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an offence after the commencement of this section or the time when the State or Territory in which the person is convicted became a participating State or participating Territory, whichever is the later time; or
    (b) was convicted of an offence before the time applicable under paragraph (a) but had not, before that time, been sentenced for the offence.

Operation of Proclamations under the Designs Act 1906
9. Notwithstanding the amendments of section 48 of the Designs Act 1906 made by this Act, any Proclamation in force for the purposes of that section immediately before the commencement of those amendments—
    (a) continues in force after the commencement of those amendments as if it were a regulation made for the purposes of that section as amended by this Act; and
    (b) may be revoked by regulations made for the purposes of that section as amended by this Act.

Validation of purported exercise of powers under section 37a of Family Law Act 1975
10. (1) This section does not have effect in a case in which, after the purported making or giving of a decree, judgment, order or direction by a Registrar, the Family Court of Australia or a Judge has, whether upon an appeal or otherwise, made or given a decree, judgment, order or direction setting aside, or in substitution for, the purported decree, judgment, order or direction.
(2) Where, on or after 2 January 1985 and before the commencement of this section, a Registrar purported, under section 37a of the Family Law Act 1975, to exercise a power of the Family Court of Australia—
    (a) the rights, liabilities, obligations and status of all persons in relation to whom the Registrar purported to exercise the power, or who were otherwise affected by the purported exercise of the power, are, by force of this section, deemed to be, and always to have been, the same as if the power had been exercised by a Judge; and
    (b) all proceedings, matters, decrees, judgments, orders, directions, acts and things taken, made or done, or purporting to have been taken, made or done, under the Family Law Act 1975 in relation to a person in relation to whom the Registrar purported to exercise the power, or who was otherwise affected by the purported exercise of the power, are, by force of this section, declared to have the same effect after the commencement of this section, and to have had the same effect before the commencement of this section, as they would have, or would have had, if the power had been exercised by a Judge.
(3) The Family Law Act 1975 and the regulations and Rules of Court in force under that Act have effect