What it does
This Act supplies a package of amendments to a range of Tasmanian statutes and subordinate instruments that deal principally with public sector superannuation and related public office remuneration and pensions. Mechanically, it does three things.
First, it identifies a set of amendments to existing principal Acts and regulations and records that those amendments have been incorporated into the authorised versions of the target instruments. Numerous Parts of the Act name a principal Act or principal regulations and then record that "the amendment effected by this section has been incorporated into the authorised version" of that instrument. Representative examples include the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1973 (Part 2, s 4 and s 5), the Governor of Tasmania Act 1982 (Part 3, s 6 and s 7), the Judges' Contributory Pensions Act 1968 (Part 4, s 8 and s 9), the Parliamentary Salaries, Superannuation and Allowances Act 1973 (Part 5, s 10 and s 11), and multiple Parts addressing Retirement Benefits Acts and Regulations (Parts 7 through 13, 9 through 12, and 11 through 13 provide many such incorporations). The Act repeats this formulation across many sections (for example, ss 5, 7, 9, 11, 12-17, 18-22, 24-25, 26-35, 37-39, 40-59, 61-78, 80-85, 87-92). The statutory text itself does not reproduce the operative amendment language; it records that the amendments are reflected in the authorised versions of each named instrument.
Second, the Act sets its commencement rules. It provides that, except where otherwise provided, the Act commences on the day of Royal Assent (s 2(1)). It then specifies that a large subset of Parts will commence on days to be proclaimed (s 2(2)), and that Part 13 commences on a day to be proclaimed (s 2(3)). That creates executive discretion as to the timing of coming-into-force for many of the incorporated amendments.