Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Improvements for Families and Gender Equality) Act 2023 (4 of 2023)

Schedule 3   Application, savings and transitional provisions

7   Rules

(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to the amendments or repeals made by this Act.

(2) Without limiting subitem (1), rules made under this item before 1 July 2024 may provide that provisions of any of the following have effect with any modifications prescribed by the rules:

(a) this Act;

(b) the PPL Act;

(c) the Acts amended by Schedule 2 to this Act;

(d) the PPL rules.

Those provisions then have effect as if they were so modified.

(3) To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:

(a) create an offence or civil penalty;

(b) provide powers of:

(i) arrest or detention; or

(ii) entry, search or seizure;

(c) impose a tax;

(d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act;

(e) directly amend the text of this Act.

(4) This Schedule (other than subitem (3)) does not limit the rules that may be made for the purposes of subitems (1) and (2).