Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00084:section:2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00084
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2
Character Range: 1296–4451

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

Commencement information
Column 1                                                                          Column 2                                                                                                          Column 3
Provision(s)                                                                      Commencement                                                                                                      Date/Details
1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table  The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent                                                               23 September 2003
2.  Schedule 1                                                                    A single day to be fixed by Proclamation, subject to subsection (3)                                               1 January 2004 (s. 2(1); Gazette 2003, GN47)
3.  Schedule 2                                                                    The later of:                                                                                                     (paragraph (b) applies)
                                                                                  (a) immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by item 2 of this table; and
                                                                                  (b) the time when section 9 of the Act that establishes the Director of Indigenous Heritage Protection commences
4.  Schedule 3                                                                    At the same time as the provisions covered by item 2 of this table                                                1 January 2004
5.  Schedule 4                                                                    The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent                                                               23 September 2003

Note 1: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

Note 2: The Director of Indigenous Heritage Protection is expected to be established by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act, which may be enacted in 2002 or a later year.

 (2) Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part of this Act. This information may be included in any published version of this Act.

 (3) If the provisions covered by item 2 of the table do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the latest of the following days:
 (a) the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;
 (b) the day on which the Australian Heritage Council Act 2002 receives the Royal Assent;
 (c) the day on which the Australian Heritage Council (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2002 receives the Royal Assent;
they commence on the first day after the end of that period.