Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (No. 2) 1985No. 193, 1985 - SECT 2

2. <(1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the
 day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 7 of this Act and the amendment of section 41 of the Bankruptcy 
Act 1966 made by this Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by
Proclamation.

(3) The amendment of the Banks (Shareholdings) Amendment Act 1985 made by this
Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 22 May 1985.

(4) The amendment of the Building Industry Act 1985 made by this Act shall be
deemed to have come into operation on 26 August 1985.

(5) The amendments of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 made by this Act
shall come into operation on the day fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of
sub-section 2 (2) of the Australian Citizenship Amendment Act 1984.

(6) Section 8 of this Act and the amendments of section 18A, and of
sub-section 20AB (1), of the Crimes Act 1914 made by this Act shall come into
operation immediately after the amendment of section 2 of the
Crimes Amendment  Act 1982 made by this Act comes into operation.

(7) The amendments of the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 made by this Act (other
than the amendment of section 2 of that Act) shall come into operation
immediately after the amendment of section 2 of that Act made by this Act
comes into operation.

(8) Notwithstanding sub-section 2 (1) of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act (No. <1) 1985, the amendments of the Insurance Contracts Act
 1984 made by the first-mentioned Act and the amendment
of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 made by this Act shall come into operation
on the day on which the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 comes into operation.

(9) The following amendments of the Patents Act 1952 made by this Act:

   (a)  the amendments of sections 35, 41 and 177;

   (b)  the amendment inserting sub-section (1B) in section 54A, shall come
        into operation on -

   (c)  the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the
        Royal Assent; or

   (d)  the day fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of sub-section 2 (11)
        of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. <2) 1983, whichever is the
 later.

(10) The following amendments of the Patents Act 1952 made by this Act:

   (a)  the amendments of sections 40, 45, 45A, 54B, 55, 58C and 58E;

   (b)  the amendment inserting sub-section (1A) in section 54A;

   (c)  the amendment inserting section 87, shall come into operation on -

   (d)  the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the
        Royal Assent; or

   (e)  the date of commencement of the Patents Amendment Act 1984, whichever
        is the later.

(11) The amendment of Schedule 4 to the Public Service Reform Act 1984 made by
this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1984.

(12) The amendment of section 41 of the Shipping Registration Act 1981 made by
this Act shall come into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into
operation, as the case may be, immediately after the commencement of section 
15 of the Shipping Registration Amendment Act 1984.

(13) The amendments of paragraphs 47C (a) and (b) of the Shipping 
Registration Act 1981 made by this Act shall come into operation, or shall be
deemed to have come into operation, as the case may be, immediately after the
commencement of section 18 of the Shipping Registration Amendment Act 1984.

(14) The amendments of sub-sections 74 (1) and (2) of the Shipping 
Registration Act 1981 made by this Act shall come into operation, or shall be
deemed to have come into operation, as the case may be, immediately after the
commencement of section 23 of the Shipping Registration Amendment Act 1984.

(15) The amendments of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No.  1)
1985 made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation -

   (a)  in the case of the amendment made to sub-section 2 (29) - on the day
        on which that Act received the Royal Assent; and

   (b)  in the case of the other amendments - on the twenty-eighth day after
        the day on which that Act received the Royal Assent.