Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04689:section:1992:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04689
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1992 (pt 2/18)
Character Range: 3326–6117

35. Principal Act
 36. Repeal of section and substitution of new section:
       356. Deposit as security for costs
 37. Court to report cases of illegal practices
      38. Copies of petition and order of Court to be sent to House affected, Governor-General and Speaker
 39. Order to be sent to House affected

Division 3—Consequential amendments of other Acts

 40. Certain signatures etc. to be judicially noticed
 41. Register of practitioners

Law and Justice Legislation
Amendment Act 1993

No. 13 of 1994

An Act to amend various Acts relating to law and justice,
and for related purposes

                          [Assented to 18 January 1994]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1993.

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

  (2) Section 22 is taken to have commenced on 13 January 1993.

  (3) Subject to subsection (4), Part 6 commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(4) If Part 6 does not commence under subsection (3) within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

PART 2—AMENDMENTS OF THE DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992

Principal Act

3. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Disability Discrimination Act 19921.

Registered determination has effect as an order of the Federal Court

4.(1) Section 104B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) and substituting the following subsections:

"(3) No action to enforce the determination may be taken before the end of the normal application and review period.

"(4) In the case of a determination under section 103, a failure by the respondent, during the normal application and review period, to comply with a positive requirement of the determination is not a contravention of the determination.

"(5) The respondent to a registered determination may apply to the Federal Court for review of the determination.

"(6) Subject to subsection (7), the respondent's application for review must be made before the end of 28 days after the day the determination is registered.

"(7) After those 28 days, the respondent may apply for review only with the leave of the Federal Court. The Court may grant leave only in exceptional circumstances.

"(8) If the Court grants leave, it may make one or more of the following orders:

    (a) an order prohibiting action, or further action, to enforce the determination during a specified period ending no later than when proceedings on the review are completed or otherwise terminated;

    (b) an order staying, for such a period,