1General information

1 General information

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Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 6 March 2019

Legislative Council: 2 May 2019

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to establish a scheme for the registration of professional engineers to promote best practice in providing professional engineering services, to provide for the endorsement of registration, to provide protection to consumers of professional engineering services and to make consequential amendments to other Acts and for other purposes."

The Professional Engineers Registration Act 2019 was assented to on 3 September 2019 and came into operation as follows:

Parts 1 (sections 1−9) and 3 (sections 34−53), sections 103−105, Part 8 Division 2 (sections 108−111) on 10 November 2020: Special Gazette (No. 575) 10 November 2020 page 1.

Sections 10–33, 54–102, 106, 107, 112–138 on 1 July 2021: section 2(2).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original section or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

• Headings

All headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. See section 36(1A)(2A).

• Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act. See section 36(3A).