Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00446:section:14a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00446
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 14A
Character Range: 27337–28907

14A  Doing act when Designs Office reopens after end of period otherwise provided for doing act
 (1) If the last day of a period provided by this Chapter (except this section), or regulations made for the purposes of this Chapter, for doing an act is a day when the Designs Office is not open for business, the act may be done in prescribed circumstances on the next day when the office is open for business.
 (2) For the purposes of this section, the Designs Office is taken not to be open for business on a day:
 (a) declared by regulations to be a day on which the office is not open for business; or
 (b) declared, by a prescribed person in writing published in the prescribed way, to be a day on which the office is not open for business.

Declarations
 (3) A declaration mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) or (b) may identify the day by reference to its being declared a public holiday by or under a law of a State or Territory. This does not limit the way the declaration may identify the day.
 (4) A declaration mentioned in paragraph (2)(b):
 (a) may be made before, on or after the day; and
 (b) is not a legislative instrument.

Relationship with other law
 (5) This section has effect despite the rest of this Chapter.
 (6) Subsection 36(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply in relation to the act mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.

Exception for prescribed act
 (7) This section does not apply to a prescribed act.
Note: Subsection 36(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 is relevant to a prescribed act.

Part 2.4—Miscellaneous