HERITAGE RIVERS ACT 1992 - SECT 23 Further transitional and savings provisions
HERITAGE RIVERS ACT 1992 - SECT 23
Further transitional and savings provisions(1) Proceedings for an offence—
(a) committed or alleged to have been committed in a place or area that is within a State forest within the meaning of the Forests Act 1958 that are commenced before the day on which the Heritage Rivers (Amendment) Act 1998 received the Royal Assent; or
(b) of hindering or obstructing activities in a State forest committed or alleged to have been committed before the day on which the Heritage Rivers (Amendment) Act 1998 received the Royal Assent—
are to be heard and determined as if the Heritage Rivers (Amendment) Act 1998 had not been enacted.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (1), anything done or purporting to have been done on or in relation to land that, on the day on which the Heritage Rivers (Amendment) Act 1998 received the Royal Assent, ceased to be in a heritage river area, is, and is deemed always to have been, as valid and permissible as it would have been if this Act had been enacted as amended by the Heritage Rivers (Amendment) Act 1998 .