Nick Xenophon (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

I, together with my colleague Senator Hinch, move:

(1) Schedule 2, page 13 (after line 14), after item 14, insert:

14A Continuation of nomination of AAT presidential members

(1) This item applies to a person if, immediately before the transition time, an instrument is in force under section 44 of the old Act nominating the person to issue examination notices under Division 3 of Part 1 of Chapter 7 of the old Act.

(2) The instrument has effect, after the transition time, as if it were an instrument made by the Minister under section 61A of the new Act nominating the person to issue examination notices under Part 2 of Chapter 7 of the new Act.

14B Preserving regulations relating to examination notices

Regulations made by the Governor-General for the purposes of a provision of the old Act referred to in column 1 of the table that are in force immediately before the transition time continue in force after that time as if the regulations were rules made by the Minister for the purposes of the provision of the new Act referred to in column 2 of the table.

This is, in a sense, consequential to the amendment that has just been passed. In fact, I spoke to it earlier. This is about the continuation of nomination of AAT presidential members and the preserving of regulations relating to examination notices. In other words, it is to ensure that the safeguards that were built into the previous amendment actually work in a practical sense.