South Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS ACT 2000 - SCHEDULE

Schedule—Repeal and transitional provisions

1—Repeal

The Electrical Products Act 1988 (the repealed Act ) is repealed.

2—Transitional provisions

        (1)         An electrical product labelled under the authority of the Minister in accordance with the regulations pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the repealed Act will be taken to have been labelled so as to indicate its compliance with applicable safety and performance standards under the authority of the Technical Regulator in accordance with the regulations pursuant to section 6(1)(a) of this Act.

        (2)         A domestic appliance labelled under the authority of the Minister in accordance with the regulations pursuant to section 5(2)(a) of the repealed Act will be taken to have been labelled so as to indicate its energy efficiency under the authority of the Technical Regulator in accordance with the regulations pursuant to section 6(3)(a) of this Act.

        (3)         A prohibition or requirement under section 6 of the repealed Act in force immediately before the commencement of this Act will be taken to be a prohibition or requirement imposed by the Technical Regulator under section 8 of this Act.

        (4)         An authorised person appointed for the purposes of the repealed Act will be taken to have been appointed as an authorised person under Part 3 of this Act.

3—Regulations—other transitional provisions

        (1)         The regulations may contain other provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.

        (2)         A provision referred to in subclause (1) may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from a day antecedent to the day on which the regulations are made.

        (3)         To the extent to which a provision referred to in subclause (1) 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.