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Wages Protection Act 1983

Schedule : Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments made to this Act on or after 1 April 2016

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"Changes to the Wages Protection Act from 1 April 2016 and how they affect you"

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You are looking at a schedule for the Wages Protection Act 1983. This schedule is about changes made to the Act on or after 1 April 2016. It explains how these changes affect you. The schedule refers to the Wages Protection Amendment Act 2016 as the 2016 Act. It says that a new section, Section 5A, only applies to deductions made after the 2016 Act started. This section applies to employment agreements made before, on, or after the 2016 Act started. The changes made by the 2016 Act do not apply to things that happened before it started. You can find more information about the 2016 Act by looking at the Wages Protection Amendment Act 2016 and the section 7 of that Act.

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"Old laws are cancelled because of new changes"

Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments made to this Act on or after 1 April 2016 Empowered by s 2A

1Interpretation

  1. In this schedule, 2016 Act means the Wages Protection Amendment Act 2016.

2Application, savings, and transitional provisions arising from 2016 Act

  1. Section 5A (as inserted by section 7 of the 2016 Act) applies only to deductions made after the commencement of that Act and, in relation to deductions made under an employment agreement, applies whether the employment agreement was made before, on, or after the commencement of that Act.

  2. The amendments made by the 2016 Act do not apply to conduct that occurred before the commencement of that Act.