11Time of commencement and date of passing of Acts

11 Time of commencement and date of passing of Acts S. 11(1) amended by No. 108/1994 s. 10(a), substituted by No. 13/2006 s. 4(2). (1) Subject to subsection (2) and to section 71 of the **Constitution Act 1975**, if a particular day is fixed (whether in the Act or in a proclamation made under the Act) for an Act or a provision of an Act to come into operation, the Act or provision comes into operation at the beginning of that day. S. 11(2) amended by No. 95/1993 s. 4(1)(a)–(e), substituted by No. 13/2006 s. 4(2). (2) If an Act confers power on the Governor in Council to fix by proclamation published in the Government Gazette a day for the Act or a provision or provisions of the Act to come into operation, the publication of the proclamation in the Government Gazette is a condition precedent to the coming into operation of the Act or provision or provisions in question. S. 11(2A) inserted by No. 13/2006 s. 4(2). (2A) If a proclamation fixing a day for the coming into operation of an Act or a provision or provisions of an Act is made on or before the fixed day but is not published in the Government Gazette until after that day, the proclamation does not wholly fail but the Act or provision comes, or the provisions come, into operation at the beginning of the day on which the proclamation is so published. S. 11(3) amended by No. 108/1994 s. 10(b). (3) The date of the passing of an Act is the date on which the Act receives the Royal Assent. S. 11(4) inserted by No. 95/1993 s. 4(2), amended by No. 61/2004 s. 3(a)(b). (4) A reference in an Act to the date of commencement of that Act or another Act or a portion containing 2 or more provisions of that Act or another Act is, if the whole of the Act or portion referred to did not come, or is not to come, into operation on the one day, a reference to the first day on or before which all the provisions of the Act or portion referred to have come, or will have come, into operation.