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AGRICULTURE AND RELATED RESOURCES PROTECTION ACT 1976 - SECT 129

129 .         Transitional regulations

        (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.]



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