6Effect on other laws

6. Effect on other laws

(1) The Agreement operates and takes effect despite any enactment or other law.

(2) If a provision of the scheduled agreement or the 2020 variation agreement expressly or by implication purports to modify or exclude the application or operation of an enactment for a purpose or in relation to a person or thing, the application or operation of the enactment is modified or excluded for that purpose, or in relation to that person or thing, to the extent or for the period mentioned in the provision or necessary for the provision to have effect.

(3) To avoid doubt, it is declared that the provisions of the Public Works Act 1902 section 96 do not apply to the railway constructed pursuant to the Agreement.

(4) This section does not limit or otherwise affect the application of the Government Agreements Act 1979.

[Section 6 amended: No. 10 of 2021 s. 6.]

[Pt. 3 has not come into operation.]