Ch 3 heading inserted by No 10 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 1 item 27, effective 5 March 2016. See note under the title of the Act.

Pt 4 heading substituted from Pt 6 heading by No 10 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 1 item 67, effective 5 March 2016. See note under the title of the Act. The heading formerly read:

Part 6 - Sunsetting of legislative instruments

S 53(1) amended by No 78 of 2018, s 3 and Sch 1 items 68-70, by inserting " (the repeal day ) " after " on a day " , substituting " under section 51 that is laid before a House of the Parliament in accordance with section 38 " for " laid before a House of the Parliament under section 51 " in para (a)(i) and substituting " before the repeal day " for " within 6 months after the copy or list is laid before the House " in para (b), effective 25 August 2018 and applicable in relation to a legislative instrument, where the copy of the certificate, or the list, is laid before a House of the Parliament before, on or after 25 August 2018

S 53 substituted by No 135 of 2012, s 3 and Sch 1 item 23, effective 23 September 2012. S 53 formerly read:

SECTION 53 Resolution that instruments continue in force  
(1)
Either House of the Parliament may, by resolution passed within 6 months after:

(a) the laying before that House, under subsection 52(2) , of a list; or

(b) the laying before that House, under subsection 51(2) , of a copy of a certificate issued under paragraph 51(1) (c);

indicate the legislative instruments and provisions of legislative instruments on that list or referred to in that certificate ( selected instruments or provisions ) that that House considers should continue in force.

(2)
A selected instrument or provision continues in force, subject to any later instrument amending or repealing it, as if it had been remade on the date on which if the resolution had not been passed, it would cease to be in force.