Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 852

852 Notices generally

(1) Subsection (2) applies if, immediately before the commencement, a person was required under a provision of the repealed Act to give written or other notice about a particular matter under the repealed Act and had not given the notice.

(2) The person must give the notice under the provision of the new Act that deals with similar matters to the matters for which notice was required to be given under the repealed Act.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if—

(a) a person has given a written or other notice about a particular matter under the repealed Act; and

(b) on the commencement, a person who would have been required or authorised to do something under the repealed Act on receiving the notice has not yet done the thing; and

(c) a provision of the new Act deals with similar matters to the matters for which the notice was required to be given under the repealed Act and requires or authorises a person to do something on receiving notice of the matters.

(4) The requirement or authorisation under the new Act applies in relation to the person required or authorised to do the thing.