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Legislation Act 2003

No. 139, 2003

Compilation No. 39

Compilation date: 24 February 2019

Includes amendments up to: Act No. 130, 2018

Registered: 25 February 2019

This compilation includes commenced amendments made by Act No. 78,

2018

Prepared by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Canberra

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This compilation

This is a compilation of the Legislation Act 2003 that shows the text of the law

as amended and in force on 24 February 2019 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information

about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled

law.

Uncommenced amendments

The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the

compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible

on the Legislation Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of

amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are

underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced

amendments, see the series page on the Legislation Register for the compiled

law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and

amendments

If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by

an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this

compilation, details are included in the endnotes.

Editorial changes

For more information about any editorial changes made in this compilation, see

the endnotes.

Modifications

If the compiled law is modified by another law, the compiled law operates as

modified but the modification does not amend the text of the law. Accordingly,

this compilation does not show the text of the compiled law as modified. For

more information on any modifications, see the series page on the Legislation

Self-repealing provisions

If a provision of the compiled law has been repealed in accordance with a

provision of the law, details are included in the endnotes.

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Contents

Chapter 1—Introduction 1

Part 1—Preliminary 1 1 Short title ...........................................................................................1

2 Commencement.................................................................................1

3 Object ................................................................................................2

3A Simplified outline of this Act ............................................................3

3AA Norfolk Island....................................................................................4

4 The Dictionary...................................................................................4

5 Definitions of amend and modify.......................................................7

6 Definitions of rule-maker and responsible person.............................8

Part 2—Key concepts for legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments 10 7 Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................10

8 Definition of legislative instrument .................................................11

9 Inference of legislative character .....................................................13

10 Instruments declared to be legislative instruments ..........................14

11 Definition of notifiable instrument ..................................................15

12 Commencement of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments ......................................................................................16

13 Construction of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments ......................................................................................18

14 Prescribing matters by reference to other instruments .....................19

Chapter 2—Registration of Acts, legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments 21

Part 1—The Federal Register of Legislation 21

Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part 21

15 Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................21

Division 2—Federal Register of Legislation 22

15A Federal Register of Legislation—establishment and

maintenance.....................................................................................22

15B Federal Register of Legislation—complete record of

registered laws.................................................................................23

15C Federal Register of Legislation—access to registered

material on approved website ..........................................................23

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15D Federal Register of Legislation—rectification of Register ..............24

15DA Requirement for re-tabling and new disallowance period

after rectification of Register ...........................................................25

15E Federal Register of Legislation—keeping the Register ...................27

Division 3—Registration on Federal Register of Legislation 28

15F Registration of Acts .........................................................................28

15G Lodgement of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments, and other material........................................................28

15H Registration of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments, and other documents ...................................................29

15J Explanatory statements....................................................................30

15K Registration—enforceability of legislative instruments...................31

15L Events affecting the currency or accuracy of the Register ...............31

15M Rules for lodgement and registration...............................................33

Part 2—Compilations 35

Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part 35

15N Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................35

Division 2—Registration of compilations 36

15P Registered compilations—information requirements ......................36

15Q Definitions of required compilation event and discretionary

compilation event etc. ......................................................................36

15R Lodgement of compilations of instruments—required

compilation events...........................................................................38

15S Lodgement of compilations of instruments—discretionary

compilation events...........................................................................39

15T Registration of compilations............................................................39

15U Compilations—rules........................................................................41

Division 3—Editorial changes and other changes 43

15V Power to make editorial changes and other changes........................43

15W Editorial changes treated in the same way as amendments..............45

15X Definition of editorial change .........................................................45

Part 3—Authorised versions and judicial notice 48

Division 1—Introduction 48

15Y Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................48

15Z Scope of this Part.............................................................................48

Division 2—Authorised versions and judicial notice 49

15ZA Authorised versions .........................................................................49

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15ZB Judicial notice..................................................................................51

Chapter 3—Legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments 53

Part 1—Drafting standards and consultation 53 15ZC Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................53

16 Measures to achieve high drafting standards for legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments ............................................53

17 Rule-makers should consult before making legislative

instruments ......................................................................................54

19 Consequence of failure to consult....................................................55

Part 2—Parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments 56 36 Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................56

