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Corporations (South Australia) Act 1990
Part 2The Corporations Law, and the Corporations Regulations, of South Australia
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Part 2—The Corporations Law, and the Corporations Regulations, of South Australia
7—Application in South Australia of the Corporations Law
The Corporations Law set out in section 82 of the Corporations Act as in force immediately before the repeal of that section—
(a) applies as a law of South Australia; and
(b) as so applying, may be referred to as the Corporations Law of South Australia.
8—Application of regulations
(1) The regulations in force immediately before the repeal of the Corporations Act under section 22 of that Act—
(a) apply as regulations in force for the purposes of the Corporations Law of South Australia; and
(b) as so applying, may be referred to as the Corporations Regulations of South Australia.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, where regulations under section 22 of the Corporations Act take effect from a specified day that is earlier than the day when they are notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette under section 48(1) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 of the Commonwealth, subsection (1) of this section has effect, and is taken always to have had effect, as if those regulations had taken effect under the Corporations Act from the specified day.
(3) To the extent that a provision of the Corporations Regulations of South Australia is taken because of a particular application of subsection (2) to have effect, or to have had effect, before the day of notification of the regulations referred to in that subsection, the provision does not operate so as to—
(a) affect a private person's rights as at that day so as to disadvantage that person; or
(b) impose a liability on a private person in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before that day.
(4) In subsection (3)—
private person means a person other than—
(a) the Commonwealth, a State or the Capital Territory; or
(b) an authority of the Commonwealth, of a State or of the Capital Territory.
(5) Subsection (3) does not affect any other operation that the provision has because of subsection (2) or otherwise.
9—Interpretation of some expressions in the Corporations Law, and the Corporations Regulations, of South Australia
In the Corporations Law, and the Corporations Regulations, of South Australia—
the Minister for this jurisdiction means the Minister;
this jurisdiction means South Australia.
10—Interpretation law
(1) Subject to Part 1.2 of the Corporations Law of South Australia, the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 of the Commonwealth as in force at the commencement of section 8 of the Corporations Act, applies as a law of South Australia in relation to the Corporations Law, and the Corporations Regulations, of South Australia and any instrument made, granted or issued under that Law or those Regulations (other than application orders under section 111A of that Law) and so applies as if that Law were an Act of the Commonwealth and those Regulations or instruments were regulations or instruments made under such an Act.
(2) The Acts Interpretation Act 1915 does not apply in relation to the Corporations Law, or the Corporations Regulations, of South Australia or an application order or any other instrument made, granted or issued under that Law or those Regulations.