Social Security Act 1964 No 136 (as at 23 July 2011), Public Act

135 Repeals and savings
  • (1) The enactments specified in Schedule 13 are hereby repealed.

    (2) For all purposes whatsoever in respect of any social security contribution or social security charge which at the commencement of this Act has already been assessed or paid or is still assessable or payable in or for any year before the year commencing on 1 April 1958, or deductible on or before or after that date from any salary or wages or other income for any period before that date, in accordance with any provision of the Social Security Act 1938 that was repealed before the commencement of this Act, that provision (whether a penal provision or not) and all regulations, orders, warrants, and other acts of authority originating under the Social Security Act 1938 shall, notwithstanding the repeal of that Act by this Act or of any provision thereof by any other enactment, be deemed to remain in full force and effect; and all proceedings under that Act, including proceedings for the recovery of any fine or penalty in respect of any offence committed, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, may be instituted or continued accordingly as if the Social Security Act 1938, or, as the case may be, the provision thereof, had not been repealed.

    (3) All proceedings in respect of offences committed or alleged to have been committed against any enactment hereby repealed or against any provision of the Social Security Act 1938 that was repealed before the commencement of this Act may be instituted or continued as if this Act had not been passed.

    (4) [Repealed]

    (5) Nothing in subsection (1) of section 55 or in section 66 or in Schedule 9 or Schedule 10 shall apply with respect to any sickness benefit that was in force on 13 September 1961 (being the date of the passing of the Social Security Amendment Act 1961) and is in force at the date of the commencement of this Act, and any such benefit may be continued as if this Act and section 6 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1961 had not been passed.

    Section 135(4): repealed, on 1 October 1987, by section 3(1)(b) of the Social Security (Reciprocity with Australia) Act 1987 (1987 No 71).

    Section 135(5): amended, on 27 September 2010, by section 35(1) of the Social Security (New Work Tests, Incentives, and Obligations) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 105).