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once in respect of that act or omission.
 (2) Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an Act and the offender has been punished for the offence under the Act, the offender is not liable to be punished for the offence under the Ordinance.
13 Attempt to commit offence
  A provision in an Ordinance which constitutes an offence shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to provide also that an attempt to commit that offence is an offence against that provision punishable as if the attempted offence had been committed.
14 Civil rights not affected
  The imposition of a penalty by an Ordinance in respect of an act or omission does not, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, affect the right of any person to institute civil proceedings in respect of that act or omission.
15 Regulations and rules
 (1) Where an Ordinance confers power to make regulations, then, unless the contrary intention appears:
 (a) notice of the making of regulations made accordingly and of the place where copies of those regulations may be purchased shall be published in the Gazette; and
 (b) subject to this section, regulations made accordingly take effect from the date of publication of the notice referred to in paragraph (a) or, where another date is specified in the regulations, from the date so specified.
 (2) All regulations made under an Ordinance shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the making of the regulations.
 (3) Regulations shall not be expressed to take effect from a date before the date of publication of the notice referred to in subsection (1) of this section in a case where, if the regulations so took effect:
 (a) the rights of a person (other than the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth) existing at that date would be affected in a manner prejudicial to that person; or
 (b) liabilities would be imposed on a person (other than the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before that date;
and where, in any regulations, a provision is made in contravention of this subsection, that provision is void and of no effect.
 (4) If any regulations are not laid before each House in accordance with this section, they are, and shall be deemed to have been, void and of no effect.
 (5) If either House of the Parliament passes a resolution (of which notice has been given at any time within 15 sitting days after the day on which the regulations have been laid before that House) disallowing any of those regulations,