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STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL
(No. 2) 1994
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The objects of this Bill are:
(a) to make minor amendments to various Acts (Schedule 1); and
(b) to amend certain other Acts for the purpose of effecting statute law revision
(Schedule 2); and
(c) to replace gender-specific language with gender-neutral language (Schedule 3);
and
(d) to repeal certain Acts (Schedule 4); and
(e) to make other provisions of a consequential or ancillary nature (Schedule 5).
Clauses 15 are machinery provisions specifying the short title of the proposed Act,
providing for its commencement and giving effect to the Schedules to the Act
containing amendments, repeals and savings, transitional and other provisions.
Clause 6 makes it clear that the explanatory notes contained in the Schedules do not
form part of the proposed Act.
SCHEDULE 1--MINOR AMENDMENTS
Schedule 1 makes amendments to the following Acts:
Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985 No. 156
Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 No. 87
* Amended in committee--see table at end of volume.
Associations Incorporation Act 1984 No. 143
Bush Fires Act 1949 No. 31
Business Names Act 1962 No. 11
Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 No. 55
Compensation Court Act 1984 No. 89
Disability Services Act 1993 No. 3
District Court Act 1973 NO. 9
Election Funding Act 1981 No. 78
Health Care Complaints Act 1993 No. 105
Infants' Home, Ashfield, Act 1924 No. 13
Justices Act 1902 No. 27
Local Courts Act 1982 No. 164
Mining Act 1992 No. 29
Native Title (New South Wales) Act 1994 No. 45
Occupational Health and Safety Act 1983 No. 20
Ombudsman Act 1974 No. 68
Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 No. 84
Poisons Act 1966 No. 31
Police Service Act 1990 No. 47
Poultry Meat Industry Act 1986 No. 101
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 No. 200
Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 No. 152
Reprints Act 1972 No. 48
South-west Tablelands Water Supply Administration Act 1941 No. 36
Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978 No. 141
Strata Titles (Leasehold) Act 1986 No. 219
Teacher Housing Authority Act 1975 No. 27
Trade Measurement Act 1989 No. 233
University of Technology, Sydney, Act 1989 No. 69
Very Fast Train (Route Investigation) Act 1989 No. 44
Women's College Act 1902 No. 71
The Schedule also amends the Local Courts Regulation 1994.
The amendments to each Act and to the Regulation are explained in detail in the
explanatory note relating to the Act concerned set out in Schedule 1.
Where necessary, provisions of a saving, transitional or other nature relating to the
amendment concerned have also been set out in Schedule 1.
SCHEDULE 2--AMENDMENTS BY WAY OF STATUTE LAW REVISION
Schedule 2 amends certain other Acts for the purpose of effecting statute law
revision. A number of other amendments are made relating to formal drafting matters
and minor corrections.
The amendments to each Act are explained in detail in the explanatory note relating
to the Act concerned set out in Schedule 2.
SCHEDULE 3--AMENDMENTS REPLACING GENDER-SPECIFIC
LANGUAGE
Schedule 3 substitutes gender-neutral language for gender-specific language in
various Acts. A similar Schedule was introduced in the last Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act, specifically aimed at removing gender-specific language from the
statute book. It is intended that the statute law revision program will continue the
process of removal until all gender-specific language has been replaced.
The Schedule adopts two approaches:
(a) it amends Acts chronologically, beginning with the Real Property Act 1900; and
(b) it amends a particular group of Acts (those relating to the administration of
justice).
SCHEDULE 4--REPEALS
Schedule 4 repeals a number of Acts. Since the Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act 1985, the number of Acts in force has been gradually reduced by
repealing amending Acts once the amendments contained in the Acts have been
incorporated in a reprint. The Schedule continues this process. It also repeals certain
Acts that amended repealed Acts, and Acts that are no longer of any practical utility.
SCHEDULE 5--GENERAL SAVINGS, TRANSITIONAL AND OTHER
PROVISIONS
Schedule 5 contains savings, transitional and other provisions of a more general
effect than those set out in Schedule 1.
The purpose of each provision is explained in detail in the explanatory note relating
to the provision concerned set out in Schedule 5.