New South Wales Consolidated Acts(Section 17)
(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:Stock (Chemical Residues) Amendment Act 1996Stock (Chemical Residues) Amendment Act 1999
(2) A provision referred to in subclause (1) 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 a provision referred to in subclause (1) 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.
An order in force under section 4 immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 [5] to the Stock (Chemical Residues) Amendment Act 1996 continues in force as if made under subsection (1) of that section, as inserted by that Act.
An order in force under section 12A immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 [14] to the Stock (Chemical Residues) Amendment Act 1996 continues in force as if made under subsection (3) of section 4, as inserted by that Act.
Section 12E (1), as amended by Schedule 1 [2] of the Stock (Chemical Residues) Amendment Act 1999 , applies to the provision of information or advice before or after the commencement of that item.
Anything done by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries under or for the purposes of a provision of this Act is, to the extent that the thing done had effect immediately before the amendment of this Act by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2004 , taken to have been done by the Director-General.