Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 - SECT 3

Savings

3. Savings



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(2) On and from the commencement of this section in any order, proclamation,
regulation, licence, permit, warrant, authority, Order in Council or other
instrument or document made, issued or given under the Poisons Act 1962 before
the commencement of this section and deemed to have been made, issued or given
under this Act or continued in force under this Act-

   (a)  a reference to a pharmaceutical chemist shall be deemed and taken to
        be a reference to a pharmacist;



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(4) Subject to subsection (2), nothing in this Act shall affect the continuity
of status, operation or effect of any permit issued under section 11 of the
Poisons Act 1962 before the commencement of this section and in force
immediately before that commencement, and that permit shall, on and from the
date of commencement of this section, be deemed to have been issued under the
provisions of this Act that corresponds to section 11 of the Poisons Act 1962.



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

   (a)  all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created by or under
        the Poisons Act 1962 or existing or continuing under that Act
        immediately before the commencement of this section shall under and
        subject to this Act continue to have the same status, operation and
        effect as they respectively would have had if that Act had not been
        repealed; and





   (b)  in particular and without limiting the generality of paragraph (a),
        the repeal of the Poisons Act 1962 shall not disturb the continuity of
        status, operation or effect of any order, proclamation, regulation,
        recommendation, certificate, proceeding, appointment, notification,
        writ, summons, award, judgment, decree, fee, suspension, revocation,
        renewal, enquiry, registration, document, panel, submission,
        remuneration, approval, disapproval, refusal, decision, report,
        investigation, requirement, forfeiture, direction, analysis,
        examination, liability or right made, effected, issued, granted,
        given, instituted, imposed, accrued, incurred or acquired or existing
        or continuing by or under the repealed Act before the commencement of
        this section.



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