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Provisions) Bill 1996
Explanatory note
This explanatory note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament.*
(a) to make minor amendments to various Acts (Schedule l), 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 transfer certain savings and transitional and other provisions of
on-going effect from some amending Acts into the relevant Principal
Acts, so as to permit the repeal of the otherwise obsolete amending
Acts (Schedule 4), and
(e) to repeal certain Acts (Schedule 5), and
(f) to make other provisions of a consequential or ancillary nature
(Schedule 6).
*Amended in committee--see table at end of volume.
Clause 6 makes it clear that the explanatory notes contained in the Schedules
do not form part of the proposed Act.
Schedules
Schedule 1
Minor amendments
Schedule 1 makes amendments to the following Acts:
Anatomy Act 1977 No 126
Area Health Services Act 1986 No 50
Australian Mutual Provident Society Act 1988 No 47
Bush Fires Act 1949 No 31
Charitable Trusts Act 1993 No 10
Chiropractors and Osteopaths Act 1991 No 7
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act
1995 No 63
Commercial Tribunal Act 1984 No 98
Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring) Act 1993 No 2
Consumer Claims Tribunals Act 1987 No 206
Consumer Credit (New South Wales) Act 1995 No 7
Conveyancing Act 1919 No 6
Crown Lands Act 1989 No 6
Defamation Act 1974 No 18
District Court Act 1973 No 9
Electricity Supply Act 1995 No 94
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Energy Services Corporations Act 1995 No 95
Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985 No 14
Fair Trading Act 1987 No 68
Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 No 35
Motor Dealers Act 1974 No 52
Motor Vehicles Taxation Act 1988 No 111
Podiatrists Act 1989 No 23
Poisons Act 1966 No 31
Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 1941 No 28
Psychologists Act 1989 No 51
Roads Act 1993 No 33
State Owned Corporations Act 1989 No 134
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1990 No 108
Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Act 1975 (1976 No 4)
Stock Medicines Act 1989 No 182
Strata Titles Act 1973 No 68
Strata Titles (Leasehold) Act 1986 No 219
Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 No 146
Supreme Court Act 1970 No 52
Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority Act 1968 No 56
Trade Measurement Administration Act 1989 No 234
Travel Agents Act 1986 No 5
Women's College Act 1902 No 71
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.
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Schedule 3
Amendments replacing gender-specific
language
Schedule 3 substitutes gender-neutral language for the gender-specific
language in various Acts. A policy of using gender-neutral language in New
South Wales legislation was formally announced by the Governor in his
speech for the opening of Parliament on 16 August 1983 and has been strictly
applied ever since. However, gender-specific language remains in many of
the statutes currently in force that were enacted before the policy was
implemented. It is intended that the statute law revision program will
continue the process of removal of that language until it has all been
replaced.
The Schedule adopts 2 approaches:
(a)
it amends particular groups of Acts (those relating to employment and
to health administration), and
(b)
it amends Acts chosen from a chronological list, beginning with the
Water Act 1912.
Schedule 4
Amendments transferring provisions
Schedule 4 transfers into their parent Acts a number of savings, transitional
and other provisions of on-going effect contained in certain amending Acts,
the other provisions of which have been incorporated in reprints or are spent.
The removal of those provisions from the amending Acts permits the repeal
(by Schedule 5 to the proposed Act) of those Acts.
Schedule 5
Repeals
Schedule 5 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 other amending Acts, the on-going provisions of which are
transferred (by Schedule 4) to their parent Acts and repeals several Acts
which are no longer of practical utility.
Schedule 6
General savings, transitional and other
provisions
Schedule 6 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 6.
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