Western Australian Consolidated Acts

DECIMAL CURRENCY ACT 1965 - SECT 8

8 .         Construction of references to currency to be direct amendments to Acts and regulations on reprints

        (1)         Where a reference in any Act or regulation to an amount of money in terms of the old currency is by force of this Act read and construed as a reference to a corresponding amount of money in terms of the new currency, that construction shall, on any reprint of that Act pursuant to the Amendments Incorporation Act 1938 ⁴ , or on any reprint of the regulations containing that regulation pursuant to the Reprinting of Regulations Act 1954 ⁴ , be and be deemed to be for the purposes of that reprint an amendment to that Act, or as the case may be, that regulation.

        (2)         The amendments effected to any regulation as referred to in this section are not, and shall not be deemed to be, regulations to which the provisions of section 36 of the Interpretation Act 1918   ⁵ apply and are not subject to those provisions.

        (3)         In this section the term regulation includes rule, local law and by-law.

        [Section 8 amended by No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]