Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 - SECT 39B

Numbering consequential on insertion of new provisions

39B. Numbering consequential on insertion of new provisions



(1) If a section that is not divided into subsections is amended by the
insertion of one or more subsections at the end of it, the section as in force
immediately before the commencement of the amendment must be taken to be
subsection (1) of that section and to be amended, by force of the amending
provision, by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of it.

(2) If a statutory rule containing regulations or rules includes a regulation
or rule that is not divided into subregulations or subrules and that
regulation or rule is amended by the insertion at the end of it of one or more
subregulations or subrules, the regulation or rule as in force immediately
before the commencement of the amendment must be taken to be subregulation (1)
of that regulation or subrule (1) of that rule (as the case requires) and to
be amended, by force of the amending provision, by the insertion of the
expression "(1)" at the beginning of it.

(3) If a clause of a Schedule to an Act or statutory rule that is not divided
into subclauses is amended by the insertion of one or more subclauses at the
end of it, the clause as in force immediately before the commencement of the
amendment must be taken to be subclause (1) of that clause and to be amended,
by force of the amending provision, by the insertion of the expression "(1)"
at the beginning of it.

(4) This section applies only to amendments made by an Act passed, or
statutory rule made, on or after the commencement of the Interpretation of
Legislation (Amendment) Act 1997.