Commonwealth Numbered Acts

OZONE PROTECTION AMENDMENT ACT 1995 No. 124, 1995 - SCHEDULE 2

                               SCHEDULE 2                  Section 4

TRANSITIONAL AND SAVING PROVISIONS 1. Definitions In this Schedule:
transitional period means the period that starts on the day on which this Act
receives the Royal Assent and ends on 1 January 1996. 2. Existing licences to
stop being in force All licences granted under the Principal Act and in force
immediately before 1 January 1996 stop being in force on that day. 3.
Applications for licences before 1 January 1996 An application for a
controlled substances licence, an essential uses licence or a used substances
licence may be made during the transitional period as if all the items in Part
1 of Schedule 1 had commenced. 4. Determination of applications The Minister
may decide an application made during the transitional period as if:

   (a)  all the items in Part 1 of Schedule 1 had commenced; and

   (b)  the application had been made under the Principal Act as amended by
        this Act; and

   (c)  any regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16(2) of the
        Principal Act, as amended by this Act, had commenced. 5. Licences
        granted before 1 January 1996 A licence granted by the Minister during
        the transitional period:

   (a)  comes into force on 1 January 1996, or on such later day (if any) as
        is specified in it; and

   (b)  is taken, on and after 1 January 1996, to have been granted under
        section 16 of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, during the
        licence period that starts on that day. 6. Conditions may be imposed
        The Minister may during the transitional period impose conditions on a
        licence granted during that period as if all of the items in Part 1 of
        Schedule 1 had commenced. 7. Application of Principal Act, as amended,
        to decisions of Minister The Principal Act, as amended by this Act,
        applies in relation to a decision by the Minister made during the
        transitional period:

   (a)  refusing to grant a licence; or

   (b)  imposing a condition on a licence granted during that period; as if
        all the items in Part 1 of Schedule 1 had commenced.