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4 Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Sedition (Repeal) Act 2021 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Repeal of Sedition Act

2.—(1) The Sedition Act (called in this section the repealed Act) is repealed.

(2) Despite subsection (1)—
 * (a) sections 5, 6 and 7 of the repealed Act as in force immediately before the date of commencement of this Act (called in this section the appointed date) continue to apply in relation to a proceeding for an act committed before that date;
 * (b) section 8 of the repealed Act as in force immediately before the appointed date continues to apply in relation to a seditious publication reasonably suspected as having been printed, published, sold, offered for sale, distributed, reproduced or imported before that date;
 * (c) section 9 of the repealed Act as in force immediately before the appointed date continues to apply to a person convicted of an offence committed before that date;
 * (d) section 10 of the repealed Act as in force immediately before the appointed date continues to apply in relation to any publication the issue or circulation of which commenced before that date; and
 * (e) section 11 of the repealed Act as in force immediately before the appointed date continues to apply in relation to an act reasonably suspected as having been committed before that date.