New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENTS (LIFETIME CARE AND SUPPORT) ACT 2006 - SCHEDULE 3

SCHEDULE 3 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

Part 1 - Preliminary

1 Savings and transitional regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:

this Act

Motor Accidents (Lifetime Care and Support) Amendment Act 2009

Motor Accidents Compensation Amendment Act 2010

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect on the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect on a date that is earlier than the date of its publication on the NSW legislation website, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

Part 2 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Motor Accidents (Lifetime Care and Support) Amendment Act 2009

2 Interim participation

Section 9 (5A) and (5B), as inserted by the Motor Accidents (Lifetime Care and Support) Amendment Act 2009 , extend to a person who:

(a) on the commencement of those subsections is an interim participant, and

(b) was younger than 3 years of age at the time the person became an interim participant.