Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2014C00508:clause:6_58
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2014C00508
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 6 cl 58
Character Range: 452503–453613

58  Regulations may deal with transitional, application and savings matters
(1) The regulations may deal with matters of a transitional, application or savings nature relating to the amendments made by this Act.
(2) Regulations made for the purposes of subitem (1) have effect despite anything else in this Part.
(3) Despite subsection 12(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 but subject to subitem (4), regulations made for the purposes of subitem (1) may be expressed to take effect from a date before the regulations are registered under that Act.
(4) If:
 (a) regulations are expressed to take effect from a date (the registration date) before the regulations are registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003; and
 (b) a person engaged in conduct before the registration date; and
 (c) but for the retrospective effect of the regulations, the conduct would not have contravened a provision of the agvet law;
then a court must not convict the person of an offence, or order the person to pay a pecuniary penalty, in relation to the conduct on the grounds that it contravened that provision.