Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in any Act or law the Governor, on the
recommendation of the Minister administering the law of the State under which
a regulation or statutory instrument has been made, may, if he considers it
necessary in order to give effect to the objects of this Act, by Order in
Council amend that regulation or statutory instrument —
(a) for
the purpose of substituting a reference to an amount of money in terms of the
new currency for any reference in that regulation or statutory instrument to
an amount of money in terms of the old currency; and
(b) for
any purpose ancillary to or consequent upon any such substitution,
and every such
amendment shall take effect on the day specified in the Order, not being a day
earlier than the appointed day, but if no such day is so specified shall take
effect on the date of the publication of that Order in the Government Gazette
, or if that date is earlier than the appointed day, then on and after the
appointed day.
(2) An Order made
pursuant to this section may be made without regard to any method
prescribed by law for the amendment of a regulation or statutory instrument of
the kind in question or to the fact that any such regulation or statutory
instrument may be incapable of amendment apart from this section.
(3) An amendment made
by an Order under this section shall not affect the scope or period of
operation of the regulation or statutory instrument amended thereby or be the
subject of any appeal or disallowance or similar procedure, but every
regulation or statutory instrument so amended shall in all other respects take
effect subject to the amendment from the day on which under this
section it becomes effective.
(4) In this
section the term regulation includes rule, local law and by-law.
[Section 12 amended by No. 14 of 1996
s. 4.]