37 The purpose of the Part....................................................................56

38 Tabling of legislative instruments....................................................56

39 Tabling of explanatory statements ...................................................57

40 Regulations may specify manner of delivery of certain

documents........................................................................................58

41 Incorporated material may be required to be made available ..........58

42 Disallowance of legislative instruments ..........................................58

44 Legislative instruments that are not subject to disallowance ...........60

45 Reviving a legislative instrument, law or provision.........................60

46 Legislative instruments not to be remade while required to

be tabled ..........................................................................................61

47 Legislative instruments not to be remade while subject to

disallowance ....................................................................................62

48 Remaking disallowed legislative instruments..................................63

Part 3—Repeal of spent legislative instruments, notifiable

instruments and provisions 64

Division 1A—Simplified outline of this Part 64

48AA Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................64

Division 1—Automatic repeal 65

Subdivision A—Repeal of amending and repealing instruments 65

48A Automatic repeal of amending and repealing instruments...............65

Subdivision B—Repeal of commencement instruments 66

48B Automatic repeal of commencement instruments............................66

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Subdivision C—Repeal of amending or repealing provisions of

instruments containing other matter 67

48C Automatic repeal of amending and repealing provisions.................67

Subdivision D—Repeal of commencement provisions of

instruments containing other matter 69

48D Automatic repeal of commencement provisions..............................69

Division 2—Repeal by regulations 71

48E Regulations may repeal instruments or provisions no longer

required............................................................................................71

Part 4—Sunsetting of legislative instruments 72 48F Simplified outline of this Part..........................................................72

49 The purpose of the Part....................................................................72

50 Sunsetting ........................................................................................73

51 Attorney-General may defer sunsetting in certain

circumstances ..................................................................................74

51A Attorney-General may align sunsetting of instruments to be

reviewed together ............................................................................75

52 Attorney-General must lay lists of instruments due for

sunsetting before each House of the Parliament ..............................76

53 Resolution that instrument continue in force ...................................76

54 Instruments to which this Part does not apply .................................77

Chapter 4—Miscellaneous 79 55 Simplified outline of this Chapter....................................................79

56 Legislative instruments—gazettal and other publication and

notification requirements .................................................................79

57 Effect on existing tabling and disallowance requirements...............80

57A Legislative instruments made under power delegated by the

Parliament before 1 January 2005 ...................................................82

58 Delegation .......................................................................................82

59 Review of operation of this Act .......................................................82

60 Review of operation of the sunsetting provisions ............................83

61 Legislative instrument and notifiable instrument

amendments by regulations under this Act ......................................83

61A Rules made by First Parliamentary Counsel ....................................84

62 Regulations......................................................................................84

Endnotes 85

Endnote 1—About the endnotes 85

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Endnote 2—Abbreviation key 87

Endnote 3—Legislation history 88

Endnote 4—Amendment history 94

Endnote 5—Editorial changes 101

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An Act providing for public access to Acts and

instruments, for the making, parliamentary

scrutiny and sunsetting of legislative instruments

and for the repeal of spent instruments and

provisions, and for other purposes

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1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Legislation Act 2003.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table

commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the

time specified in column 2 of the table.

Commencement information

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Provision(s) Commencement Date/Details

1. Sections 1, 2 The day on which this Act receives the 17 December

and 2A and Royal Assent 2003

anything in this

Act not elsewhere

covered by this

table

2. Sections 3 to 62 A single day fixed by Proclamation, subject 1 January 2005

to subsections (3) and (4)

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Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Provision(s) Commencement Date/Details

3. Schedule 1 Immediately after the commencement of 1 January 2005

Schedule 1 to the Legislative Instruments

(Transitional Provisions and Consequential

Amendments) Act 2003

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally

passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to

deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

(2) Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part

of this Act. This information may be included in any published

version of this Act.

(3) The date fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of item 2 of the

table must be a first day of January or a first day of July occurring

after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(4) If the provisions covered by item 2 of the table do not commence

under subsection (1) within the period of 12 months beginning on

the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they

commence on the first day of January or of July, whichever next

follows the end of that period.

