Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS ACT 1987 No. 92 of 1987 - SECT 17

17. (1) Section 97 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from subsection (1) all the words from and including "The
Board" to and including "namely:-" and substituting the following:

"The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act,
prescribing matters:

   (aa) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

   (ab) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving
        effect to this Act;
and in particular for the following:";

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (1) (q) "Board" and substituting
        "Commissioner";

   (c)  by omitting from paragraph (1) (r) "Board" and substituting
        "Commissioner"; and

   (d)  by omitting subsection (2).

(2) All regulations in force under the Principal Act immediately before
commencement continue in force on and after that date except in so far as they
are inconsistent with the amended Act, but any such regulations may be amended
or repealed by regulations made under the amended Act.

(3) In this section:

"amended Act" means the Principal Act as amended by this Act and as in force
at any time after commencement;

"commencement" means the commencement of this section.