This Act may be cited as the Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1972, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Act heretofore known as the Industries and Commerce Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the Trade and Industry Act 1956.

The Short Title of the principal Act and the Short Title of the Industries and Commerce Amendment Act 1969 are hereby consequentially amended, in each case, by omitting the words “Industries and Commerce”, and substituting the words “Trade and Industry”.

Every reference in any enactment to either of the said Acts is hereby consequentially amended by omitting the words “Industries and Commerce”, and substituting the words “Trade and Industry”.

The principal Act is hereby further amended—

Every reference to the Department of Industries and Commerce in the Schedule to the Parliamentary Commissioner (Ombudsman) Act 1962 and the Second and Third Schedules to the State Services Act 1962, and (unless the context otherwise requires) every reference in any other enactment or document to the Department of Industries and Commerce, shall be read as a reference to the Department of Trade and Industry.

Every reference to the Minister of Industries and Commerce in any other enactment or document shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Minister of Trade and Industry.

Every reference to the Secretary of Industries and Commerce in any other enactment or document shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Secretary of Trade and Industry.

Every act of authority done by the Minister of Industries and Commerce or the Secretary of Industries and Commerce pursuant to any Act, regulation, rule, order, notice, or other authority, and subsisting at the commencement of this Act, shall continue and have effect after the commencement of this Act as if, in the case of an act done by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, it had been done by the Minister of Trade and Industry, and, in the case of an act done by the Secretary of Industries and Commerce, it had been done by the Secretary of Trade and Industry.

The person holding office at the commencement of this Act as Secretary of Industries and Commerce shall be deemed to have been appointed as Secretary of Trade and Industry.

All other persons who at the commencement of this Act are officers or employees of the Department of Industries and Commerce and have been so appointed under the Public Service Act 1912 or the State Services Act 1962 shall be deemed to have been so appointed as officers or employees of the Department of Trade and Industry.