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STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (No. 1) 1983 No. 39, 1983 - SECT 7

7. (1) Where this Act-

   (a)  amends a provision of an Act; or

   (b)  repeals and re-enacts (with or without modifications) a provision of
        an Act, any act done or decision made under or in pursuance of the
        provision amended or repealed has effect after the amendment or repeal
        as if it had been done or made under or in pursuance of the provision
        as so amended or re-enacted.

(2) Notwithstanding the amendment of paragraphs 124 (1) (j), (k) and (l) of
the Defence Act 1903 by this Act, regulations made under those paragraphs and
in force immediately before the commencement of the amendment continue in
force as if they had been made under that Act as so amended.

(3) The amendments of section 80 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 made by this
Act extend to proceedings pending immediately before the commencement of those
amendments.

(4) The amendment of section 163A of the Trade Practices Act 1974 made by this
Act does not extend to proceedings pending on the commencement of that
amendment.

(5) An amendment made by this Act increasing the rate of penalty arising in
respect of a liability to pay a charge or levy extends to a penalty arising
before the date of commencement of the amendment, but the rate as so increased
does not apply in respect of that penalty before that date.

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