Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 2

2. (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act
receives the Royal Assent.*

(2) Section 55 shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation, being a date not earlier than the date on which the Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as revised at Stockholm
on 14 July 1967 enters into force for Australia.

(3) Subject to sub-section (4), the remaining provisions of this Act shall
come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

(4) Sub-sections 45 (1) and (2), except so far as they relate to contracts,
arrangements and understandings referred to in sub-section 88 (2), and
sub-sections 47 (1) and 49 (1), shall not come into operation until the
expiration of 4 months after the date fixed under sub-section (3).

(5) A reference in sub-section 45 (1) or (2) to the commencement of the
sub-section concerned shall be read-

   (a)  for the purposes of the application of the sub-section concerned in
        relation to a contract, arrangement or understanding referred to in
        sub-section 88 (2)-as a reference to the date fixed under sub-section
        (3) of this section; and

   (b)  for the purposes of the application of the sub-section concerned in
        relation to any other contract, arrangement or understanding-as a
        reference to the expiration of the period referred to in sub-section
        (4) of this section.

(6) The power of the Governor-General to make appointments of members of the
Commission or to make regulations under this Act may be exercised at any time
after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent but any appointment
or regulation so made shall not take effect until the date fixed under
sub-section (3).