(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Subject to subsections (7) and (8), items 5, 6 and 7 of Schedule 1 and the items of Parts 6 and 8 of Schedule 2 commence on a day or days to be fixed by Proclamation.
(3) Items 12, 13, 14, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 44, 46, 47, 48, 55 and 57 of Schedule 1, items 90, 91 and 101 of Schedule 2, and items 2 and 6 to 11 of Schedule 3 commence 28 days after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(4) Part 3 of Schedule 2 commences immediately after the end of the period of 6 months after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(5) Part 10 of Schedule 2 commences on 1 July 2002 .
(6) Part 11 of Schedule 2 commences at whichever of the following times applies:
(a) if Parts 4 to 10 of the Act that establishes the Administrative Review Tribunal commence before, or at the same time as, item 26 of Schedule 2 to this Act--immediately after the commencement of that item;
(b) if Parts 4 to 10 of the Act that establishes the Administrative Review Tribunal commence after item 26 of Schedule 2 to this Act--the time when Parts 4 to 10 of the Act that establishes the Administrative Review Tribunal commence.
Note: The short title of the Act that establishes the Administrative Review Tribunal is either the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2000 or the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2001 .
(7) Subject to subsection (8), if an item of this Act referred to in subsection (2) does not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, that item commences on the first day after the end of that period.
(8) If items 47 and 48 of Schedule 2 do not commence before 1 July 2002 , they are taken to have been repealed on that day.