Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1986 (Cth)

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1986

No. 168 of 1986

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

[Assented to 18 December 1986]

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) 1986.

Commencement 2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. (2) The amendment of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 made by this Act inserting proposed section 31a shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(3) The amendments of the Copyright Act 1968 made by this Act shall come into operation immediately after the commencement of section 3 of the Copyright Amendment Act 1986. (4) The amendment of paragraph 36 (3) (d) of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1986. (5) The amendment of the Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 22 May 1986. (6) The amendments of section 11 of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1986. (7) An amendment of a provision of the Interstate Road Transport Act 1985 made by this Act shall come into operation on the day on which that provision comes into operation. (8) The repeal and re-enactment of section 5a of the Migration Act 1958 by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

Amendment of Acts 3. The Acts specified in Schedule 1 are amended as set out in that Schedule.

Repeals 4. The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are repealed.

Transitional provisions 5. (1) Except where it is expressly provided to the contrary, where this Act— (a) amends a provision of an Act; or (b) repeals and re-enacts (with or without modifications) a provision of an Act, any act done or decision made under the provision amended or repealed has effect after the amendment or repeal as if it had been done or made under the provision as so amended or re-enacted. (2) Where a non-citizen was present in the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands or the Coral Sea Islands Territory immediately before the day of commencement of section 5a of the Migration Act 1958 as re-enacted by this Act, he or she shall be deemed, for the purposes of that Act as in force on and after that day, to have entered Australia as a non-citizen at the time (being a time on that day) when he or she is issued with an entry permit under that Act.