Productivity Commission (Repeals, Transitional and Consequential Amendments) Act 1998

Schedule 1-Repeal of Acts

Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983

Industry Commission Act 1989

Schedule 2-Transitional provisions and consequential amendments

Part 1-Transitional provisions relating to the Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983 and the Industry Commission Act 1989

Part 2-Consequential amendments of other Acts

Biological Control Act 1984

Bounty (Computers) Act 1984

Bounty (Machine Tools and Robots) Act 1985

Development Allowance Authority Act 1992

Productivity Commission (Repeals, Transitional and Consequential Amendments) Act 1998

No. 15, 1998

An Act to repeal the Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983 and the Industry Commission Act 1989, to deal with transitional and consequential matters arising from the repeals and from the enactment of the Productivity Commission Act 1998

[Assented to 16 April 1998]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act may be cited as the Productivity Commission (Repeals, Transitional and Consequential Amendments) Act 1998.

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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-Repeal of Acts

Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983

Repeal the Act.

Industry Commission Act 1989

Repeal the Act.

Schedule 2-Transitional provisions and consequential amendments

Part 1-Transitional provisions relating to the Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983 and the Industry Commission Act 1989

In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears:

commencement day means the day on which this Act commences.

EPAC means the Economic Planning Advisory Commission.

EPAC Act means the Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983.

IC means the Industry Commission.

IC Act means the Industry Commission Act 1989.

PC means the Productivity Commission.

PC Act means the Productivity Commission Act 1998.

If the IC had begun but not completed an inquiry or report under the IC Act before commencement day, the PC may complete the inquiry or report as if it had been begun under the PC Act.

If the IC had not completed its hearings in relation to an inquiry under the IC Act before commencement day, the PC is taken to be required to hold hearings under the PC Act for the purposes of the inquiry.

If the IC had completed an inquiry under the IC Act but had not begun a report on the inquiry before commencement day, the PC may make the report as if the inquiry had been held under the PC Act.

A person who, immediately before commencement day, was a member of the staff of EPAC or the IC is taken, from commencement day, to be a member of the staff of the PC.

In any contract, agreement or arrangement, or in any other instrument, a reference to EPAC or the IC is taken to be a reference to the PC.

Subitem (1) does not apply in relation to matters that occurred before commencement day.

Money that has been appropriated under an Act for the purposes of EPAC or the IC is taken to have been appropriated for the purposes of the PC.

Subitem (1) does not apply to money that has been spent before commencement day.

The first annual report of the PC under section 10 of the PC Act must include a report on the operations of EPAC and the IC during the financial year to which the report relates.