New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 2

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1 and 2 shall commence of the date of assent to this Act.

(2) Subject to subsection (7), section 50 and clause 6 of Schedule 5 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.

(3) Section 18, the provisions of Part 6 (so far as they relate to the operation of that section) and section 3 (so far as it relates to that section and those provisions) shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

(4) Sections 4, 7, 8 and 9, the provisions of Part 6 (so far as they relate to the refusal of applications made under section 7) and section 3 (so far as it relates to those sections and provisions) shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

(5) Except as provided by subsections (1)-(4) and (6), this Act shall commence on 1 July that next falls at least 3 months after the day appointed and notified under subsection (4).

(6) Section 15 shall commence on the day that is the first anniversary of the 1 July referred to in subsection (5).

(7) Regulations made under section 50 may be made at any time after the commencement of that section, but those regulations shall not take effect:

(a) where they relate to section 18 or to the provisions of Part 6, before the day appointed and notified under subsection (3),

(b) where they relate to sections 4, 7 and 8, before the day appointed and notified under subsection (4), or

(c) where they relate to section 9 or to the provisions of this Act to which subsection (5) applies, before 1 July immediately following the day appointed and notified under subsection (4).