3 Object

The object of this Act is to provide a comprehensive regime for the

management of Acts and instruments by:

(a) establishing the Federal Register of Legislation as a

permanent repository of versions (including authorised

versions) of Acts, legislative instruments, notifiable

instruments and compilations, together with associated

documents and information; and

(aa) enabling the First Parliamentary Counsel to make editorial

changes and some other changes in preparing compilations of

Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments, if

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those changes do not change the effect of the Acts or

instruments; and

(b) encouraging rule-makers to undertake appropriate

consultation before making legislative instruments; and

instruments and notifiable instruments to promote their legal

effectiveness, their clarity and their intelligibility to

anticipated users; and

(d) improving public access to Acts and instruments; and

(e) establishing improved mechanisms for Parliamentary

scrutiny of legislative instruments; and

(ea) automatically repealing spent legislative instruments and

notifiable instruments (or provisions of those instruments)

that merely provide for the amendment, repeal or

commencement of Acts or other instruments; and

(f) establishing mechanisms to ensure that legislative

instruments are periodically reviewed and, if they no longer

have a continuing purpose, repealed; and

(g) enabling regulations to be made under this Act amending or

repealing legislative instruments and notifiable instruments in

some circumstances.

3A Simplified outline of this Act

This Act provides for public access to Commonwealth Acts,

legislative instruments and notifiable instruments. The Act also

regulates other matters relating to legislative instruments and

notifiable instruments.

Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments,

compilations and associated documents and information are

registered on the Federal Register of Legislation. The public has

online access (through an approved website) to authorised versions

of registered Acts, instruments and compilations, and to associated

documents and information.

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The First Parliamentary Counsel maintains the Register and the

approved website. The First Parliamentary Counsel is given the

power to make editorial changes and some other changes to

registered Acts and instruments in preparing compilations, if those

changes do not change the effect of the Acts or instruments.

For legislative instruments and notifiable instruments, the Act

deals with commencement, interpretation, incorporation of external

material by reference and drafting standards.

Rule-makers for legislative instruments must undertake appropriate

and reasonably practicable consultation before the instruments are

made. Generally, legislative instruments must be tabled in both

Houses of Parliament and are generally subject to disallowance by

either House.

Legislative instruments and notifiable instruments (or provisions of

those instruments) are automatically repealed if they merely

provide for the amendment, repeal or commencement of Acts or

other instruments. Legislative instruments are generally repealed

automatically (sunsetted) no more than 10 years after being

registered.

3AA Norfolk Island

This Act extends to Norfolk Island.

4 The Dictionary

In this Act:

amend: see subsection 5(1).

approved website: see section 15C.

authorised version, of a registered law or explanatory statement:

see section 15ZA.

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commencement instrument, in relation to an Act, legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument, means an instrument providing

solely for the commencement of:

(a) the Act or instrument; or

(b) a provision of the Act or instrument.

Example: A Proclamation providing solely for the commencement of an Act.

compilation, of an Act, legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument, is a document showing the text of the Act or

instrument:

(a) as amended (if at all) and in force on a day (the compilation

date) stated in the document; or

(b) as the Act or instrument would be amended and in force on a

day (the compilation date) stated in the document, by

amendments that have not commenced, if the document

indicates that the amendments have not commenced; or

or an instrument, and in force on a day (the compilation date)

stated in the document.

Note: See Part 2 of Chapter 2 for the registration of compilations.

compilation date: see the definition of compilation in this section.

disallowable legislative instrument means a legislative instrument

to which section 42 applies.

Note: Section 42 provides for the parliamentary disallowance of legislative

instruments. Section 42 does not apply to some legislative instruments

(see section 44).

discretionary compilation event, for an Act, legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument: see section 15Q.

editorial change, in relation to an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument: see section 15X.

enabling legislation, in relation to a legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument, means the primary law that authorises the

making of the instrument.

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explanatory statement for a legislative instrument: see section 15J.

Federal Register of Legislation means the register established and

maintained under section 15A.

First Parliamentary Counsel means the person appointed to the

position of First Parliamentary Counsel under subsection 4(1) of

the Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970.

initial explanatory statement: see section 15J.

instrument means any writing or other document, and includes an

instrument in electronic form.

legislative instrument: see section 8.

