New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL RESEARCH ACT 1985 - SCHEDULE 3

SCHEDULE 3 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

(Section 63)

Part 1 - Preliminary

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:

Animal Research Amendment Act 1997

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

Part 2 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Animal Research Amendment Act 1997

2 Animal research licences

A reference to an animal research authority in paragraph (a1) of the definition of disqualified individual in section 17 and in sections 25A (2) (e) and 25B (2) (d) is taken to include a reference to an animal research licence granted under Division 4 of Part 4 before its repeal by the Animal Research Amendment Act 1997 .

3 Animal research authorities

An amendment made to section 26 by the Animal Research Amendment Act 1997 does not apply to an animal research authority in force at the commencement of the amendment.