Child Care Services Act 2007

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

In subsection (1) —

Regulations referred to in subsection (1) may provide that a specified provision of this Act does not apply, or applies with specified modifications, to or in relation to any matter.

If regulations referred to in 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 the commencement of the relevant provision of the Child Care Services Amendment Act 2011, the regulations have effect according to their terms.

In subsections (3) and (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, an authority of the State or a local government), 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, an authority of the State or a local government), in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the regulations were published in the Gazette.