Decimal Currency Act 1965

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or statutory instrument contained the Governor may, by regulation under this Act, amend a statutory instrument by substituting references to amounts of money in terms of the new currency for any references in that statutory instrument to amounts of money in terms of the old currency calculated on the basis of the equivalents specified in subsection (4) of section 8 of the Commonwealth Currency Act or, if the Governor thinks fit, on the basis so far as concerns pence of the equivalents specified in subsection (3) of section 11 of that Act and for any purpose ancillary to or consequent upon any such substitution and every such amendment shall take effect on a day specified in the regulation not being a day earlier than the 14th day of February, 1966.

Section 38 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1915 shall not apply to any regulation made under this section and any such regulation may be made without regard to any method prescribed by law for the amendment of the statutory instrument concerned and notwithstanding that such statutory instrument may be incapable of amendment apart from this section and any amendment made pursuant to this section shall not affect the scope or period of operation of the statutory instrument amended thereby or be the subject of any appeal or disallowance or similar procedure and every statutory instrument so amended shall in all other respects take effect subject to the amendment from the day on which the regulation takes effect.