New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OPTICAL DISPENSERS ACT 1963 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 36)

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:

Health Legislation Further Amendment Act 2004 (but only to the extent that it amends this Act)

Health Legislation Amendment (Unregistered Health Practitioners) Act 2006 (but only to the extent that it amends this Act)

Occupational Licensing Legislation Amendment (Regulatory Reform) 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 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 Health Legislation Amendment (Unregistered Health Practitioners) Act 2006

2 Definition

In this Part:
"amending Act" means the Health Legislation Amendment (Unregistered Health Practitioners) Act 2006 .

3 Prohibition orders

The board may make a prohibition order under section 25 (5) with respect to either or both of the following:

(a) conduct or any other matter or thing that occurred before, or partly before and partly after, that subsection was inserted by the amending Act,

(b) a complaint that has been made but not fully dealt with before that subsection was inserted by the amending Act.

4 Decisions of the board

Section 26 (7A), as inserted by the amending Act, applies only in respect of a statement of a decision that is given after the commencement of that subsection.

5 Cancelled registrations to be publicly available

Section 33A, as inserted by the amending Act, extends to a person whose name is removed from the register, before the commencement of that section, under section 25 (1) or by order of a judge of the District Court.

Part 3 - Provisions consequent on Occupational Licensing Legislation Amendment (Regulatory Reform) Act 2009

6 Roll fee

Despite section 23, an optical dispenser is not required to pay any roll fee for the year commencing 1 July 2010 or any following year.