Legislation Act 2001

The provisions of a law providing for its name and commencement automatically commence on its notification day.

However, if a provision of the law commences before the law’s notification day, the naming and commencement provisions are taken to have automatically commenced—

on that commencement; or

if 2 or more provisions of the law commence at different times before the notification day—on the earlier or earliest of the commencements.

In the application of this section to a statutory instrument that is not a legislative instrument, a reference to the instrument’s notification day is a reference to the day after the day it is made or, if it is required under an Act or statutory instrument to be approved (however described) by the Executive, a Minister or any other entity, the day after the day it is approved.

This section is a determinative provision.