Note: This term has the same meaning when used in other Acts and

instruments: see the definition of legislative instrument in section 2B

of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

making, in relation to an instrument, means the signing, sealing or

other endorsement of the instrument by the person or body

empowered to make it.

modify: see subsection 5(2).

notifiable instrument: see section 11.

Note: This term has the same meaning when used in other Acts and

instruments: see the definition in section 2B of the Acts Interpretation

Act 1901.

Office of Parliamentary Counsel means the office established by

subsection 2(1) of the Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970.

power delegated by the Parliament: an instrument made under a

power delegated by the Parliament includes:

(a) an instrument made under a power delegated by the

Parliament to a person or body and then, under the authority

of the Parliament, further delegated by that person or body to

another person or body; and

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(b) an instrument that may be made under a power delegated by

the Parliament as well as under a power given otherwise by

law.

Example:An instrument made under an Act as well as a prerogative power.

primary law means an Act or an instrument made under an Act, or

a provision of an Act or an instrument made under an Act.

register means register on the Federal Register of Legislation.

registered law or explanatory statement: see section 15Z.

repeal, in relation to an instrument or a provision of an instrument,

includes revoke or rescind the instrument or provision.

Note: Section 5 defines amend, for a provision of an instrument, to include

the repeal of a provision of the instrument.

replacement explanatory statement: see section 15J.

required compilation event, for an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument: see section 15Q.

responsible person: see section 6.

rule-maker: see section 6.

rules means rules made by the First Parliamentary Counsel under

section 61A.

Note: These rules are legislative instruments. Regulations may also be made

for the purposes of this Act (see section 62).

supplementary explanatory statement: see section 15J.

text includes any writing.

Note: See the definition of writing in section 2B of the Acts Interpretation

Act 1901.

5 Definitions of amend and modify

(1) In this Act, amend includes:

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(a) for an Act or instrument—repeal, omit, insert, substitute,

renumber or relocate a provision of the Act or instrument;

and

(b) for a provision of an Act or instrument—any of the

following:

(i) repeal or omit the provision (or a part of it);

(ii) substitute another provision for the provision (or a part

of it);

(iii) insert another provision into the provision (or a part of

it);

(iv) renumber the provision (or a part of it);

(v) relocate the provision (or a part of it); and

instrument—amend by implication; and

(d) for an Act or instrument, or a provision of an Act or

instrument—change its text in any other way.

Note 1: Repeal, in relation to a provision of an instrument, includes revoke or

rescind the provision (see the definition of repeal in section 4).

Note 2: For the purposes of Part 2 of Chapter 2 (registration of compilations),

an Act or instrument is amended by an Act or instrument, or a

provision of an Act or instrument, when the amending Act or

provision commences (see subsection 15Q(3)).

(2) In this Act, modify an Act or instrument means modify the

operation of the Act or instrument without amending its text.

6 Definitions of rule-maker and responsible person

Rule-makers

(1) In this Act, rule-maker, for an instrument, means:

(a) for an instrument made by the Governor-General that is made

under enabling legislation (whether or not it may also be

made under any other power)—the Minister currently

responsible for administering the provision of the enabling

legislation under which the instrument is made; or

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(b) for an instrument made by the Governor-General, in any

other case—the Prime Minister, or a Minister prescribed by

regulation for the purposes of this paragraph; or

Governor-General—a person currently authorised to make

the instrument.

Responsible persons

(2) In this Act, responsible person means:

(a) for an Act or a provision of an Act—the Minister currently

responsible for administering the Act or provision; or

(b) for an instrument—the rule-maker for the instrument.

(3) If more than one Minister is currently responsible for administering

an Act, or a provision of an Act:

(a) each of those Ministers is a responsible person for the Act or

provision (as the case may be); and

(b) the performance of a function or duty under this Act (in

relation to the Act or provision administered) by any of the

Ministers discharges the function or duty.

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Part 2—Key concepts for legislative instruments

and notifiable instruments

7 Simplified outline of this Part

What are legislative instruments?

Generally, the following are legislative instruments:

• an instrument described or declared by a law (including this

Act) to be a legislative instrument;

• an instrument registered on the Federal Register of Legislation

as a legislative instrument;

• an instrument made under a power delegated by the

Parliament that determines the law or alters its content.

