State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999

Subsection (2) applies if, before the commencement of this section—

a magistrate gave particulars of a relevant order to the court registrar for the purpose of registering the prescribed particulars, in relation to the unpaid amount payable under the order, under section 34; or

a court registrar purported, under section 34, to give to SPER, for registration, the prescribed particulars in relation to the unpaid amount payable under the order.

The giving of the particulars by the magistrate and the giving of the prescribed particulars by the court registrar is, and always has been, lawful.

Subsection (4) applies if, before the commencement of this section—

the registrar purportedly registered, under section 34, prescribed particulars in relation to the unpaid amount payable under a relevant order; or

a person took action purportedly under the Act to enforce a relevant order.

The registration of the prescribed particulars, and the action taken, is as valid, and always has been as valid, as if, at the time the relevant order was made, it was an order to which section 34 applied.

In this section—