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of an Act; or
    (b) repeals and re-enacts (with or without modifications) a provision of an Act,
any act done or decision made under or in pursuance of the provision amended or repealed has effect after the amendment or repeal as if it had been done or made under or in pursuance of the provision as so amended or re-enacted.
(2) Notwithstanding the amendment of paragraphs 124 (1) (j), (k) and (l) of the Defence Act 1903 by this Act, regulations made under those paragraphs and in force immediately before the commencement of the amendment continue in force as if they had been made under that Act as so amended.
(3) The amendments of section 80 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 made by this Act extend to proceedings pending immediately before the commencement of those amendments.
(4) The amendment of section 163a of the Trade Practices Act 1974 made by this Act does not extend to proceedings pending on the commencement of that amendment.

(5) An amendment made by this Act increasing the rate of penalty arising in respect of a liability to pay a charge or levy extends to a penalty arising before the date of commencement of the amendment, but the rate as so increased does not apply in respect of that penalty before that date.

SCHEDULE 1 Section 3

AMENDMENT OF ACTS
Acts                                                                            Amendments
Acts Interpretation                                                             New paragraph 22 (f)—
  Act 1901                                                                       After paragraph 22 (e), add the following paragraph:
                                                                                     "(f) 'Foreign country' means any country (whether or not an independent sovereign state) outside Australia and the external Territories.".
New section 34c—
 After section 34b, insert the following section:
 Periodic reports
                                                                                     "34c. (1) In this section—
                                                                                 'periodic report' means a regular report relating to—
     (a) the activities, operations, business or affairs of a person; or
     (b) the administration, operation or working of an Act or part of an Act,
  during a particular period that ends on or after 30 June 1983;
                                                                                  'person' includes a body corporate, office, commission, authority, committee, tribunal, board, institute, organization or other body however described.
                                                                                 "(2) Where an Act requires a person to furnish a periodic report to a Minister but does not specify a period within which the report is to be so furnished, that person shall furnish the report to the Minister as soon as practicable after the end of the particular period to which the report relates and, in any event, within 6 months after the end of that particular period.

SCHEDULE 1—continued

Acts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Amendments
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           "(3) Where an Act requires a person to furnish a periodic report to a Minister for presentation to the Parliament but does not specify a period within which the report is to be so