New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FILM AND TELEVISION OFFICE ACT 1988 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

(Section 13)

Part 1 - Preliminary

1 Savings and transitional regulations

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

Film Industry Amendment Act 1996

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

(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 Film and Television Office Act 1988

1A Definitions

In this Schedule:
"appointed day" means the day appointed under section 2.
"repealed Act" means the New South Wales Film Corporation Act 1977 .

2 Dissolution of Film Corporation

The New South Wales Film Corporation is dissolved.

3 Office holders under repealed Act

(1) A person who, immediately before the appointed day, held office under the repealed Act as:

(a) a director, or

(b) the chief executive officer, or

(c) holder of a special office under section 7 of that Act,

ceases to hold office as such on that day.

(2) A person who, under subclause (1), ceases to hold an office is not entitled to be paid any remuneration or compensation because of ceasing to hold the office.

4 Continuity of the Office

The Office is a continuation of, and the same legal entity as, the New South Wales Film Corporation constituted by section 4 of the repealed Act.

5 Superseded references

On and from the appointed day, a reference in any other Act, or in any instrument made under an Act, or in any other instrument of any kind, to the New South Wales Film Corporation shall be read as a reference to the New South Wales Film and Television Office.

6 Finance

On the appointed day, the Office shall transfer to the credit of the New South Wales Film and Television Office Account established under section 7 the money at credit immediately before that day in the New South Wales Film Corporation Management Account then maintained under section 19 of the repealed Act.

Part 3 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Film Industry Amendment Act 1996

7 Saving of existing delegations

Any delegation under section 9 that was in force immediately before the commencement of the Film Industry Amendment Act 1996 continues in force until it is revoked.

Part 4 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2006

8 Construction of references to Director

Unless the regulations otherwise provide, on and from the commencement of this clause, a reference in any other Act, in any instrument made under any Act or in any other instrument of any kind, to the Director of the New South Wales Film and Television Office is to be read as a reference to the chief executive officer of the New South Wales Film and Television Office.