Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Community Services Act 1970 - SECT 2

Repeals and savings

2. Repeals and savings



(1) The Acts referred to in Schedule One to the extent thereby expressed to be
repealed are hereby repealed accordingly.

(2) Except as in this Act expressly or by necessary implication provided-

   (a)  all persons things and circumstances appointed or created by or under
        any of the repealed Acts or existing or continuing under any of such
        Acts immediately before the commencement of this Act shall under and
        subject to this Act continue to have the same status operation and
        effect as they respectively would have had if such Acts had not been
        so repealed;

   (b)  in particular and without affecting the generality of the foregoing
        paragraph such repeal shall not disturb the continuity of status
        operation or effect of any appointment assignment application
        arrangement agreement determination complaint declaration report order
        regulation transfer certificate notice registration permit roll
        security summons warrant committal surety bond or recognizance or any
        obligation liability or right made effected issued granted given
        presented passed fixed incurred accrued or acquired or existing or
        continuing by or under any of such Acts before the commencement of
        this Act.

(3) Any reference in any other Act to any of the Acts referred to in Schedule
One or to any of the provisions thereof shall be read and construed as a
reference to this Act or to the corresponding provisions thereof.

(4) The operation or application of Division 2 of Part III of the Penal Reform
Act 1956 (the provisions of which so far as they are applicable are reproduced
in Schedule Five) shall not except to the extent indicated in that Schedule be
affected by the repeal of that Act by the Crimes Act 1957.