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Legislation Act 2019

Drafting and publishing of legislation - Correcting errors and making other editorial changes

90: When changes take effect

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"When changes are made to a law, they are treated as if they were already part of an earlier law."

When you make changes to a law, those changes take effect as if they were part of another law that was already in place before the changes were made. This means the changes are considered to have been made by another law that was in effect before the date the changes were made. You can find more information about this by looking at the Legislation Act 1986 which had a similar rule.

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Part 3Drafting and publishing of legislation
Correcting errors and making other editorial changes

90When changes take effect

  1. For the purposes of amendments to, incorporation of, or reference to legislation that has had changes made to it under this subpart, those changes take effect as if enacted or made expressly by other legislation having effect immediately before the date on which the changes were made.

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