PROTECTED DISCLOSURE ACT 2012 (NO. 85 OF 2012) - SECT 80 Regulations dealing with transitional matters

PROTECTED DISCLOSURE ACT 2012 (NO. 85 OF 2012) - SECT 80

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations containing provisions of a transitional nature, including matters of an application or savings nature, arising as a result of the enactment of this Act, including the repeals and amendments made by this Act.

    (2)     Regulations made under this section may—

        (a)     have a retrospective effect to the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent; and

        (b)     be of limited or general application; and

        (c)     leave any matter or thing to be decided by a specified person or class of person; and

        (d)     provide for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the regulations made under this section.

    (3)     Regulations under this section have effect despite anything to the contrary—

        (a)     in any Act (other than this Act or the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 ); or

        (b)     in any subordinate instrument.

    (4)     This section is repealed on the second anniversary of the day on which it comes into operation.

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PART 12—TRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS