Building Services (Registration) Act 2011

If there is no sufficient provision in this Part for dealing with a transitional matter, regulations under this Act may prescribe all matters that are required or necessary or convenient to be prescribed in relation to that matter.

In subsection (1) —

Regulations made under subsection (1) may provide that specific provisions of any written law —

do not apply to or in relation to any matter; or

apply with specific modifications to or in relation to any matter.

If regulations made under subsection (1) provide that a specified state of affairs is to be taken to have existed, or not to have existed, on and from a day that is earlier than the day on which the regulations are published in the Gazette but not earlier than commencement day, the regulations have effect according to their terms.

In subsection (4) —

If regulations contain a provision referred to in subsection (4), the provision does not operate so as —

to affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the regulations were published in the Gazette; or

to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the regulations were published in the Gazette.