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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers, transitional provisions, and review provision - Transitional provisions

356: Regulations providing for transitional matters

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"Rules to help when the law changes"

The Governor-General can make regulations to help when this Act comes into force. You might see some changes to how the law works during a special time called a transitional period. The Governor-General can decide what rules apply or do not apply during this time.

The Governor-General can also make regulations to help bring other regulations into force under this Act. This means they can create rules to make it easier for other laws to start working.

The regulations can say what some words mean, or which old laws still apply, during the transitional period. They can also cover other things that need to happen for the new law to work smoothly.

These special regulations cannot be made or stay in force after 1 April 2017. When the Governor-General makes these regulations, they are a type of secondary legislation, and you can learn more about what that means by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 5Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions
Regulation-making powers, transitional provisions, and review provision: Transitional provisions

356Regulations providing for transitional matters

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations—

  2. providing transitional and savings provisions concerning the coming into force of this Act, which may be in addition to or in place of the transitional and savings provisions of this Part:
    1. to facilitate the bringing into force of any regulations under this Act:
      1. providing that subject to such conditions as are specified in the regulations, during a specified transitional period,—
        1. specified provisions of this Act (including definitions) do not apply:
          1. specified terms have the meanings given to them by the regulations:
            1. specified provisions repealed or amended by this Act are to continue to apply:
            2. providing for any other matters necessary for facilitating or ensuring an orderly transition from the provisions of any enactments replaced by this Act to the provisions of this Act.

              1. No regulations made under this section may be made, or continue in force, after 1 April 2017.

              2. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

              Notes
              • Section 356(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).