Workers’ Accommodation Act 1952 (Qld)

Workers' Accommodation Act 1952

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the provision of accommodation for workers

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Workers' Accommodation Act 1952.

2 [Repealed]

3 Repeals and savings (1) The Workers' Accommodation Act 1915 (the repealed Act) is hereby repealed. (2) However, but without limiting the operation of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954— (a) unless herein otherwise expressly provided, every order in council, regulation, order, notice, permit, or other act of authority made, issued, given or done under the repealed Act and in force at the commencement of this Act, shall, subject as hereinafter provided, continue in force for the purposes of this Act until it expires by effluxion of time or is repealed, amended, or otherwise modified, revoked, cancelled, or suspended under this Act; however, every such order in council, regulation, order, notice, permit, and other act of authority shall be read and construed subject to this Act; (b) all penalties and forfeitures imposed under the repealed Act and not recovered at the commencement of this Act may be enforced and applied as if this Act had not come into operation; (c) all actions and proceedings of whatever nature commenced or pending at the commencement of this Act under the repealed Act may be carried on and prosecuted as if this Act had not come into operation, and no such action or proceeding shall abate or be discontinued or prejudicially affected by anything in this Act contained; (d) all inspectors and all other officers appointed under the repealed Act and in office at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed to their respective offices under and for the purposes of this Act and, subject to this Act, shall continue to hold those offices respectively in terms of their appointment without further or other appointment under this Act; (e) when in any other Act reference is made to the repealed Act, or to any provision thereof, it shall be taken, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires, that that reference is to this Act or, as the case requires to the corresponding provision of this Act and that reference shall be read and construed accordingly.