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Valuers Bill

Preliminary provisions

4: Revision Act

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"A law that updates old rules with some changes"

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This proposed law is a revision Act. It aims to have the same effect as the old law, with some exceptions. You can find where the old law's provisions are in this new law by looking at Schedule 2. Schedule 3 shows the parts of this law that are meant to change the old law. You can also check section 62 of the Legislation Act 2019 for more information on how this law changes the old law. The Legislation Act 2019 has rules about how revision Acts work. This proposed law follows those rules. It tells you what is changing and what is staying the same.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

4Revision Act

  1. This is a revision Act for the purposes of sections 59 to 62 of the Legislation Act 2019 (which provide that a revision Act’s provisions are intended to have the same effect as the corresponding provisions of the old law, subject to certain exceptions).

  2. Schedule 2 sets out where the corresponding provisions of the Valuers Act 1948 can be found in this Act on its commencement. The purpose of the schedule is to assist readers. It is not a definitive or ongoing guide to how the provisions correspond.

  3. Schedule 3 sets out provisions of this Act that are, for the purposes of section 62(a) of the Legislation Act 2019, expressly provided by this Act to be intended to change the effect of the old law. This includes changes authorised under section 96(3) of the Legislation Act 2019.

  4. See also section 62(b) and (c) of that Act (which sets out other situations where provisions of this Act change the effect of the old law).