Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00042:clause:2_3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00042
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 3
Character Range: 72329–73354

3  Regulations may take effect from date before registration
(1) Despite subsection 12(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 and subject to subitem (2), regulations made under item 1 or 2 of this Schedule may be expressed to take effect from a date before the regulations are registered under that Act.
(2) If:
 (a) regulations made under item 1 or 2 of this Schedule are expressed to take effect from a date (the registration date) before the regulations are registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003; and
 (b) a person engaged in conduct before the registration date; and
 (c) but for the retrospective effect of the regulations, the conduct would not have contravened a provision of an Act;
then a court must not convict the person of an offence, or order the person to pay a pecuniary penalty, in relation to the conduct on the grounds that it contravened a provision of that Act.
[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 3 November 2011
Senate on 28 February 2012]
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