Legislation Act 2019

Interpretation and application of legislation - Revision Acts

60: Revision Act is generally to have same effect as old law

You could also call this:

"New law is written differently but works the same as the old law."

When you look at a Revision Act, you see the old law rewritten in a new way. The new provisions are meant to have the same effect as the old ones. You can think of it like a new version of a book, where the story is the same but the words are different.

The Revision Act's provisions are the same as the old law, just written differently. They are meant to work in the same way as the old law did.

This rule is affected by what is said in section 62, which you can read to learn more about how it works.

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Part 2Interpretation and application of legislation
Revision Acts

60Revision Act is generally to have same effect as old law

  1. A revision Act’s provisions—

  2. are the provisions of the old law in rewritten form; and
    1. are intended to have the same effect as the corresponding provisions of the old law.
      1. This section is subject to section 62.

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