New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE SERVICE) ACT 1994 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 43)

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:

Investigative Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 1997

(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 Schedule 2 to Investigative Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 1997

2 Definition

In this Part, "amending Act" means the Investigative Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 1997 .

3 Conditional release

(1) Section 11A only applies to any release ordered on or after the commencement of that section.

(2) Section 11B only applies to any decision, failure or order made or occurring on or after the commencement of that section.

4 Secrecy of identity and location of witness

A reference in section 27, as amended by the amending Act, to a person who has given evidence includes a reference to a person who has given evidence before the commencement of that amendment.