Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984 (Cth)

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984

No. 165 of 1984

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

[Assented to 25 October 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. 2) 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 amendment of the Acts Interpretation Amendment Act 1984 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 12 June 1984. (4) The amendment of the definition of "respite care bed" in section 10a of the Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act 1954 made by this Act shall come

into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the date fixed by the Minister for the purposes of sub-section 2 (7) of the Social Security and Repatriation Legislation Amendment Act 1984 or on the day fixed by Proclamation for the purpose of sub-section (20) of this section, whichever is the later. (5) The amendment of sub-section 44 (3) of the Archives Act 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 6 June 1984. (6) The amendments of the Australian Shipping Commission Amendment Act 1983 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 January 1984. (7) The amendment of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act 1980 made by this Act shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (8) The amendments of the Complaints (Australian Federal Police) Act 1981 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1984. (9) The amendments of the Crimes Act 1914 made by this Act shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (10) The amendments of the Family Law Act 1975 made by this Act shall 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. (11) The amendment of the Health Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 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 sub-section 40 (2) of that Act. (12) The amendment of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 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 32 of that Act. (13) The amendments of the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984 made by this Act (other than the amendments of paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of the definition of "Commonwealth authority" in section 3 of the first-mentioned Act) shall— (a) in the case of the insertion of section 37a after section 37 of the first-mentioned Act—come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of sub-sections 15 (1), section 21 and sub-sections 39 (1) and 47 (1) of that Act or of the first of those provisions to come into operation; (b) in the case of the amendment of sub-section 56 (2) of the first-mentioned Act—come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of that sub-section;