Commonwealth Numbered Acts

UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION ACT 1974 No. 79, 1974 - SECT 15

15. (1) An act done, or a report furnished, by the Australian Universities
Commission, and a direction or requirement issued by the Minister to the
Australian Universities Commission, before the commencement of this Act shall,
for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act and for the
purposes of any other Act, be deemed to be an act done, or a report furnished,
by the Universities Commission, or a direction or requirement issued to the
Universities Commission.

(2) A person holding office as a member of the Australian Universities
Commission immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, for the
purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, be deemed to have been
appointed to the corresponding office as a member of the Universities
Commission under the Principal Act as amended by this Act and shall, subject
to the Principal Act as amended by this Act, continue to hold office for the
balance of the term for which he was appointed and, for the purposes of this
sub-section, the office of Deputy Chairman of the Australian Universities
Commission shall be deemed to correspond with one of the offices of Deputy
Chairman of the Universities Commission.

(3) A Committee appointed by virtue of section 17 of the Principal Act to
assist the Australian Universities Commission and subsisting immediately
before the date of commencement of this Act continues in existence on and
after that date, by force of this sub-section, as a Committee appointed under
section 17 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act to assist the
Universities Commission and the terms and conditions determined by the
Minister that applied to the members of such a Committee immediately before
that date continue so to apply on and after that date as if they had been
determined under sub-section 17 (3B) of the Principal Act as amended by this
Act.

(4) A reference in a law in force at the commencement of this Act to the
Australian Universities Commission shall be read as including a reference to
the Universities Commission.
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