Legislation Act 2019

Interpretation and application of legislation - Amendment and repeal

37: How to apply references to new legislation that is not yet in force

You could also call this:

"How to use references to new laws that haven't started yet"

When you look at new laws that are not yet in force, you need to understand how to apply references to them. If a new law is going to replace or correspond to an existing law, but it is not yet in force, you have to consider this. The new law is not yet in force, so you need to think about the existing law it will replace or correspond to.

When you see a reference to the new law in other legislation, you should think of it as a reference to the existing law, or the part of the existing law that corresponds to the new law. This is how you apply the reference until the new law comes into force. You do this by looking at the whole or the corresponding part of the existing law.

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Part 2Interpretation and application of legislation
Amendment and repeal

37How to apply references to new legislation that is not yet in force

  1. This section applies if legislation (new legislation)—

  2. is to replace (with or without modification), or is to correspond to, existing legislation; and
    1. is not yet in force.
      1. A reference in legislation to the new legislation is, until that new legislation comes into force, a reference to the whole or the corresponding part of the existing legislation.