South Australian Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1915 - SECT 7

7—Commencement of Acts

        (1)         An Act that contains no provision fixing the date of its commencement, or providing for the fixing of that date, comes into operation on the day on which it is assented to by, or on behalf of, the Crown.

        (2)         Where a Bill is reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's assent, the Bill will be taken, for the purposes of subsection (1)

, to have been assented to on the day on which the assent is notified by proclamation in the State.

        (3)         Where an Act provides that the Act or provisions of the Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation, then, unless the contrary intention appears, the Governor may by proclamation—

            (a)         fix a day or time for the Act or provisions to come into operation;

            (b)         fix different days or times for different provisions of the Act to come into operation;

            (c)         suspend the operation of specified provisions of the Act until a day or time or days or times to be fixed by subsequent proclamation or proclamations.

        (4)         For the purposes of subsection (3)

, a reference to a provision of an Act extends to—

            (a)         a part of a provision;

            (b)         a provision to be inserted into another Act by the Act.

        (4a)         The Governor may, by subsequent proclamation made before the date fixed by proclamation under subsection (3)

for an Act or provision to come into operation, vary the proclamation so as to delay commencement of the Act or provision.

        (5)         An Act or a provision of an Act passed after the commencement of this subsection that is to be brought into operation by proclamation will be taken to come into operation on the second anniversary of the date on which the Act was assented to by, or on behalf of, the Crown unless brought into operation before that second anniversary.