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The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Bill 2000
No. , 2000
(Environment and Heritage)
A Bill for an Act relating to the application of the Criminal Code to certain offences, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
4............ Application of amendments................................................................. 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of Acts 3
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 3
Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981 6
Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Act 1980 8
Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978 11
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 12
Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 17
Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 20
National Environment Protection Measures (Implementation) Act 1998 22
Ozone Protection Act 1989 23
Sea Installations Act 1987 27
Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982 29
A Bill for an Act relating to the application of the Criminal Code to certain offences, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2000 .
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the latest of the following days:
(a) the 28th day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;
(b) the 28th day after the day on which the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2000 receives the Royal Assent;
(c) the day on which item 15 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000 commences.
(2) If Schedule 1 to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 2000 commences before the time applicable under subsection (1), items 1 to 11 of Schedule 1 to this Act do not commence.
(3) Items 28, 29 and 30 of Schedule 1 to this Act commence at the later of the following times:
(a) the time applicable under subsection (1);
(b) the commencement of subsection 17(4) of the Antarctic (Environment Protection) Legislation Amendment Act 1992 .
3 Schedule(s)
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
4 Application of amendments
(1) Each amendment made by this Act applies to acts and omissions that take place after the amendment commences.
(2) For the purposes of this section, if an act or omission is alleged to have taken place between 2 dates, one before and one on or after the day on which a particular amendment commences, the act or omission is alleged to have taken place before the amendment commences.