SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1994 - SECT 5 Automatic revocation of statutory rules

SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1994 - SECT 5

    (1)     Subject to section 5A, unless sooner revoked, a statutory rule is revoked by virtue of this section on the day which is the tenth anniversary of the making of the statutory rule.

Note

Section 25 of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 provides that if a subordinate instrument is expressed to cease to have effect on a particular day, the subordinate instrument continues in operation until the last moment of the day.

    (2)     On the revocation of a statutory rule by this section—

        (a)     any other statutory rule that amends the statutory rule being revoked; and

        (b)     any provision in any other statutory rule that amends the statutory rule being revoked—

is also revoked by virtue of this section, insofar as the amending statutory rule or provision relates to the statutory rule revoked by this section.

S. 5A inserted by No. 78/2010 s. 5.