Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1985 (Cth)

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1985

No. 193 of 1985

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

[Assented to 16 December 1985]

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) 1985.

Commencement 2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. (2) Section 7 of this Act and the amendment of section 41 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 made by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. (3) The amendment of the Banks (Shareholdings) Amendment Act 1985 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 22 May 1985.

(4) The amendment of the Building Industry Act 1985 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 26 August 1985. (5) The amendments of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 made by this Act shall come into operation on the day fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of sub-section 2 (2) of the Australian Citizenship Amendment Act 1984. (6) Section 8 of this Act and the amendments of section 18a, and of sub-section 20ab (1), of the Crimes Act 1914 made by this Act shall come into operation immediately after the amendment of section 2 of the Crimes Amendment Act 1982 made by this Act comes into operation. (7) The amendments of the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 made by this Act (other than the amendment of section 2 of that Act) shall come into operation immediately after the amendment of section 2 of that Act made by this Act comes into operation. (8) Notwithstanding sub-section 2 (1) of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1985, the amendments of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 made by the first-mentioned Act and the amendment of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 made by this Act shall come into operation on the day on which the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 comes into operation. (9) The following amendments of the Patents Act 1952 made by this Act: (a) the amendments of sections 35, 41 and 177; (b) the amendment inserting sub-section (1b) in section 54a, shall come into operation on— (c) the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; or (d) the day fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of sub-section 2 (11) of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1983, whichever is the later. (10) The following amendments of the Patents Act 1952 made by this Act: (a) the amendments of sections 40, 45, 45a, 54b, 55, 58c and 58e; (b) the amendment inserting sub-section (1a) in section 54a; (c) the amendment inserting section 87, shall come into operation on— (d) the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; or (e) the date of commencement of the Patents Amendment Act 1984, whichever is the later. (11) The amendment of Schedule 4 to the Public Service Reform Act 1984 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1984.