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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

2: Commencement

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"When the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 comes into effect on 26 November 2018."

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This Act starts on 26 November 2018. You need to know that some parts of the Act start earlier, on the day after it gets the Royal assent. These parts are about notices and regulations, and they include sections 53, 70, and 74 to 76.

If someone uses a power from these parts before 26 November 2018, it will only work from 26 November 2018 onwards. When someone uses this power, other laws that have not started yet must be treated as if they have started. This means any rights or responsibilities from these laws must also be treated as if they have started.

The Interpretation Act 1999 still applies to this Act, and this section does not change that.

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"What the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 is about"

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3: Purpose of this Act, or

"This law helps older people know when they must pay for their own care and how much it will cost."

2Commencement

  1. This Act comes into force on 26 November 2018.

  2. However, specified provisions, namely sections 53, 70, and 74 to 76 (notices and regulations), come into force on the day after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent.

  3. A power that is conferred by those specified provisions, and that is exercised on or after the day after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent and before 26 November 2018, may be exercised only with effect on or after 26 November 2018.

  4. If subsections (2) and (3) are to be, or have been, relied on to exercise a power,—

  5. all other enactments relevant to the power’s exercise, and that have not yet commenced, must be treated as if they had commenced; and
    1. a legal position that would be conferred or imposed by an enactment relevant to the power’s exercise, and that has not yet commenced, must be treated as if it has accrued or been imposed.

      1. This section does not affect the application of the Interpretation Act 1999 to this Act.