CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDERS PROHIBITION ORDERS) ACT 2004 - SCHEDULE 2

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDERS PROHIBITION ORDERS) ACT 2004 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 23)

Part 1 - General

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act or any Act that amends this Act.

(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 this Act

2 Application of Act to previous actions

This Act applies to or in respect of a person who was a registrable person immediately before the commencement of this clause.

Part 3 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Child Protection Legislation (Registrable Persons) Amendment Act 2009

3 Contact prohibition orders

Part 2A applies to or in respect of a person who was a registrable person immediately before the insertion of that Part.

Part 4 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Child Protection Legislation Amendment (Offenders Registration and Prohibition Orders) Act 2013

4 Definition

In this Part:


"amending Act" means the Child Protection Legislation Amendment (Offenders Registration and Prohibition Orders) Act 2013 .

5 Contravention of orders

Section 13, as in force immediately before its amendment by the amending Act, continues to apply in respect of a contravention that occurred before that amendment.

6 Contact prohibition orders

Section 16C (1), as substituted by the amending Act, does not apply in respect of an application that was made before the commencement of that substitution.

7 Applications for orders against young registrable persons

Section 17, as in force immediately before its substitution by the amending Act, continues to apply in respect of an application referred to in that section that was made before that substitution.