Part IPreliminary

An Act to enact certain transitional provisions and make certain amendments in consequence of the enactment of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

Part I—Preliminary

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1983.

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1 and 2 and subsection 15(1) shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (2) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on the day fixed under subsection 2(2) of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983.

Part II—Transitional Provisions

3 Interpretation

Expressions used in this Part have, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meanings as those expressions have in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983.

4 Extension to external Territories

This Part extends to all the external Territories.

5 Application

This Part has effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983.

6 Members of Commission cease to hold office

On the commencing day, the Chairman, the Vice‑Chairman and the other Commissioners of the Australian Broadcasting Commission who held office immediately before that day cease to hold office, but the corporate identity of the body corporate referred to in subsection 5(1) of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 is preserved.

7 References to Commission in instruments, &c.

A reference to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in any law of a Territory, or in any contract, award or other instrument to which the Australian Broadcasting Commission was a party, shall, except in relation to matters that occurred before the commencing day, be construed as a reference to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

8 Property, powers, liabilities, &c.

The alteration of the name and constitution of the Australian Broadcasting Commission resulting from section 5 of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 does not affect any property, powers, rights, liabilities or obligations of the body corporate continued in existence by that section.

10 Judicial notice

All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the imprint of the seal of the Australian Broadcasting Commission appearing on a document that was executed before the commencing day and shall presume that the document was duly sealed.

11 Officers and employees

Any person who was an officer (including an officer on probation) or a temporary employee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission immediately before the commencing day by virtue of his having been appointed or engaged under subsection 43(2) of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 continues, subject to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, as an officer or temporary employee, as the case may be, of the Corporation as if he had been appointed or engaged under section 33 of that last‑mentioned Act.