Statute Law Revision Act 2006
No. 9, 2006
An Act to make various amendments of the statute law of the Commonwealth, to repeal certain obsolete Acts, and for related purposes
Note: An electronic version of this Act is available in ComLaw (http://www.comlaw.gov.au/)
Contents
1 Short title...........................................................................................1 2 Commencement.................................................................................1 3 Schedule(s)........................................................................................6
Schedule 1—Amendment of principal Acts 8 Aged Care Act 1997 8 Australian Federal Police Act 1979 8 Australian Passports Act 2005 8 Banking Act 1959 8 Copyright Act 1968 8 Crimes Act 1914 9 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 9 International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995 10 Life Insurance Act 1995 10 Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 10 Privacy Act 1988 11 Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951 11 Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 11 Surveillance Devices Act 2004 11
Schedule 2—Amendment of amending Acts 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2005 12 Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997 12 Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry (Repeals and Consequential Provisions) Act 1997 12 Broadcasting Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1992 13 Complaints (Australian Federal Police) Amendment Act 1994 13 Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001 13 Crimes Amendment (Enforcement of Fines) Act 1998 14 Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003 14 Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000 14
Customs Legislation (Anti-dumping Amendments) Act 1998 15 Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 1998 15 Hearing Services and AGHS Reform Act 1997 15 Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Amendment Act 2003 15 Privacy Amendment Act 2004 15 Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2001 16 Superannuation (Government Co-contribution for Low Income Earners) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003 16 Superannuation Legislation (Commonwealth Employment) Repeal and Amendment Act (No. 1) 2003 16 Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002 16 Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Direct Deductions and Other Measures) Act 2004 17 Schedule 3—Repeal of obsolete Acts 18 Part 1—Acts administered by the Minister for Defence 18
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund (Distribution of Surplus to Pensioners) Act 1976 18 Part 2—Acts administered by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 19 Appropriation (East Timor) Act 1999-2000 19 Asian Development Fund Act 1978 19 Asian Development Fund Act 1982 19 Asian Development Fund Act 1987 19 Asian Development Fund Act 1992 19 Indus Basin Development Fund Agreement Act 1960 19 Indus Basin Development Fund Supplemental Agreement Act 1965 19 International Development Association Act 1987 20 International Development Association (Further Payment) Act 1980 20 International Development Association (Further Payment) Act 1984 20 International Development Association (Further Payment) Act 1990 20 International Development Association (Further Payment) Act 1993 20
International Development Association (Special Contribution) Act 1983 20 International Development Association (Special Contribution) Act 1985 21 International Fund for Agricultural Development Act 1982 21 International Fund for Agricultural Development Act 1987 21 Part 3—Acts administered by the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources 22 Bounty and Capitalisation Grants (Textile Yarns) Act 1981 22 Bounty (Bed Sheeting) Act 1977 22 Bounty (Books) Act 1986 22 Bounty (Citric Acid) Act 1991 22 Bounty (Computers) Act 1984 22 Bounty (Fuel Ethanol) Act 1994 22 Bounty (Machine Tools and Robots) Act 1985 22 Bounty (Photographic Film) Act 1989 23 Bounty (Printed Fabrics) Act 1981 23 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Grants) Act 1980 23
Statute Law Revision Act 2006
No. 9, 2006
An Act to make various amendments of the statute law of the Commonwealth, to repeal certain obsolete Acts, and for related purposes
[Assented to 23 March 2006]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act 2006.
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 |
Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 23 March 2006 |
elsewhere covered | |
by this table | |
2. Schedule 1, item 1 | Immediately after the commencement of Division 43 of the Aged Care Act 1997. | 1 October 1997 |
3. Schedule 1, items 2 and 3 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 23 March 2006 |
4. Schedule 1, items 4 to 6 | Immediately after the commencement of sections 3 to 58 of the Australian Passports Act 2005. | 1 July 2005 |
5. Schedule 1, item 7 | Immediately after the commencement of item 98 of Schedule 2 to the Financial | 1 July 1998 |
Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 1998. | |
6. Schedule 1, items 8 and 9 | Immediately after the commencement of item 191 of Schedule 9 to the US Free Trade | 1 January 2005 |
Agreement Implementation Act 2004. | |
7. Schedule 1, item 10 | Immediately after the commencement of the Crimes (Search Warrants and Powers of Arrest) Amendment Act 1994. | 30 November 1994 |
8. Schedule 1, items 11 and 12 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 23 March 2006 |
9. Schedule 1, items 13 to 15 | Immediately after the commencement of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. | 16 July 2000 |
10. Schedule 1, item 16 | Immediately after the commencement of section 51 of the International War Crimes | 28 August 1995 |
Tribunals Act 1995. | |
11. Schedule 1, item 17 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 23 March 2006 |
Commencement information |
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
12. Schedule 1, items 18 to 20 | Immediately after the commencement of item 38 of Schedule 1 to the Petroleum | 1 January 2005 |
(Submerged Lands) Amendment Act 2003. | |
13. Schedule 1, item 21 | Immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000. | 21 December 2001 |
14. Schedule 1, item 22 | Immediately after the commencement of item 1126 of Schedule 2 to the Audit | 1 January 1998 |
(Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997. | |
15. Schedule 1, item 23 | Immediately after the commencement of subsection 4(1) of the Commonwealth Employees’ Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988. | 1 July 1988 |
16. Schedule 1, item 24 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 23 March 2006 |
