New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS LEGISLATION (REPEAL AND AMENDMENT) ACT 1998 - SECT 3

3 Repeal of Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 No 54

(1) The Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 is repealed.

(2) Different days may be appointed for the commencement of subsection (1) for the purpose of repealing, on different days, different provisions of the Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 .

(3) For the purpose of giving effect to the amendment made by section 5 and Schedule 2.7, and despite the terms of that amendment:

(a) a provision of the Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 specified in Schedule 1 to the Commonwealth Powers (Family Law-Children) Act 1986 does not cease to be so specified until the provision is repealed pursuant to this section, and

(b) a provision of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 does not become a provision specified in Schedule 1 to the Commonwealth Powers (Family Law-Children) Act 1986 until the provision is commenced pursuant to section 2 of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 .