Commonwealth Numbered Acts

EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1995 No. 3 of 1995 - SECT 2

2.(1) This Part and Parts 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act
receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 15 of this Act commences on the day on which section 160 of the
Evidence Act 1995 commences.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, subsection 16(1) commences on a
day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(4) A Proclamation is not to be made under subsection (3) of this section
until the law of each State and the law of the Northern Territory have been
amended to the effect that the provisions of the Evidence Act 1995 referred to
in subsection 16(1) of this Act apply, for the purposes of the ASC Law, as a
law of that State or the Northern Territory (as the case requires).

(5) Subsection 16(2) commences on the day on which the provisions of Part IIIA
of the Evidence Act 1905 are repealed under subsection 3(1) of this Act.

(6) Section 17 of this Act commences:

   (a)  on the day on which section 114 of the Evidence Act 1995 commences; or

   (b)  on a day fixed by Proclamation; whichever is earlier.

(7) Section 18 of this Act commences:

   (a)  on the day on which section 115 of the Evidence Act 1995 commences; or

   (b)  on a day fixed by Proclamation; whichever is earlier.

(8) Section 19 of this Act commences on the day on which section 139 of the
Evidence Act 1995 commences.

(9) Section 20 of this Act commences on the day on which section 85 of the
Evidence Act 1995 commences.

(10) Sections 21, 23 and 24 of this Act commence on the day on which section 
21 of the Evidence Act 1995 commences.

(11) Section 22 of this Act commences on the day on which those provisions of
Part VA of the Evidence Act 1905 that may be repealed under subsection 3(1) of
this Act are so repealed.

(12) Sections 25 and 26 of this Act commence on the day on which section 3 of
the Evidence Act 1995 commences.

(13) Section 27 of this Act and the Schedule to this Act commence:

   (a)  on the day on which sections 153 and 155 of the Evidence Act 1995
        commence; or

   (b)  if those sections commence on different days-the first day on which
        both of those sections are in force.