Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1984 (Cth)

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1984

No. 72 of 1984

An Act to make various amendments of the statute law of the Commonwealth, and for related purposes

[Assented to 25 June 1984]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1984.

Commencement 2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. (2) Sections 1 and 2 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (3) The amendments of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 made by this Act shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (4) The amendment of the Australian Shipping Commission Act 1956 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 January 1984. (5) The amendments of the Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911 made by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. (6) The amendment of sub-section 4 (1) of the Community Employment Act 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 24 June 1983. (7) The amendments of the definition of "Australian installation" in sub-section 4 (1) and of paragraph 161a (3) (c) of the Customs Act 1901 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1983. (8) If the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent is an earlier day than the day on which section 22 of the Customs and Excise Amendment Act 1982 comes into operation, the amendment of section 96a of the Customs Act 1901 made by this Act shall come into operation on the last-mentioned day. (9) If the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent is an earlier day than the day on which section 25 of the Customs and Excise Amendment Act 1982 comes into operation, the amendments of sections 111, 111a and 111d of the Customs Act 1901 made by this Act and the amendment of that Act inserting section 273gab made by this Act shall come into operation on the last-mentioned day. (10) The amendments of the Customs and Excise Amendment Act 1982 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 23 September 1982. (11) The amendments of the Distillation Act 1901 made by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. (12) The amendments of the Family Law Act 1975 made by this Act shall— (a) in the case of the amendment of section 37a of that Act—come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of Part III of the Family Law Amendment Act 1983; and (b) in the case of the amendments of sections 44 and 87 of that Act—be deemed to have come into operation on 25 November 1983; and (c) in the case of the other amendments of that Act—come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. (13) The amendment of the Industries Assistance Commission Act 1973 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 December 1983. (14) The amendment of the Insurance Amendment Act 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 January 1984. (15) The amendments of section 44 of the Judiciary Act 1903 made by this Act shall come into operation on 1 June 1984 or the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, whichever is the later. (16) The amendments of paragraphs 283d (1) (a) and 283e (1) (a) and sub-section 283j (1) of the Navigation Act 1912 made by this Act shall come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of section 76 of the Navigation Amendment Act 1980. (17) The amendment of the Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Act 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 22 December 1983. (18) The amendment of the Radiocommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1983 made by this Act shall come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of that Act. (19) The amendments of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 made by this Act shall come into operation on the commencement of that Act. (20) The amendments of the Spirits Act 1906 made by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. (21) The amendment of the States Grants (Education Assistance—Participation and Equity) Act 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 21 December 1983. (22) The amendment of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 4 June 1982. (23) Section 6 and the amendments of the Student Assistance Act 1973 made by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. (24) Where, under this section, an amendment of an Act comes into operation, or is deemed to have come into operation, on a day (in this sub-section referred to as the "commencement day") other than the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, then sections 3 and 5, in so far as they apply in relation to that amendment, shall come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case may be, on the commencement day.