Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH FUNCTIONS (STATUTES REVIEW) ACT 1981 - NOTES

This compilation was prepared on 18 September 2001
taking into account amendments up to Act No. 16 of 1990
[Note: Some provisions of this Act are not in force, see Note 2]
The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Note 1

The Commonwealth Functions (Statutes Review) Act 1981 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 74, 1981 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Table of Acts

(a) Subsections 2(5)-(7) provide as follows:

(5) Section 225 shall come into operation on the day on which subsection 5(2) of the Navigation Amendment Act 1980 comes into operation.
(6) Sections 226, 227 and 230 shall come into operation on the day on which section 18 of the Navigation Amendment Act 1980 comes into operation.
(7) Section 228 shall come into operation on the day on which sections 61 and 62 of the Navigation Amendment Act 1980 come into operation.

Sections 5(2), 18, 61 and 62 of the Navigation Amendment Act 1980 were repealed by section 25 of the Transport Legislation Amendment Act 1988 before a date was fixed for the commencement of sections 225-228 and 230.
(b) The Commonwealth Functions(Statutes Review) Act 1981 was amended by Part X (sections 36 and 37) and section 68 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1981, subsections 2(6) and 2(12) of which provide as follows:

(6) Part X shall come into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the date of commencement of subsection 125(1) of the Commonwealth Functions (Statutes Review) Act 1981.
(12) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(c) The Commonwealth Functions (Statutes Review) Act 1981 was amended by Part LXXVII (section 280) only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 2) 1982, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Sections 1, 2, 166 and 195 and Parts III, VI, VII, XVI, XXXVI, XLIV, LI, LIII, LIV, LXI and LXXVII shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(d) The Commonwealth Functions (Statutes Review) Act 1981 was amended by section 3 only of the Australian Government Solicitor (Consequential Amendments) Act 1984, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act shall come into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the day on which section 7 of the Judiciary Amendment Act (No. 2) 1984 comes into operation.

(e) The Commonwealth Functions(Statutes Review) Act 1981 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(f) The Commonwealth Functions(Statutes Review) Act 1981 was amended by subsection 29(1) only of the Primary Industries and Energy Legislation Amendment Act (No. 3) 1989, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Table of Amendments

Subsections 2(3), (4) and (10) provide as follows:

(3)

Section 172 shall come into operation on the day on which section 44 of the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act 1972 comes into operation.

(4)

Section 173 shall come into operation on the day on which section 46 of the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act 1972 comes into operation.

(10)

The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on such respective dates as are fixed by Proclamation.

As at 18 September 2001 no date had been fixed for the commencement of Divisions 1, 2, 6, 15 and 16 (sections 3, 4, 34-40, 89 and 90) of Part II, and sections 172 and 173.