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STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1988 No. 38 of 1988 - SECT 5

5. (1) Except as provided in this section, where this Act:

   (a)  amends a provision of an Act; or

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

(2) Paragraphs (ea) and (eb) of the definition of "Federal appeal" in
subsection 3 (1) of the Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 as amended by
this Act apply only in relation to appeals decided by the Federal Court of
Australia on or after the day fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of
subsection 2 (4).

(3) Subsections 24 (2) and (3) of the Insurance (Agents and Brokers) Act 1984
as amended by this Act apply only in relation to the expiration of a
registered insurance broker's period of registration occurring on or after the
day on which this subsection commences.

(4) In spite of the amendments of subsections 24 (2) and (3) of the Insurance
(Agents and Brokers) Act 1984 made by this Act, those subsections (as in force
immediately before the commencement of this subsection) continue to apply in
relation to the expiration of a registered insurance broker's period of
registration occurring before the day on which this subsection commences.

(5) A person appointed by the Governor-General under section 15 of the
Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970 to act in the office of First Parliamentary
Counsel or an office of Second Parliamentary Counsel shall, on the
commencement of this subsection, be deemed to have been so appointed by the
Minister under section 15 of that Act as amended by this Act.