Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If there is no
sufficient provision in this Act or the principal Act to give effect to the
purposes of this Act the Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters
that are required or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving
effect to them, including matters of a savings or transitional nature
consequent on the enactment of this Act.
(2) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may provide that specific provisions of the
principal Act, or of regulations or by-laws made under the principal
Act —
(a) do
not apply; or
(b)
apply with specified modifications,
to or in relation to
any matter or thing.
(3) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may be made so as to have effect on the day this Act
is assented to or a later day.
(4) To the extent that
a provision of any regulations made under subsection (1) has effect on a
day that is earlier than the day of its publication in the Gazette , the
provision does not operate so as —
(a) to
affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the City of Perth or
a new town), the rights of that person existing before the day of its
publication; or
(b) to
impose liabilities on any person (other than the City of Perth or a new town)
in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the day of its
publication.
[ 33, 34. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984
s. 7(4)(e) and (f).]