Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 - SECT 11

Time of commencement and date of passing of Acts

11. Time of commencement and date of passing of Acts



(1) Subject to subsection (2) and to section 71 of the Constitution Act 1975,
if a particular day is fixed (whether in the Act or in a proclamation made
under the Act) for an Act or a provision of an Act to come into operation, the
Act or provision comes into operation at the beginning of that day.

(2) If an Act confers power on the Governor in Council to fix by proclamation
published in the Government Gazette a day for the Act or a provision or
provisions of the Act to come into operation, the publication of the
proclamation in the Government Gazette is a condition precedent to the coming
into operation of the Act or provision or provisions in question.

(2A) If a proclamation fixing a day for the coming into operation of an Act or
a provision or provisions of an Act is made on or before the fixed day but is
not published in the Government Gazette until after that day, the proclamation
does not wholly fail but the Act or provision comes, or the provisions come,
into operation at the beginning of the day on which the proclamation is so
published.

(3) The date of the passing of an Act is the date on which the Act receives
the Royal Assent.



(4) A reference in an Act to the date of commencement of that Act or another
Act or a portion containing 2 or more provisions of that Act or another Act
is, if the whole of the Act or portion referred to did not come, or is not to
come, into operation on the one day, a reference to the first day on or before
which all the provisions of the Act or portion referred to have come, or will
have come, into operation.