165Regulations may deal with transitional matters

#### 165 Regulations may deal with transitional matters (1) The regulations may prescribe matters of a transitional nature (including matters of an application or saving nature): (a) arising out of the enactment of this Law; or (b) relating to the transition from the application of provisions of laws of the States and the Territories to the application of provisions of this Law. (2) The regulations have effect despite anything else in this Law. (3) The regulations may provide that certain provisions of this Law are taken to be modified as set out in the regulations. Those provisions then have effect as if they were so modified. (4) The regulations may provide that a specified identifier, document, licence, certificate or exemption (however described) issued, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, under a law of a State or the Northern Territory is taken to be a specified identifier, document, licence, certificate or exemption issued under this Law, subject to such requirements and modifications as are prescribed. (5) Subsection 12(2) (retrospective application of legislative instruments) of the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth does not apply to regulations made under this section. (6) If: (a) regulations are expressed to commence from a day before the day the regulations are registered under the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth; and (b) a person did an act or omitted to do an act before the regulations are registered; and (c) apart from the retrospective effect of the regulations, the act or omission would not have contravened this Law; then a court must not convict the person of an offence in relation to the act or omission on the grounds that it contravened this Law. (7) A reference to this Law in subsection (3) does not include a reference to regulations or any other legislative instrument made under this Law.