Place Names Act 2020
SCHEDULE 2 - Savings and TransSCHEDULE 2 - Savings and Transitional
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SCHEDULE 2 - Savings and Trans SCHEDULE 2 - Savings and Transitional
1. Interpretation
In this Schedule –
commencement day means the day on which this Act commences;
former Act means the Survey Co-ordination Act 1944 ;
Nomenclature Board means the Nomenclature Board established under section 20A of the former Act.
2. Assigned names taken to be approved name
(1) A name approved under the former Act in respect of a place that is notified in the Gazette under the former Act before the commencement day, is taken, on and after the commencement day –
(a) to be recorded in the register under this Act; and
(b) to be an approved name for a place for the purposes of this Act, until the name is amended, or revoked, under this Act.
(2) The Registrar is to include an entry in the register for each place that is taken to have an approved name by virtue of subclause (1) .
3. Proposals under former Act taken to be proposal under this Act
(1) If, on the commencement day –
(a) a proposal in respect of the name for a place has been gazetted under section 20F of the former Act; but
(b) a final decision in respect of the name for the place has not been published in accordance with section 20J of the former Act –
the proposal gazetted under section 20F of the former Act is taken to have been a proposal published under section 10(2)(b) for the purposes of this Act.
(2) This Act applies to the determination of a proposal referred to in as if it were a proposal under this Act.