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EMPLOYMENT AGENTS ACT 1996 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

(Section 32)

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may make provision of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act 1991 and the enactment of this Act.

(2) A provision referred to in subclause (1) may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to this Act or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which such a 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.

2 Existing licences

A licence in force (or taken to be in force) under Chapter 7 of the Industrial Relations Act 1991 (relating to private employment agents) immediately before the repeal of that Chapter is taken to have been issued by the Director-General under this Act.

3 Existing registers

A register kept (or taken to be kept) under Chapter 7 of the Industrial Relations Act 1991 is taken to have been kept under this Act.

4 Construction of superseded references

A reference in another Act, in an instrument made under an Act or in any document, to the Industrial Relations Act 1991 (or to a provision of or anything done under that Act) in relation to private employment agents is to be read as a reference to this Act.

5 Transitional fees

Until the regulations otherwise provide, the prescribed fee to accompany an application for a licence under this Act and the fee prescribed for the continuation of such a licence is $40.

6 Transitional penalty notice provision

Until the regulations otherwise provide, an offence against section 21 (except subsection (5)) is a prescribed offence for the purposes of section 29 and the prescribed amount of penalty for the offence is $100.

7 General saving

(1) If anything done or commenced under the Industrial Relations Act 1991 before the commencement of this clause and still having effect or not completed immediately before that commencement could have been done or commenced under this Act if this Act had been in force when the thing was done or commenced:

(a) the thing done continues to have effect, or

(b) the thing commenced may be completed,

as if it had been done or commenced under this Act.

(2) This clause is subject to any express provision of this Act on the matter.