Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting Measures) Act 2012 (135 of 2012)

Schedule 1   Legislative Instruments Act 2003

Part 2   Date of sunsetting

18   After section 51

Insert:

51A Attorney-General may align sunsetting of instruments to be reviewed together

(1) The Attorney-General may by legislative instrument (the sunset-altering instrument ) declare that 2 or more other legislative instruments (the instruments to be reviewed ) are repealed by this section on a single specified day, if he or she is satisfied, on application by the rule-maker of the instruments to be reviewed, that:

(a) all the instruments to be reviewed:

(i) would, apart from this section, be repealed by section 50 or 51; and

(ii) are or will be the subject of a single review; and

(b) the making of the declaration will facilitate the undertaking of the review and the implementation of its findings.

(2) The day specified in the sunset-altering instrument:

(a) must be 1 April or 1 October of a year; and

(b) must be not more than 5 years after the earliest day on which any of the instruments to be reviewed would be repealed by section 50 or 51 apart from this section; and

(c) may be the same as, or different from, any of the days on which any of the instruments to be reviewed would be repealed by section 50 or 51 apart from this section.

(3) The sunset-altering instrument has effect according to its terms (subject to Part 5, and to section 53 operating on the instruments to be reviewed).