REPRINTS ACT 1972 - SECT 8 Amendment of Acts: figures

This legislation has been repealed.

REPRINTS ACT 1972 - SECT 8

8 Amendment of Acts: figures

(1) For the purpose of the reprinting of an Act under section 5, the Attorney General may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that:

(a) that Act or a specified portion of that Act,

(b) that Act other than a specified portion, or

(c) any specified provision of that Act other than a specified portion,

is an enactment to which subsection (2) applies, and subsection (2) applies to that enactment accordingly.

(2) An enactment to which this subsection applies, except so much thereof as is an excluded law, is amended by omitting therefrom, wherever occurring, matter expressed in words (other than words expressing ordinal numbers) that refer to or designate the number of a Part, Division, Schedule, section, subsection, paragraph, clause, subclause, item, column or other portion of, to or in any Act, Commonwealth Act, Imperial Act or Act of another State and by inserting instead matter expressed in figures (together with parentheses where appropriate) that refer to or designate the same number.