However, an instrument is not a legislative instrument if an Act (or

a regulation under this Act) so provides.

What are notifiable instruments?

Generally, the following are notifiable instruments:

• an instrument described or declared by a law (including this

Act or a regulation under this Act) to be a notifiable

instrument;

• a commencement instrument;

• an instrument (other than a legislative instrument) that is

registered on the Federal Register of Legislation as a

notifiable instrument.

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Generally, unlike legislative instruments, notifiable instruments are

not subject to parliamentary scrutiny, nor are they subject to

automatic repeal 10 years after registration.

Other key concepts

A legislative instrument or notifiable instrument commences on the

day after the instrument is registered, or on another day provided

by the instrument. Generally, the instrument does not apply

retrospectively if that would adversely affect rights or impose

liabilities.

Generally, the same rules apply to the interpretation of legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments as apply to the interpretation

of Acts. Some special rules also apply to the construction of

instruments.

There are restrictions on the extent to which legislative instruments

or notifiable instruments can incorporate matters by reference to

external documents.

8 Definition of legislative instrument

(1) A legislative instrument is an instrument to which subsection (2),

(3), (4) or (5) applies.

Note: Instruments that can be legislative instruments may be described by

their enabling legislation in different ways, for example as regulations,

rules, ordinances or determinations.

Primary law provides for something to be done by legislative

instrument

(2) If a primary law gives power to do something by legislative

instrument, then:

(a) if the thing is done, it must be done by instrument; and

(b) that instrument is a legislative instrument.

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Example 1: A primary law provides that “The Minister may, by legislative

instrument, determine licence conditions for the purposes of this

section.”.

Example 2: A primary law provides as follows:

“(1) The Chief Executive may, by instrument, determine licence conditions.

(2) The Chief Executive may, by instrument, exempt a person from the requirement under this Act to hold a licence.

(3) An instrument made by the Chief Executive under subsection (1) or (2) is a legislative instrument.”.

Instruments registered on the Federal Register of Legislation

(3) An instrument made under a power delegated by the Parliament is

a legislative instrument if it is registered as a legislative

instrument.

Note: An instrument made under a power delegated by the Parliament may

be a legislative instrument because it is registered as a legislative

instrument, whether or not it is a legislative instrument because of

another provision of this section.

Instruments that determine or alter the law etc.

(4) An instrument is a legislative instrument if:

(a) the instrument is made under a power delegated by the

Parliament; and

(b) any provision of the instrument:

(i) determines the law or alters the content of the law,

rather than determining particular cases or particular

circumstances in which the law, as set out in an Act or

another legislative instrument or provision, is to apply,

or is not to apply; and

(ii) has the direct or indirect effect of affecting a privilege

or interest, imposing an obligation, creating a right, or

varying or removing an obligation or right.

Instruments declared to be legislative instruments

(5) An instrument is a legislative instrument if it is declared by

section 10 or 57A to be a legislative instrument.

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Note: Section 10 declares regulations and some other instruments to be

legislative instruments. Section 57A declares some instruments to be

legislative instruments that were made under a power delegated by the

Parliament before 1 January 2005, when the substantive provisions of

this Act commenced.

Instruments that are not legislative instruments

(6) Despite subsections (4) and (5), an instrument is not a legislative

instrument if it is:

(a) declared by an Act not to be a legislative instrument; or

(b) prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph.

(7) However, subsection (6) does not apply to an instrument that is a

legislative instrument under subsection (3) by registration.

(8) Despite anything else in this section, the following are not

legislative instruments, and cannot become legislative instruments

under subsection (3) (by being registered as legislative

instruments):

(a) an instrument that is a notifiable instrument because of

subsection 11(1) (primary law gives power to do something

by notifiable instrument);

(b) a commencement instrument;

instrument;

(d) rules of court or a compilation of rules of court;

(e) an explanatory statement for a legislative instrument, or rules

of court mentioned in paragraph (d).

Note: Rules of court may, however, be registered under this Act, and may be

otherwise treated as if they were legislative instruments by their

enabling legislation.

