Transitional provisions (1999 amendments)
52 Transitional provisions (1999 amendments)
The repeal of section 8 by section 5 of the Public Prosecutions (Amendment) Act 1999 does not affect the pension entitlements immediately before the commencement of this subsection of the Director and his or her spouse and children.
The repeal of section 46 by section 7 of the Public Prosecutions (Amendment) Act 1999 does not affect any application made before the commencement of this subsection to a court for the punishment of a person for a contempt of court and that application may be dealt with in all respects as if section 46 had not been repealed.
Subject to Part IIIA of the Constitution Act 1975, the person holding office as Director of Public Prosecutions under this Act immediately before the commencement of section 10 of the Public Prosecutions (Amendment) Act 1999 continues to hold office as Director of Public Prosecutions after that commencement for the balance of his term of appointment, on the same terms and conditions as those on which he held office before that commencement, as if he had been appointed under section 87AB of the Constitution Act 1975.
The office of Director of Public Prosecutions under Part IIIA of the Constitution Act 1975 must be taken to be the same office as the office of Director of Public Prosecutions under this Act.
S. 53 repealed by No. 2/1998 s. 10(1), new s. 53 inserted by No. 4/2004 s. 4.
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