delegation was in force immediately before that commencement,
        that delegation continues in force after that commencement as if it
        were a delegation duly given by the Comptroller-General of Customs to
        that person under section 14 of the Customs Administration Act 1985.

(3) Where-

   (a)  a Minister, or a delegate of a Minister, did, or refused to do, before
        the commencement of this Act any act or thing not mentioned in
        sub-section (1) or (2) under a power conferred on that Minister by a
        provision of an Act; and

   (b)  that provision is amended by this Act so as to confer that power on
        the Comptroller-General of Customs, the Act in which that provision
        was included, as that Act has effect as amended by this Act, applies
        as if the Comptroller-General had duly done, or refused to do, as the
        case may be, that act or thing.

(4) Where-

   (a)  the Comptroller-General of Customs gave, before the commencement of
        this Act, a delegation to a person under a power conferred on the
        Comptroller-General of Customs by a provision of an Act; and

   (b)  that delegation was in force immediately before that commencement,
        that delegation continues in force after that commencement as if it
        had been duly given by the Comptroller-General of Customs to that
        person under section 14 of the Customs Administration Act 1985.

(5) The first report to be prepared under section 17 of the Customs
Administration Act 1985 shall relate to the period commencing on the day of
commencement of that Act and ending on 30 June 1986.