(1) Where an enactment is expressed to expire lapse or otherwise cease to have effect on a particular day, the enactment shall, except as provided by subsection (2) be construed as ceasing to have effect immediately on the expiration of that day.
(2) Where a Bill is introduced into any session of the Legislature for the continuance of any Act limited to expire in that session and that Act expires before such Bill, having passed the Legislature, receives in that session the assent of the Governor General and is published in the Gazette, then, subject to subsection (3) that Act shall be deemed to have continued as fully and effectively in operation as if such Bill had received the assent of the Governor General and been published in the Gazette before that Act expired.
(3) Subsection (2) shall not operate so as to render any person liable under the provisions of an Act which has expired to any penalty or forfeiture by reason of any act done by him or her before the date on which the Bill for the continuance of that Act, having passed the Legislature, receives the assent of the Governor General and is published in the Gazette.