Legislation Act 2019

Interpretation and application of legislation - Commencement of legislation

29: Power to make commencement order

You could also call this:

"Deciding when new laws start"

When you look at the power to make an Order in Council to bring legislation into force, you find it includes several things. It includes the power to choose when the legislation starts, and you can use this power more than once to change, cancel, or replace an earlier Order in Council. You can also make more than one order to start different parts of the legislation on different dates.

If a part of the legislation would affect other parts when it starts, you have the power to start it only for some of those parts. When you use this power, the part of the legislation only starts for the chosen purpose, and only the chosen parts of the legislation come into force. You can compare this to the Legislation Act 1986 to see how it works.

You can exercise the power to make an Order in Council in different ways, depending on what you need to do with the legislation.

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Part 2Interpretation and application of legislation
Commencement of legislation

29Power to make commencement order

  1. A power to make an Order in Council bringing legislation into force—

  2. includes a power to state a time of commencement on the date that is set; and
    1. is capable of being exercised more than once to amend, revoke, or replace an Order in Council made in a previous exercise of the power, so long as each re-exercise of the power takes effect before the commencement takes effect; and
      1. includes a power to make 1 or more orders setting different dates for different provisions of the legislation; and
        1. includes (if there is a provision where its commencement would otherwise operate to give effect to other parts of legislation) a power to commence the provision only for the purpose of giving effect to some, but not other, parts of that legislation.
          1. If the power referred to in subsection (1)(d) is exercised, the provision comes into force only for that purpose and only the identified parts come into force.

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