Legislation Act 2003

Chapter 3 - Legislative instruments and notifiable instruments  

Part 4 - Sunsetting of legislative instruments  

SECTION 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sunset-altering instrument ) declare that 2 or more other legislative instruments (the instruments to be reviewed ) are repealed by this section on a single specified day, if he or she is satisfied, on application by the rule-maker of the instruments to be reviewed, that: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(i) would, apart from this section, be repealed by section 50 or 51 ; and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 or 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(b) must be not more than 5 years after the earliest day on which any of the instruments to be reviewed would be repealed by section 50 or 51 apart from this section; and

(c) may be the same as, or different from, any of the days on which any of the instruments to be reviewed would be repealed by section 50 or 51 apart from this section.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 2 (parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments), and to section 53 operating on the instruments to be reviewed).

(4)    

The explanatory statement for the sunset-altering instrument must include a statement of the reasons for the making of the instrument.