Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If there is no
sufficient provision in this Division for dealing with a transitional matter,
regulations made under this Act 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 this Act as in
force immediately before the commencement of a provision of the Child Care
Services Amendment Act 2011 to this Act as in force after that
commencement.
(3) Regulations
referred to in subsection (1) may provide that a specified provision of
this Act does not apply, or applies with specified modifications, to or in
relation to any matter.
(4) If regulations
referred to in 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 of the relevant provision of the Child
Care Services Amendment Act 2011 , 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 —
(a) to
affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State, an
authority of the State or a local government), the rights of that person
existing before the regulations were published in the Gazette ; or
(b) to
impose liabilities on any person (other than the State, an authority of the
State or a local government), in respect of anything done or omitted to be
done before the regulations were published in the Gazette .
[Section 62E inserted by No. 38 of 2011
s. 38.]
[Part 7 (s. 62- 73) omitted under the Reprints Act 1984
s. 7(4)(e).]