New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION AND PRINCIPLES OF MULTICULTURALISM ACT 2000 - SCHEDULE 4

SCHEDULE 4 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

(Section 26)

Part 1 - Preliminary

1 Definition

In this Schedule:
"former Act" means the Ethnic Affairs Commission Act 1979 .

2 Savings and transitional regulations

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

this Act

Community Relations Commission and Principles of Multiculturalism Amendment Act 2003

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

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect on 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 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 arising from enactment of this Act

3 Abolition of Ethnic Affairs Commission

(1) The Ethnic Affairs Commission constituted under the former Act is abolished.

(2) The Community Relations Commission is a continuation of, and the same legal entity as, the Ethnic Affairs Commission.

(3) A reference to the Ethnic Affairs Commission in any other Act, in any instrument made under any other Act or in any document is to be read as a reference to the Community Relations Commission.

4 Chairperson of Ethnic Affairs Commission

The person who held office as Chairperson of the Ethnic Affairs Commission immediately before its abolition by this Act is taken to have been appointed under Part 2 of the Public Sector Management Act 1988 as the full-time Chairperson of the Community Relations Commission for the balance of the person’s term of office as Chairperson of the Ethnic Affairs Commission.

5 Commissioners (other than Chairperson) of Ethnic Affairs Commission

(1) A person who held office as a commissioner of the Ethnic Affairs Commission (other than the Chairperson) immediately before its abolition by this Act is taken to have been appointed under this Act as a part-time commissioner of the Community Relations Commission for the balance of the person’s term of office as a commissioner of the Ethnic Affairs Commission.

(2) Any such person who also held office as the Deputy Chairperson of the Ethnic Affairs Commission immediately before its abolition by this Act is taken to have been appointed under this Act as the Deputy Chairperson of the Community Relations Commission.

(3) This clause has effect even though the number of persons taken to be appointed as commissioners of the Community Relations Commission exceeds the maximum number of commissioners permitted by this Act.