STEVEDORING INDUSTRY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT 1974

No. 44 of 1974

An Act relating to the Stevedoring Industry.

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

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1974.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act, as in force immediately before 1 July 1974, to continue in force, &c.

3. Notwithstanding section 4 of the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1973, as in force immediately before 1 July 1974, but, subject to this Act, that Act—

(a) shall be deemed not to have been repealed on that date but to have continued in force up to the commencement of this Act; and

(b) shall continue in force after the commencement of this Act.

Cessation of operation of Act.

4. (1) Section 4 of the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1973, as continued in force by virtue of section 3 of this Act, is amended by omitting the figures and word “1st July, 1974” and substituting the figures and word “1 July 1976”.

(2) The amendment made by sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1974.

Regulations, &c., under Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act, as in force immediately before 1 July 1974, to continue in force.

5. Regulations or other instruments in force under the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1973 immediately before 1 July 1974 shall be deemed to have continued in force on and after that date for the purposes of that Act as affected by this Act.

Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority and Stevedoring Industry Council to continue in being.

6. The Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority as subsisting immediately before 1 July 1974 and the Stevedoring Industry Council as subsisting immediately before 1 July 1974 shall be deemed to have continued in existence on and after that date under the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1973, as affected by this Act.

Saving of certain acts.

7. An act or thing done on or after 1 July 1974 and before the date of commencement of this Act that could have been done in pursuance of the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1973 or the regulations referred to in section 5 of this Act if that Act or those regulations had been in force at the time when it was done shall be deemed to have been done in pursuance of that Act or those regulations as affected by this Act.

Citation.

8. The Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1973, as affected by this Act, may be cited as the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-1974.