(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 4 December 2003 |
2. Schedule 1, Part 1 | A single day to be fixed by Proclamation, subject to subsection (3) | 19 December 2003 ( s 2(1); Gazette 2003, No. S485) |
3. Schedule 1, Parts 2 and 3 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 4 December 2003 |
4. Schedule 1, Part 4 | A single day to be fixed by Proclamation, subject to subsection (3) | 19 December 2003 ( s 2(1); Gazette 2003, No. S485) |
5. Schedule 1, Parts 5, 6 and 7 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 4 December 2003 |
6. Schedule 2 | 1 December 2002 | 1 December 2002 |
7. Schedule 3, Part 1 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 4 December 2003 |
8. Schedule 3, items 4 to 7 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, subject to subsection (4) | 4 December 2003 |
9. Schedule 3, items 8 and 9 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, subject to subsection (5) | 4 December 2003 |
10. Schedule 3, Part 3 | 1 July 2003 | 1 July 2003 |
11. Schedule 3, Part 4 | The later of: (a) the start of the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; and (b) immediately after the commencement of item 62 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Legislation Amendment and Repeal (International Trade Modernisation) Act 2001 | 22 September 2004 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part of this Act. This information may be included in any published version of this Act.
(3) If a provision covered by item 2 or 4 of the table does not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.
(4) If this Act does not receive the Royal Assent before the commencement of item 39 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Legislation Amendment and Repeal (International Trade Modernisation) Act 2001 , the provisions covered by item 8 of the table do not commence at all.
(5) If this Act does not receive the Royal Assent before the commencement of item 62 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Legislation Amendment and Repeal (International Trade Modernisation) Act 2001 , the provisions covered by item 9 of the table do not commence at all.