17. Schedule 1, items 25 and 26 | Immediately after the commencement of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004. | 15 December 2004 |
18. Schedule 2, item 1 | Immediately after the time specified in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2005 for the | 24 March 2005 |
commencement of item 72 of Schedule 4 to | |
that Act. | |
19. Schedule 2, item 2 | Immediately after the time specified in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 2005 for the | 24 March 2005 |
commencement of item 73 of Schedule 4 to | |
that Act. | |
20. Schedule 2, item 3 | Immediately after the time specified in the Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997 for the commencement | 1 January 1998 |
of item 1118 of Schedule 2 to that Act. | |
21. Schedule 2, item 4 | Immediately after the time specified in the Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997 for the commencement | 1 January 1998 |
of item 1120 of Schedule 2 to that Act. | |
Commencement information |
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provision(s) 22. Schedule 2, item 5 | Commencement Immediately after the time specified in the Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997 for the commencement of item 1134 of Schedule 2 to that Act. | Date/Details 1 January 1998 |
23. Schedule 2, item 6 | Immediately after the time specified in the Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997 for the commencement of item 1135 of Schedule 2 to that Act. | 1 January 1998 |
24. Schedule 2, item 7 | Immediately after the time specified in the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry (Repeals and Consequential Provisions) Act 1997 for the commencement of item 6 of | 1 July 1998 |
| Schedule 3 to that Act. | |
25. Schedule 2, item 8 | Immediately after the time specified in the Broadcasting Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1992 for the commencement of the | 5 October 1992 |
| amendments in Schedule 2 to that Act of | |
| section 6 of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. | |
26. Schedule 2, item 9 | Immediately after the time specified in the Complaints (Australian Federal Police) Amendment Act 1994 for the commencement of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 13 January 1995 |
27. Schedule 2, item 10 | Immediately after the time specified in the Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001 for the commencement of item 25 of Schedule 3 to that Act. | 15 July 2001 |
28. Schedule 2, items 11 to 13 | Immediately after the time specified in the Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001 for the commencement of item 4 of Schedule 6 to that Act. | 15 July 2001 |
29. Schedule 2, item 14 | Immediately after the time specified in the Crimes Amendment (Enforcement of Fines) Act 1998 for the commencement of item 3 of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 29 June 1998 |
Commencement information |
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provision(s) 30. Schedule 2, item 15 | Commencement At the same time as items 6A to 13 of Schedule 2 to the Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003. | Date/Details 3 June 2003 |
31. Schedule 2, item 16 | Immediately after the time specified in the Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000 for the commencement of item 277 of Schedule 2 to that Act. | 24 May 2001 |
32. Schedule 2, item 17 | Immediately after the time specified in the Customs Legislation (Anti-dumping Amendments) Act 1998 for the commencement of item 61 of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 24 July 1998 |
33. Schedule 2, item 18 | Immediately after the time specified in the Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 1998 for the commencement of item 99 of Schedule 2 to that Act. | 1 July 1998 |
34. Schedule 2, item 19 | Immediately after the time specified in the Hearing Services and AGHS Reform Act 1997 for the commencement of item 6 of Schedule 4 to that Act. | 18 June 1997 |
35. Schedule 1, item 20 | Immediately after the time specified in the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Amendment Act 2003 for the commencement of item 104 of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 1 January 2005 |
36. Schedule 2, item 21 | Immediately after the time specified in the Privacy Amendment Act 2004 for the commencement of item 11 of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 21 April 2004 |
37. Schedule 2, item 22 | Immediately after the time specified in the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2001 for the commencement of item 25 of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 1 October 2001 |
Commencement information |
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
38. Schedule 2, item 23 | Immediately after the commencement of section 2 of the Superannuation (Government Co-contribution for Low Income Earners) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003. | 12 November 2003 |
39. Schedule 2, item 24 | Immediately after the commencement of section 2 of the Superannuation Legislation (Commonwealth Employment) Repeal and Amendment Act (No. 1) 2003. | 30 June 2003 |
40. Schedule 2, item 25 | Immediately after the time specified in the Superannuation Legislation (Commonwealth Employment) Repeal and Amendment Act (No. 1) 2003 for the commencement of item 170 of Schedule 1 to that Act. | 30 June 2003 |
41. Schedule 2, item 26 | Immediately after the time specified in the Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002 for the commencement of item 52 of Schedule 6 to that Act. | 13 May 1997 |
42. Schedule 2, item 27 | Immediately after the time specified in the Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Direct Deductions and Other Measures) Act 2004 for the commencement of item 86 of | 29 June 2004 |
Schedule 1 to that Act. | |
43. Schedule 3 The day on which this Act receives the 23 March 2006 Royal Assent.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1 Amendment of principal Acts
Schedule 1—Amendment of principal Acts
Aged Care Act 1997
1 Paragraph 43-4(5)(b)
After “paragraph”, insert “51”.
Australian Federal Police Act 1979
2 Subsection 64(2)
Omit “(2)”.
3 Subsection 64AA(1)
Omit “(1)”.
Australian Passports Act 2005
4 At the end of subparagraph 13(1)(b)(iii)
Add “or”.
5 Subsection 13(1)
After “refusal/cancellation request in relation to”, insert “the”.
6 Subsection 13(3) (definition of competent authority)
Omit “or (b)”, substitute “, (b) or (c)”.
Banking Act 1959
7 Subsection 33(6)
Omit “a ADI’s”, substitute “an ADI’s”.
Copyright Act 1968
8 Section 116AB (paragraph (a) of the definition of industry code)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute: