Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If there is no
sufficient provision in this Part for dealing with a transitional matter,
regulations may prescribe all matters that are required or necessary or
convenient to be prescribed for dealing with the matter.
(2) In
subsection (1) —
transitional matter means a matter that needs to
be dealt with for the purpose of effecting the transition from an Act
(including this Act) as enacted immediately before the commencement day to the
Act as amended by the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Amendment
Act 2010 .
(3) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may provide that specified provisions of this Act as
in force after the commencement of the Agriculture and Related Resources
Protection Amendment Act 2010 , or of subsidiary legislation made under
this Act, or of an Act amended by the Agriculture and Related Resources
Protection Amendment Act 2010 —
(a) do
not apply; or
(b)
apply with specified modifications,
to or in relation to
any matter.
(4) If regulations
under subsection (1) provide that a specified state of affairs is to be
taken to have existed, or not to have existed, on and from a day that is
earlier than the day on which the regulations are published in the Gazette but
not earlier than the commencement day, the regulations have effect according
to their terms.
(5) In
subsections (3) and (4) —
specified means specified or described in the
regulations.
(6) If regulations
contain a provision referred to in subsection (4), the provision does not
operate so as to —
(a)
affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an
authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the day of
publication of those regulations; or
(b)
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 day of
publication of those regulations.
[Section 129 inserted by No. 46 of 2010
s. 54.]
[Schedule deleted by No. 6 of 2006 s. 8.]