New South Wales Consolidated Acts(Section 24)
(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:Historic Houses Amendment Act 2005
(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 any thing done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.
The amendment to section 6 of this Act by the Historic Houses Amendment Act 2005 does not affect the appointment of any trustee holding office immediately before the commencement of that amendment, and any such trustee continues, subject to Schedule 1 to this Act, to hold office for the balance of his or her term of office.
Anything done by the Trust before the commencement of this clause that would have been valid if this Act, as amended by the Historic Houses Amendment Act 2005 , had been in force when the thing was done is validated.