Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Defence Force) Act 2017 (108 of 2017)

Schedule 1   Enactment and amendment of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

Part 2   Main amendments of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

Division 2   Application and transitional provisions

68   Transitional rules

(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to the amendments or repeals made by this Act.

(2) However, to avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:

(a) create an offence or civil penalty;

(b) provide powers of:

(i) arrest or detention; or

(ii) entry, search or seizure;

(c) impose a tax;

(d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act;

(e) directly amend the text of this Act.

(3) This Act (other than subitem (2)) does not limit the rules that may be made for the purposes of subitem (1).