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CONSUMER CREDIT (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) ACT 1996 - NOTES

Notes

1 This is a compilation of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table 2. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title

Number
and year

Assent

Commencement

Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996

30 of 1996

10 Sep 1996

1 Nov 1996 (see s. 2)

Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 40 and 41

57 of 1997

15 Dec 1997

15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))

Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Amendment Act 2000

14 of 2000

9 Jun 2000

28 Oct 2000 (see s. 2 and Gazette 3 Oct 2000 p. 5573)

Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001 Pt. 15

10 of 2001

28 Jun 2001

15 Jul 2001 (see s. 2 and Gazette 29 Jun 2001 p. 3257 and Cwlth Gazette 13 Jul 2001 No. S285)

Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Amendment Act 2001

30 of 2001

21 Dec 2001

1 Jun 2002 (see s. 2 and Gazette 21 May 2002 p. 2589)

Reprint of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 as at 6 Sep 2002
(includes amendments listed above) (correction in Gazette 2 May 2003 p. 1495)

Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Amendment Act 2003 3

43 of 2003

30 Jun 2003

9 Jul 2003 (see s. 2 and Gazette 9 Jul 2003 p. 2735)

Reprint 2: The Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 as at 13 Feb 2004
(includes amendments listed above)

State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 2 Div. 25 4

55 of 2004

24 Nov 2004

1 Jan 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7130)

2 The amendment in the Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003 s. 41 is not included because the Schedule that it sought to amend had been repealed by No. 43 of 2003 s. 14.

3 The Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Amendment Act 2003 s. 15 reads as follows:


15. Savings and transitional provisions

(1) The repeal of the Appendix to the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 by section 14 of this Act and the application of the Consumer Credit Code set out in the Appendix to the Consumer Credit (Queensland) Act 1994 by section 5 of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 (as in force after the commencement of this Act) is taken to be the repeal and re-enactment of an enactment for the purposes of section 36 of the Interpretation Act 1984.

(2) The repeal of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Regulations 1996 by section 10(2) of this Act and the application of the regulations in force under Part 4 of the Consumer Credit (Queensland) Act 1994 by section 6 of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 (as in force after the commencement of this Act) is taken to be the repeal and re-enactment of an enactment for the purposes of section 36 of the Interpretation Act 1984.

(3) The enactment of section 6A of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 is not, by implication, to have any effect on the interpretation of the former Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Code or the former Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Regulations.

(4) In this section —

Consumer Credit (Queensland) Act 1994 means the Consumer Credit (Queensland) Act 1994 of Queensland;

former Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Code means the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Code within the meaning of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 as in force before the commencement of this Act;

former Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Regulations means the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Regulations within the meaning of the Consumer Credit (Western Australia) Act 1996 as in force before the commencement of this Act.

”.

4 The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administration Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28 and 42 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.