9 Inference of legislative character

No implication of legislative character (or otherwise)

(1) The fact that an instrument is a legislative instrument because of

subsection 8(2), (3) or (5) does not imply that the instrument is, or

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must be, of legislative character (within the ordinary meaning of

that term).

(2) The fact that an instrument is not a legislative instrument because

of subsection 8(6) does not imply that the instrument is not, or

must not be, of legislative character (within the ordinary meaning

of that term).

No inference for other instruments

(3) In determining whether an instrument made under a provision of a

primary law is a legislative instrument under subsection 8(4), no

inference may be drawn from the fact that an instrument made

under another provision of that primary law, or any other primary

law, is a legislative instrument, or is not a legislative instrument.

Example: In determining whether a Ministerial direction under a provision of a

primary law is a legislative instrument, no inference may be drawn

from the fact that a Ministerial direction under another provision of

the primary law is described as a legislative instrument.

10 Instruments declared to be legislative instruments

(1) For the purposes of subsection 8(5), each of the following is a

legislative instrument:

(a) a regulation or Proclamation (other than a Proclamation that

is a commencement instrument) made under a power

delegated by the Parliament;

(b) a Territory Ordinance covered by subsection (2), or a

regulation, rule or by-law under such an Ordinance;

this paragraph;

(d) an instrument that includes a provision that amends or

repeals another legislative instrument.

Note: Commencement instruments, which may be Proclamations, are

notifiable instruments: see section 11.

(2) The following Territory Ordinances are covered by this subsection:

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(a) an Ordinance made under a power delegated by the

Parliament in an Act providing for the government of a

non-self-governing Territory;

(b) an Ordinance made under subsection 12(1) of the Seat of

Government (Administration) Act 1910 that has not become

an enactment (as defined in the Australian Capital Territory

(Self-Government) Act 1988).

11 Definition of notifiable instrument

What is a notifiable instrument?

(1) If a primary law gives power to do something by notifiable

instrument, then:

(a) if the thing is done, it must be done by instrument; and

(b) that instrument is a notifiable instrument.

Example 1: A primary law provides that “The Minister may, by notifiable

instrument, approve a form for the purposes of this section.”.

Example 2: A primary law provides as follows:

“(1) The Chief Executive may, by instrument, appoint an inspector for the purposes of section [X].

(2) The Chief Executive may, by instrument, approve a form for the purposes of section [Y].

(3) An instrument made by the Chief Executive under subsection (1) or (2) is a notifiable instrument.”.

(2) Each of the following is a notifiable instrument:

(a) a commencement instrument for an Act, legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument, or for a provision of an

Act or such an instrument;

(b) an instrument, other than a legislative instrument, prescribed

by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph;

registered as a notifiable instrument, if the instrument is

made under a power delegated by the Parliament or another

power given by law;

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(d) an instrument, other than a legislative instrument, that

includes a provision that amends or repeals another notifiable

instrument.

Note: The effect of paragraph (c) is that an instrument (other than a

legislative instrument) may be a notifiable instrument because it is

registered as a notifiable instrument, even if it would not otherwise be

a notifiable instrument because of this section. For a corresponding

provision relating to legislative instruments, see subsection 8(3).

Modification of the operation of this Act

(3) The enabling legislation for a notifiable instrument, or a regulation

under this Act in relation to a notifiable instrument, may modify

the operation of this Act in relation to the instrument.

Example: Such a regulation may provide that a provision of this Act about

explanatory statements that is expressed to apply in relation to

legislative instruments is also to apply to a particular class of

notifiable instruments.

Registration to satisfy other publication or notification

requirements

(4) If an Act or an instrument requires an instrument (other than a

legislative instrument), or the particulars of the instrument’s

making, to be published or notified in the Gazette or in any other

way, then, unless the contrary intention appears, the requirement is

taken to be satisfied if the instrument is registered as a notifiable

instrument.

12 Commencement of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments

When do legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

commence?

(1) A legislative instrument or a notifiable instrument commences:

(a) at the start of the day after the day the instrument is

registered; or

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(b) so far as the instrument provides otherwise—in accordance

with such provision.

Note: The instrument may provide for its commencement by enabling a commencement instrument to be made: see subsection (5).

Retrospective commencement

(1A) Despite any principle or rule of common law, a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument may provide that the

instrument, or a provision of the instrument, commences before the

instrument is registered.

