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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

General provisions

6: Interpretation: references to, and using as guide, old law

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"Understanding old laws in the new Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act"

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When you see a reference to old laws, like sections 69FA and 132D of the Social Security Act 1964, you should interpret it as a reference to the corresponding parts of this Act. You can use the old law as a guide to understand the new law, but only if the new law is unclear or does not make sense. The new law is the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 and you can find more information about it on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 1General provisions

6Interpretation: references to, and using as guide, old law

  1. A reference in an enactment or a document to all or any of the provisions of sections 69FA and 132D, Part 4, and Schedules 27 and 30 of the Social Security Act 1964 (the former enactments) is to be interpreted as a reference to, or to the corresponding provisions of, this Act and Schedules 2 and 3, to the extent necessary to reflect sensibly the intent of the enactment or document.

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to the consequential amendments in Schedule 10 of the Social Security Act 2018.

  3. The provisions of this Act and Schedules 2 and 3—

  4. are the provisions of the former enactments in rewritten form; and
    1. are intended to have the same effect as the corresponding provisions of the former enactments.

      1. Subsection (3) is subject to subsections (5) and (6) and section 7.

      2. If the meaning of an enactment in this Act or Schedule 2 or 3 that comes into force on 26 November 2018 (the new law) is unclear or gives rise to absurdity, the wording of a law that is repealed by section 77(1) and that corresponds to the new law (the old law) must be used to ascertain the meaning of the new law.

      3. Subsections (3) to (5) do not apply, if a new law is affected by an amendment made after the beginning of 26 November 2018, to that new law after the amendment commences.

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