Victorian Numbered Acts

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AMENDMENT ACT 2013 (NO. 29 OF 2013) - SECT 8

For Part 8 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 substitute —

" PART 8—PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AMENDMENT ACT 2013

        65     Definitions

In this Part—

"Amendment Act" means the Parliamentary Committees Amendment Act 2013 ;

"commencement date" means 1 August 2013;

"former committee" means a committee established under this Act as in force immediately before the commencement date specified in column 1 of the Table;

"successor committee", in relation to a former committee, means the committee specified in column 2 of the Table opposite the former committee.

Table

Column 1 Former committee	Column 2 Successor committee
Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee Law Reform Committee Outer Suburban/Interface Services and Development Committee	Law Reform, Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee Economic Development, Infrastructure and Outer Suburban/Interface Services Committee Law Reform, Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee Economic Development, Infrastructure and Outer Suburban/Interface Services Committee

        66     Savings and transitional provisions

s. 8

    (1)     Despite the amendment of this Act by the Amendment Act—

        (a)     a successor committee is deemed to be the same body as the former committee;

        (b)     except as expressly provided in this section, all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created by or under this Act or existing or continuing under this Act immediately before the commencement date continue under and subject to this Act to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had if this Act had not been amended by the Amendment Act.

    (2)     On the commencement date—

        (a)     a member of a former committee ceases to be a member of the former committee and does not become a member of the successor committee unless he or she has been appointed to be a member of the successor committee;

        (b)     a sub-committee of a former committee ceases to exist.

    (3)     Despite subsection (1)—

        (a)     a resolution by a former Committee to use an audio or audio visual link under section 25(5); or

        (b)     an invitation to a member of the Council or the Assembly or to a member of the public under section 26(1) to be present at a meeting of a former Committee; or

        (c)     a requirement under section 28(1) by a former Committee to attend or produce a document or thing; or

        (d)     the empowerment of a specified member or members of a former Committee under section 28(5)—

ceases to have any effect on the commencement date.".