Section 14: Exercise of powers before commencement

14. Exercise of powers before commencement (1) No appointment, instrument, notice, form, direction, or other thing made, granted, issued, given, prescribed or done under a power conferred by an enactment shall, unless it is necessary for bringing the enactment into effect, have effect until the enactment comes into operation. (2) Where an enactment which is to come into operation after its publication in the Gazette confers power— (a) to make an appointment; (b) to make, grant or issue an instrument; (c) to give or issue a notice or direction; (d) to prescribe a form; or (e) to do any other thing for the purposes of the enactment, I20 – 7 [Issue 1] Interpretation and General Clauses Act the power may be exercised after the publication of the enactment to enable the enactment to come into operation at its commencement.