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COMMONWEALTH VOLUNTEERS PROTECTION ACT 2003 - NOTES

Act No. 2 of 2003 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 19 April 2011
taking into account amendments up to Act No. 5 of 2011

The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section

The operation of amendments that have been incorporated may be
affected by application provisions that are set out in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

  

  

  


Contents

Part 1--Preliminary                                                                                                              1

1............ Short title [see Note 1] ........................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement ................................................................................... 1

3............ Extended operation of Act ................................................................... 2

4............ Definitions .......................................................................................... 2

5............ Application .......................................................................................... 3

Part 2--Protection from civil liability                                                                         4

6............ Protection from liability ....................................................................... 4

7............ Commonwealth or Commonwealth authority to incur liability ............ 5

8............ Volunteer to assist in defence of actions etc. ....................................... 5

9............ Certain indemnities to have no effect ................................................... 5

10.......... No overriding of Damage by Aircraft Act .......................................... 5

11.......... Regulations ......................................................................................... 5

Notes                                                                                                                                                7


  

Notes to the Commonwealth Volunteers Protection Act 2003

Note 1

The Commonwealth Volunteers Protection Act 2003 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 2, 2003 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Table of Acts

Act

Number
and year

Date
of Assent

Date of commencement

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Commonwealth Volunteers Protection Act 2003

2, 2003

24 Feb 2003

Ss. 3-11: 24 Aug 2003
Remainder: Royal Assent

 

Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Act 2006

125, 2006

4 Nov 2006

Schedules 1-3: 1 July 2007 (see s. 2(1))
Remainder: Royal Assent

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Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Act 2009

54, 2009

25 June 2009

Schedule 18 (item 1): (a)

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Statute Law Revision Act 2011

5, 2011

22 Mar 2011

Schedule 6 (item 124): 19 Apr 2011

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(a)     Subsection 2(1) (item 41) of the Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Act 2009 provides as follows:

                 (1)   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision(s)

Commencement

Date/Details

41.  Schedule 18

Immediately after the commencement of Part 2-4 of the Fair Work Act 2009.

1 July 2009 (see F2009L02563)


Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted     am. = amended     rep. = repealed     rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

Part 1

 

S. 4 .....................................

am. No. 125, 2006; No. 54, 2009; No. 5, 2011


 



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