12   Machinery provisions regarding repeal

(1)  A statutory rule is, for the purposes of this Part, to be taken to have been published on the following date:

(a)  if the statutory rule was required to be published on the NSW legislation website or in the Government Gazette or any other official gazette—the date on which it was originally so published,

(b)  if the statutory rule was not required to be so published but was required to be made, approved or confirmed by the Governor—the date on which it was so made, approved or confirmed,

(c)  in any other case—the date on which it was made.

(2)  The repeal of a statutory rule by this Part extends to any direct amendments (whenever made) of the statutory rule and to so much of any statutory rule as makes any such amendments.

(3)  A set of regulations, by-laws, rules or ordinances constituting a single instrument is, for the purposes of this Part, to be taken to be a single statutory rule.

(4)  If an instrument made under one Act is by law to be treated as a statutory rule made under another Act, the date of publication is, for the purposes of this Part, the date it was originally published.

(5), (6)  (Repealed)