Legislation (General) Regulation 2015

 

Select Legislative Instrument No. 159, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 17 September 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

George Brandis QC

Attorney‑General

 

 

 

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

Part 2—Continuing disallowance provisions

5 Continuing disallowance provisions

Part 1—Preliminary

 

1  Name

  This is the Legislation (General) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

At the same time as Schedule 1 to the Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act 2015 commences.

5 March 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Legislation Act 2003.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Legislation Act 2003.

Part 2—Continuing disallowance provisions

 

5  Continuing disallowance provisions

  For subsection 57(5) of the Act, subsection 57(2) of the Act does not apply to the disallowance provisions in subsections 7(8) and (8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.

Note 1: Under subsection 57(2) of the Act, sections 42 to 48 of the Act are taken to apply to a document that is a legislative instrument to the exclusion of disallowance provisions in force before 1 January 2005 that applied in relation to the document.

Note 2: The effect of this section is that the disallowance provisions in subsections 7(8) and (8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 continue to apply instead of the disallowance provisions in sections 42 to 48 of the Legislation Act 2003.