Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00483:section:2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00483
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2
Character Range: 762–1571

2  Commencement

 (1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 (2) Items 1, 2, 4 and 10 of Schedule 1, and Schedule 3, are taken to have commenced on 3 December 1998.

 (3) Item 3 of Schedule 1 commences, or is taken to have commenced, immediately after the commencement of item 2 of Schedule 1 to the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1999.

 (4) Subject to subsection (5), the remaining items of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

 (5) If the items of Schedule 1 referred to in subsection (4), and Schedule 2, do not commence under that subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period.