Victorian Current Acts

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW AND FAIR TRADING ACT 2012 - SCHEDULE 4

Schedule 4—Savings and transitional provisions

Section 237

        1     Definitions

In this Schedule—

"new Act" means the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 ;

"old Act" means the Fair Trading Act 1999 as in force immediately before the day on which section 233 of the new Act comes into operation.

        2     General transitional provisions

    (1)     This Schedule does not affect or take away from the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 .

    (2)     Without limiting subclause (1), in declaring that certain provisions of the new Act are to be treated as re-enacting with modifications certain provisions of the old Act, this Schedule must not be taken—

        (a)     to be an exhaustive list of the provisions of the old Act re-enacted by the new Act; or

        (b)     to limit the operation of any provision of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 relating to the re-enactment.

    (3)     This Schedule applies despite anything to the contrary in any other provision of the new Act.

Note

See in particular sections 14 and 16 of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 .

        3     Superseded references

    (1)     On and from the commencement day, a reference to the old Act in any Act (other than this Act), or in any instrument made under any Act or in any other document of any kind, must be read as a reference to the new Act unless the context otherwise requires.

    (2)     In this clause, "commencement day" means the day on which section 233 of the new Act comes into operation.

        4     Re-enacted provisions

A provision or provisions of the old Act specified in Column 1 of the Table is to be taken to be re‑enacted (with modifications) by the provision or provisions of the new Act appearing opposite in Column 2 of the Table.

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Section 9

Section 10

Section 11

Section 12

Section 13

Section 14

Section 15

Section 16

Section 17

Section 18

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Section 9

Section 10

Section 11

Section 12

Section 13

Section 14

Section 15

Section 16

Section 17

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 19

Section 20

Section 21

Section 22

Section 32FA

Section 32N

Section 32NA

Section 32OA

Section 32P

Section 32PA

Section 32Q

Section 32QA

Section 32R

Section 32RA

Section 32SA

Section 32T

Section 32TA

Section 32ZF

Section 32ZG

Section 32ZH

Section 32ZI

Section 32ZJ

Section 32ZK

Section 32ZL

Section 32ZM

Section 32ZN

Section 32ZO

Section 18

Section 19

Section 20

Section 21

Section 31

Section 22

Section 23

Section 24

Section 25

Section 26

Section 27

Section 28

Section 29

Section 30

Section 32

Section 33

Section 34

Section 35

Section 36

Section 37

Section 38

Section 39

Section 40

Section 41

Section 42

Section 43

Section 44

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 93AB

Section 93AC

Section 93AD

Section 93AE

Section 93AF

Section 93AG

Section 93AH

Section 93AI

Section 93AJ

Section 93AK

Section 93AL

Section 93AM

Section 93AN

Section 93AO

Section 93AP

Section 93AQ

Section 93AR

Section 93AS

Section 93AT

Section 93B

Section 93C

Section 93D

Section 93F

Section 93G

Section 93H

Section 93I

Section 93J

Section 81

Section 82

Section 83

Section 84

Section 85

Section 86

Section 87

Section 88

Section 89

Section 90

Section 91

Section 92

Section 93

Section 94

Section 95

Section 96

Section 97

Section 98

Section 99

Section 78

Section 79

Section 80

Section 47

Section 48

Section 49

Section 50

Section 51

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 93K

Section 93L

Section 93M

Section 93N

Section 94

Section 95

Section 96

Section 97

Section 98

Section 99

Section 100(1)

Section 100(2)

Section 101

Section 102

Section 102B

Section 102C

Section 102D

Section 102E

Section 103

Section 104

Section 105

Section 106

Section 106AA

Section 106AB

Section 106B

Section 106D

Section 106E

Section 52

Section 53

Section 45

Section 46

Section 138

Section 139

Section 140

Section 141

Section 107

Section 108

Section 109

Section 110

Section 111

Section 112

Section 134

Section 135

Section 136

Section 137

Section 113

Section 114

Section 115

Section 116

Section 117

Section 118

Section 119

Section 120

Section 121

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 106F

Section 106G

Section 106H

Section 106HA

Section 106I

Section 106J

Section 106K

Section 106L

Section 106M

Section 106N

Section 106O

Section 106P

Section 107

Section 107A

Section 108

Section 109

Section 110

Section 111

Section 112

Section 112A

Section 112B

Section 113

Section 113A

Section 114

Section 115

Section 116

Section 117(1) to (3)

Section 122

Section 123

Section 124

Section 125

Section 126

Section 127

Section 128

Section 129

Section 130

Section 131

Section 132

Section 133

Section 182

Section 183

Section 184

Section 185

Section 186

Section 187

Section 188

Section 189

Section 190

Section 191

Section 192

Section 142

Section 143

Section 144

Section 145

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 117(4)

