TORRES STRAIT TREATY (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1984 NO. 22 OF 1984 - SECT 14 Commencement and application of Act

TORRES STRAIT TREATY (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1984 NO. 22 OF 1984 - SECT 14

14. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section
(9) the following sub-sections:

''(9A) Nothing contained in, or done under, sub-section (4) affects the
application of this Act to or in relation to a Papua New Guinea shipwreck or a
Papua New Guinea relic and a Proclamation under that sub-section in relation
to waters adjacent to Queensland shall declare that the Proclamation does not
affect the application of this Act to or in relation to any wrecked vessel or
article that is a Papua New Guinea shipwreck or Papua New Guinea relic within
the meaning of this Act.

''(9B) Where he is satisfied that arrangements made, apart from this Act, with
respect to a Papua New Guinea shipwreck or Papua New Guinea shipwrecks or a
Papua New Guinea relic or Papua New Guinea relics make it appropriate for him
to do so, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that this Act
shall, on a date specified in the Proclamation, cease to apply to and in
relation to that Papua New Guinea shipwreck or those Papua New Guinea
shipwrecks, or that Papua New Guinea relic or those Papua New Guinea relics
and, where such a Proclamation is made, section 8 of the Acts Interpretation 
Act 1901 has effect as if this Act, to the extent that it is so declared to
cease to apply, had been repealed by another Act on the date specified in the
Proclamation.''.