Note: The effect of this subsection is to allow legislative and notifiable

instruments to commence retrospectively (subject to subsection (2)).

This subsection is subject to a contrary provision (see subsection (4)).

Retrospective application

(2) However, if a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument, or a

provision of such an instrument, commences before the instrument

is registered, the instrument or provision does not apply in relation

to a person (other than the Commonwealth or an authority of the

Commonwealth) to the extent that as a result of that

commencement:

(a) the person’s rights as at the time the instrument is registered

would be affected so as to disadvantage the person; or

(b) liabilities would be imposed on the person in respect of

anything done or omitted to be done before the instrument is

registered.

Retrospective commencement or application subject to contrary

provision

(4) The effect of subsection (1A) or (2) in relation to an instrument is

subject to any contrary provision in an Act.

Commencement instruments

(5) Without limiting paragraph (1)(b), for the purposes of that

paragraph, a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument may

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the legislative instrument or notifiable instrument.

13 Construction of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments

(1) If enabling legislation confers on a person the power to make a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument, then, unless the

contrary intention appears:

(a) the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 applies to any instrument so

made as if it were an Act and as if each provision of the

instrument were a section of an Act; and

(b) expressions used in any instrument so made have the same

meaning as in the enabling legislation as in force from time

to time; and

the enabling legislation as in force from time to time, and so

as not to exceed the power of the person to make the

instrument.

(2) If the making of a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument

would, apart from this subsection, be construed as being in excess

of the power to make the instrument, it is to be taken to be a valid

instrument to the extent to which it is not in excess of that power.

(3) If enabling legislation confers on a person the power to make a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument:

(a) specifying, declaring or prescribing a matter; or

(b) doing anything in relation to a matter;

then, in exercising the power, the person may identify the matter

by referring to a class or classes of matters.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), matter includes thing, person

and animal.

(5) The amendment of a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument

by an Act does not prevent the instrument, as so amended, from

being amended or repealed by a person who is currently authorised

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under the enabling legislation for the instrument to make

instruments of the same kind.

Note: This section has a parallel, in relation to instruments other than

legislative instruments or notifiable instruments, in

subsection 33(3AB) and section 46 of the Acts Interpretation Act

1901.

14 Prescribing matters by reference to other instruments

(1) If enabling legislation authorises or requires provision to be made

in relation to any matter by a legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument, the instrument may, unless the contrary intention

appears, make provision in relation to that matter:

(a) by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without

modification, any of the following, as in force at a particular

time or as in force from time to time:

(i) the provisions of an Act;

(ii) the provisions of a legislative instrument covered by

subsection (3);

(iii) the provisions of rules of court; or

(b) subject to subsection (2), by applying, adopting or

incorporating, with or without modification, any matter

contained in any other instrument or writing as in force or

existing at:

(i) the time the first-mentioned instrument commences; or

(ii) a time before the first-mentioned instrument commences

(whether or not the other instrument is still in force, or

the other writing still exists, at the time the

first-mentioned instrument commences).

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, the legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument may not make provision in relation to a

matter by applying, adopting or incorporating any matter contained

in an instrument or other writing as in force or existing from time

to time.

(3) The following legislative instruments are covered by this

subsection:

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(a) disallowable legislative instruments;

(b) legislative instruments that were disallowable under the Acts

Interpretation Act 1901 or any other Act at any time before

1 January 2005.

Note: The substantive provisions of this Act commenced on 1 January 2005.

Forms

(4) If a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument provides for a

form to be used, this section does not apply in relation to the form.

Note: This section has a parallel, in relation to instruments that are not

legislative instruments, in section 46AA of the Acts Interpretation

Act 1901.

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The Federal Register of Legislation contains the following:

• Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments as

made, and explanatory statements for legislative instruments;

• compilations of Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments;

• other relevant documents and information.

Rule-makers for legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

are responsible for lodging the instruments for registration

(together with explanatory statements for legislative instruments).

Legislative instruments are not enforceable unless registered.

Responsible persons for Acts, and rule-makers for legislative

instruments or notifiable instruments, must notify the First

Parliamentary Counsel of some events affecting the status of the

Acts or instruments.

