Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE PENALTIES ENFORCEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 178

178 Transitional provision for cancellation of enforcement order

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement of this section, the registrar had cancelled an enforcement order under previous section 57 but had not referred the matter of the offence to a Magistrates Court.

(2) On the commencement—

(a) the registrar must not refer the matter of the offence to a Magistrates Court; and

(b) new section 57 applies to the cancellation of the enforcement order as if the cancellation had happened after the commencement.

(3) In this section—

"new section 57" means section 57 as amended by the amendment Act.

"previous section 57" means section 57 as in force before the commencement of section 20 of the amendment Act .