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(Section 82)
(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:Mines Inspection Amendment Act 1998Mines Legislation Amendment (Mines Safety) Act 1998Mining Legislation Amendment (Health and Safety) Act 2002
(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.
A reference in any other Act or statutory instrument, or in any other instrument, however expressed, to an inspector for the district or an inspector of the district within the meaning of this Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Mines Inspection (Amendment) Act 1962 , shall be read as a reference to an inspector.
In this Part, "amending Act" means the Mines Inspection Amendment Act 1998 .
A certificate of competency as shotfirer granted in accordance with the general rules before the commencement of section 18G and in force immediately before that commencement is taken to be a certificate of competency as shotfirer granted under section 18G.
A certificate of competency as manager granted under this Act and in force immediately before the amendment of section 7 by the amending Act is taken to be a certificate of competency as production manager.
A certificate of service as manager granted under this Act and in force immediately before the amendment of section 8 by the amending Act is taken to be a certificate of service as production manager.
The register kept under section 11 as in force immediately before the commencement of the amendments made to that section by the amending Act is taken to be the register kept under section 11 as so amended.
A person who held the position of manager of a mine in accordance with section 5 immediately before its substitution by the amending Act is taken to be the general manager of the mine and notification of the relevant details is taken to have been given under subsection (3) of that section as so substituted.
The exemption under section 1 (2) (relating to an opal mine in which no persons are employed other than the owners of the mine) that was proclaimed in Gazette No 81 of 16 May 1986 at page 2127 continues to have effect despite the substitution of section 5 by the amending Act. However, a reference in the proclamation to section 5 (3)-(5A) is to be read as a reference to sections 5A, 5B and 5C.
In this Part:
"amending Act" means the Mines Legislation Amendment (Mines Safety) Act 1998 .
Sections 47B and 47F-47K, as amended by the amending Act, do not apply to an accident or serious incident that occurs before the commencement of the amendment to section 47B.
Sections 47L-47P, as inserted by the amending Act, do not apply to an accident or serious incident that occurred before the commencement of section 47L.