(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 | 3 June 2003 |
2. Schedule 1, items 1 to 7 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
2A. Schedule 1, item 7A | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
2B. Schedule 1, items 7B to 7F | 1 March 2003 | 1 March 2003 |
3. Schedule 1, item 8 | Immediately after the commencement of section 6 of the Crimes Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989 | 17 July 1990 |
4. Schedule 1, item 9 | Immediately after the commencement of section 9 of the Crimes Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989 | 17 July 1990 |
4A. Schedule 2, item 1AA | Immediately after the commencement of section 2 of the Australian Crime Commission Establishment Act 2002 | 10 December 2002 |
5. Schedule 2, item 1 | Immediately after the commencement of the Witness Protection Act 1994 | 18 April 1995 |
5A. Schedule 2, item 1A | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
5B. Schedule 2, items 1B to 1F | 1 January 2003 | 1 January 2003 |
6. Schedule 2, items 2 to 4B | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
7. Schedule 2, items 5 and 6 | Immediately after the Crimes Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989 received the Royal Assent | 17 January 1990 |
8. Schedule 2, items 6A to 13 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
9. Schedule 2, item 14 | Immediately after the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994 received the Royal Assent | 28 November 1994 |
10. Schedule 2, items 15 and 16 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
10A. Schedule 2, items 16A to 16E | 1 January 2003 | 1 January 2003 |
11. Schedule 2, item 17 | Immediately after the Retirement Savings Accounts (Consequential Amendments) Act 1997 received the Royal Assent | 28 May 1997 |
11A. Schedule 2, items 18 to 22 | A single day to be fixed by Proclamation, subject to subsection (3) | 3 December 2003 |
12. Schedule 3, items 1 to 4 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
13. Schedule 3, item 5 | Immediately after the Crimes (Search Warrants and Powers of Arrest) Amendment Act 1994 received the Royal Assent | 30 May 199 4 |
14. Schedule 3, item 6 | Immediately after the Crimes Amendment (Controlled Operations) Act 1996 received the Royal Assent | 8 July 1996 |
15. Schedule 3, items 7 to 14 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
16. Schedule 3, item 15 | Immediately after the amendment of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 by the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1992 is taken to have commenced | 1 November 1991 |
17. Schedule 3, item 16 | Immediately after the commencement of the Crimes (Search Warrants and Powers of Arrest) Amendment Act 1994 | 30 November 1994 |
18. Schedule 3, item 17 | Immediately after the commencement of the Crimes Amendment (Age Determination) Act 2001 | 4 June 2001 |
19. Schedule 3, items 18 to 29 | Immediately after the commencement of item 1 of Schedule 1 to the Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 1998 | 23 January 1999 |
20. Schedule 3, item 30 | Immediately after the commencement of item 28 of Schedule 4 to the Customs, Excise and Bounty Legislation Amendment Act 1995 | 1 July 1995 |
21. Schedule 3, items 31 and 32 | Immediately after the commencement of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 | 16 July 2000 |
22. Schedule 3, item 33 | Immediately after the commencement of item 1 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Laws Amendment (Excise Arrangements) Act 2001 | 4 May 2001 |
23. Schedule 3, item 34 | Immediately after the commencement of item 16 of Schedule 3 to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999 | 31 March 1999 |
24. Schedule 3, item 35 | Immediately after the commencement of item 221 of Schedule 1 to the Quarantine Amendment Act 1999 | 23 June 2000 |
25. Schedule 3, items 36 to 40 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
26. Schedule 3, item 41 | Immediately after the Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 1998 received the Royal Assent | 23 July 1998 |
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 11A 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.