Commonwealth legislation

Criminal Code (Repeal of Amendments) Regulations 2009

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

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Commonwealth

Act Number

176 of 2009

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What this does: This regulation cancels four recent amendment regulations (Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2009 Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11) that were scheduled to change the Criminal Code.

The legal effect: The regulation applies retrospectively (meaning it takes effect as if it happened on) 25 June 2009. Because this repeal date is before the four amendment regulations were due to commence, those amendments legally never existed — any changes they contained are wiped from the record before they could take effect.

Who it affects: Primarily government lawyers and administrators. For the general public, this simply means those specific proposed changes to criminal law will not come into force.

Why it matters: This is a "housekeeping" measure that lets the government abort amendments before they start, rather than having to undo them later.

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Criminal Code (Repeal of Amendments) Regulations 20091

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 176

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Criminal Code Act 1995.

Dated 9 July 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

ROBERT McCLELLAND

Attorney-General

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Criminal Code (Repeal of Amendments) Regulations 2009.

2 Commencement

These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 25 June 2009.

3 Repeal of legislative instruments

The following legislative instruments are repealed:

(a) Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 8);

(b) Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 9);

(d) Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 11).

Note Because the repeal takes effect before the instruments commenced, the amendments made by the instruments are taken never to have come into effect.

Note

Note: 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.

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1 Criminal Code (Repeal of Amendments) Regulations 2009