New South Wales Repealed Acts

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ARBITRATION (CIVIL ACTIONS) ACT 1983 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 21)

Part 1 - General

1 Regulations

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

Courts Legislation Amendment Act 1998 , Schedule 1

(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 - Courts Legislation Amendment Act 1998

2 Application of amendments to existing actions

(1) The amendments made to this Act by the Courts Legislation Amendment Act 1998 extend to actions referred to arbitration before the commencement of those amendments. This subclause has effect subject to the following provisions of this clause.

(2) Those amendments do not apply to an action in respect of which an order for rehearing was made under section 18 before the commencement of those amendments.

(3) Those amendments do not apply to an action in respect of which an application for rehearing was pending under section 18 immediately before the commencement of those amendments, unless the applicant requests that the application be treated as having been made after that commencement.