EXHIBITED ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SCHEDULE 5

EXHIBITED ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SCHEDULE 5

SCHEDULE 5 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

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 Welfare Legislation Amendment Act 2009

(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 on the NSW legislation website, 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 - Provision consequent on enactment of Animal Welfare Legislation Amendment Act 2009

2 Appeals and reviews

Division 5 of Part 3, as substituted by the Animal Welfare Legislation Amendment Act 2009 , applies to decisions made on or after the substitution of that Division. Division 5 of Part 3, as in force immediately before that substitution, continues to apply to decisions made before that substitution.