Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) (AMENDMENT) ACT 1999 (NO. 91 OF 1999) - SECT 7

Renumbering— Criminal Injuries Compensation Act

(1)     The provisions of the Principal Act (as in force immediately before the day on which this section commences), being the provisions listed in column 1 of the following table, are renumbered in accordance with the following table:

Existing provision	Renumbered provision
Part III	Part V
Section 34A	Section 65
Section 34B	Section 66
Section 34C	Section 67
Section 34D	Section 68
Section 34E	Section 69
Section 34F	Section 70
Part IV	Part VI
Section 35	Section 71
Section 36	Section 73

(2)     A reference in this Act to a provision of the Principal Act that is renumbered by this section (other than in text inserted by this Act into the Principal Act or another Act) is to be taken to be a reference to that provision as numbered in the Principal Act immediately before the day on which this section commences.

(3)     A reference to a provision of the Principal Act that has been renumbered by this section, being a reference—

        (a)     in a provision of the Principal Act as in force immediately before the day on which this section commences, whether or not the latter provision has commenced;

        (b)     in a provision of another law of the Territory made before the day on which this section commences, whether or not the latter provision has commenced; or

        (c)     in any instrument or document;

shall (except as regards the operation of the provision before it was renumbered) be construed as a reference to that provision as so renumbered.