Section 117(5) to (7)

Section 118

Section 119(1)

Section 119(2)

Section 119(3) to (6)

Section 120

Section 121(1)

Section 121(2) to (6)

Section 121A

Section 122

Section 123

Section 124

Section 125

Section 126

Section 126A

Section 126B(1) and (2)

Section 126B(3) and (4)

Section 126B(5) and (6)

Section 127

Section 128

Section 129

Section 129A

Section 130

Section 131

Section 132

Section 133

Section 146

Section 147

Section 148

Section 149

Section 150

Section 151

Section 152

Section 153

Section 154

Section 155

Sections 157 and 158

Section 159

Section 160

Section 161

Section 162

Section 156

Section 163

Section 164

Section 165

Section 166

Section 167

Section 168

Section 174

Section 175

Section 177

Section 169

Section 170

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 134

Section 135

Section 136

Section 137

Section 138

Section 139

Section 140

Section 141

Section 142

Section 142A

Section 143

Section 144

Section 145

Section 146

Section 147

Section 148

Section 149

Section 149A

Section 150

Section 151

Section 151A

Section 151B

Section 151C

Section 152

Section 152A

Section 153

Section 153A

Section 171

Section 172

Section 173

Section 176

Section 178

Section 179

Section 180

Section 181

Section 193

Section 194

Section 195

Section 196

Section 197

Section 198

Section 199

Section 200

Section 201

Section 202

Section 203

Section 204

Section 205

Section 206

Section 207

Section 208

Section 209

Section 210

Section 211

Old Act provision

New Act provision

Section 154

Section 155

Section 156

Section 157

Section 158

Section 159

Section 160

Section 160A

Section 160B

Section 160C

Section 160D

Section 160E

Section 160F

Section 160G

Section 160H

Section 161A

Section 162A

Section 163A

Section 163B

Section 164

Section 165

Schedule 1A

Section 212

Section 213

Section 214

Section 215

Section 216

Section 217

Section 218

Section 219

Section 220

Section 221

Section 222

Section 223

Section 224

Section 225

Section 226

Section 227

Section 228

Section 229

Section 230

Section 231

Section 232

Schedule 2

        5     Savings—Fair Trading (Information Standard) (Australian Builders Plate Standard) Regulations 2009

Despite the repeal of sections 47 and 165(1)(a) of the Fair Trading Act 1999 by the Fair Trading Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act 2010 , the Fair Trading (Information Standard) (Australian Builders Plate Standard) Regulations 2009—

        (a)     subject to paragraph (b), continue in operation and may be amended or revoked as if those sections remained in force; and

        (b)     are revoked on the coming into operation of section 102 of the Marine Safety Act 2010 .

        6     Transitional provisions for repeal of Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act 1961

    (1)     In this clause—

"commencement day" means the day on which section 234 of the new Act comes into operation;

"former Act" means the Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act 1961 as in force immediately before the commencement day.

    (2)     This clause applies despite section 56(1) and the repeal of the former Act.

    (3)     If, under section 3 of the former Act, a person has given notice of an intention to sell goods, the former Act continues to apply to those goods.

    (4)     If section 3A or 3B of the former Act applies to uncollected goods, the receiver may elect to dispose of those goods in accordance with Part 4.2 of this Act.

    (5)     Despite the repeal of the former Act, a person who has disposed of uncollected goods under that Act is still required to keep the records required by section 5 of that Act until the expiry of the period specified in that section in relation to those goods.

    (6)     Despite the repeal of the former Act, if an action to reopen a transaction under section 13 of that Act began before the commencement day that section will continue to apply to that action.

        7     Transitional provision for Part 4.2

    (1)     For the purposes of section 63, a certificate issued under section 24 of the Chattel Securities Act 1987 is taken to be a written search result under section 170(2)(b) of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 of the Commonwealth.

    (2)     Subclause (1) expires on the commencement of section 5 of the Personal Property Securities (Statute Law Revision and Implementation) Act 2010 . [1]

        8     Transitional provision for repeal of Carriers and Innkeepers Act 1958

    (1)     A notice in accordance with the Fourth Schedule to the Carriers and Innkeepers Act 1958 as in force immediately before the commencement day, displayed in accordance with Part 5.2 of this Act, is taken, for a period of one month after the commencement day, to be the notice set out in Schedule 3 to this Act.

    (2)     In this clause, "commencement day" means the day on which section 235 of the new Act comes into operation.

        9     Transitional provision for repeal of Part IVA of Landlord and Tenant Act 1958

    (1)     Part IVA of the Landlord and Tenant
Act 1958 continues to apply at the end or other determination of a lease of premises to which that Part applied immediately before the commencement day.

    (2)     In this clause, "commencement day" means the day on which section 236 of the new Act comes into operation.



AustLII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback