Penalty Units and Other Penalties Act 1987
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8 Application of Act
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or any other Act, the provisions of the Acts specified in Schedule 1 , as in force immediately before the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, apply to and in relation to offences committed or alleged to have been committed under those Acts and acts done, or omitted to be done, or alleged to have been done, or to have been omitted to be done, under those Acts before that day, and, for the purposes of that application, the provisions of the Acts so specified, as so in force, shall be deemed to remain in force.
(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or any other Act, the provisions of section 46A of the Police Offences Act 1935 , as in force –
(a) on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, in a case to which section 2 (3) of this Act applies; or
(b) on the day fixed by proclamation under section 2 (2) of the Police Offences Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985 , in any other case –
apply to or in relation to offences committed or alleged to have been committed under section 46A of the Police Offences Act 1935 before the day referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) , as the case requires, and, for the purposes of this subsection, the provisions of section 46A of the Police Offences Act 1935 , as so in force, shall be deemed to remain in force.