Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00074:section:2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00074
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2
Character Range: 979–4041

2  Commencement
 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1                   Column 2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Column 3
Provisions                 Commencement                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Date/Details
1.  The whole of this Act  A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     5 August 2021
                           A Proclamation must not specify a day earlier than the day after the day the Minister is satisfied that the amendments of the referred provisions to be made by this Act have been approved by all referring States. The Minister must announce by notifiable instrument the day the Minister is so satisfied.                                                                                                                                (F2021N00176)
                           However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day after the day the Minister is satisfied that the amendments of the referred provisions to be made by this Act have been approved by all referring States, they commence on the day after the end of that period. If the provisions commence in this way, the Minister must announce by notifiable instrument the day the provisions commenced.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
 (3) In this section, referred provisions and referring State have the meanings given by section 18B of the Water Act 2007.