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15A Federal Register of Legislation—establishment and

maintenance

(1) The First Parliamentary Counsel must establish and maintain a

to be known as the Federal Register of Legislation.

Note 1: The contents of the Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed

on the approved website (see section 15C).

Note 2: The Federal Register of Legislation in its initial form consists of the

following:

(a) the contents of the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments established under this Act, when this Act was known as the Legislative Instruments Act 2003;

(b) the contents of the Acts database under the Acts Publication Act 1905 (which was repealed when this section commenced);

(2) The Register must contain the following:

(a) Acts as made that are registered under this Part;

(b) legislative instruments and notifiable instruments as made

that are registered under this Part;

instruments and notifiable instruments;

(d) explanatory statements, registered under this Part, for

legislative instruments;

(e) other documents registered under this Part.

(3) The Register may contain additional documents if the First

Parliamentary Counsel considers that the documents are likely to

be useful to users of the Register, including the following (without

limitation):

(a) Acts as made (other than Acts registered under this Part);

(b) instruments as made (other than legislative instruments or

notifiable instruments registered under this Part);

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(d) compilations of Acts or instruments (other than compilations

registered under this Part);

(e) documents that may be considered under section 15AB of the

Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (and that section as applied by

section 13 of this Act) in working out the meaning of an Act,

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument, for example,

an explanatory memorandum for an Act.

(4) The First Parliamentary Counsel may include in the Register any

information that he or she considers likely to be useful to users of

the Register.

(5) Without limiting subsection (1), the First Parliamentary Counsel

may, subject to this Act and the rules, do anything he or she

considers necessary or desirable to ensure that the Register is

accurate and up-to-date, and contains material likely to be useful to

users of the Register.

15B Federal Register of Legislation—complete record of registered

laws

The Federal Register of Legislation is, for all purposes, taken to be

a complete and accurate record of all registered Acts, legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments.

Note: For authorised versions of Acts, legislative instruments, notifiable

instruments and compilations, and judicial notice of authorised

versions, see Part 3 of this Chapter.

15C Federal Register of Legislation—access to registered material

on approved website

The First Parliamentary Counsel must ensure that registered Acts,

legislative instruments, notifiable instruments and compilations,

and other registered documents, are available to the public on a

website (an approved website) prescribed by the rules.

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15D Federal Register of Legislation—rectification of Register

(1) If:

(a) the First Parliamentary Counsel becomes aware that the

(b) the error is that:

(i) for an Act as assented to—the text of the Act as it

appears in the Register is not the same as the text of the

Act as assented to; or

(ii) for a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument as

made by the rule-maker—the text of the instrument as it

appears in the Register is not the same as the text of the

instrument as made by the rule-maker; or

(iii) for a compilation—the compilation as it appears in the

purports to represent; or

(iv) for any other document on the Register—the text of the

document as it appears in the Register is not the same as

the text of the original document;

the First Parliamentary Counsel must arrange for the error in the

Note: A disallowable legislative instrument may be required to be re-tabled

in the Parliament as a result of the rectification (see section 15DA).

(2) The First Parliamentary Counsel must include in the Register a

statement that the rectification has been made, and a brief outline

of the rectification in general terms.

(3) The rectification:

(a) does not affect any right or privilege that was acquired, or

that accrued, because of reliance on the content of the

(b) does not impose or increase any obligation or liability that

was incurred before the rectification was made.

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Rectification does not affect time of registration

(4) To avoid doubt, the rectification of an error under subsection (1) in

relation to an instrument does not affect the time at which the

instrument is taken to have been registered.

Note: For example, subsection (1) does not affect the commencement of an

instrument that is expressed to commence on the day after registration.

15DA Requirement for re-tabling and new disallowance period after

rectification of Register

(1) This section applies if:

(a) the First Parliamentary Counsel rectifies an error in the

(b) the rectification results in a version (the originally tabled

version) of a disallowable legislative instrument that was

previously registered being replaced by another version (the

correct version) of the instrument; and

the instrument has been laid before either or both Houses of

the Parliament under subsection 38(1).

Requirement for re-tabling

(2) The First Parliamentary Counsel must arrange for a copy of the

correct version of the instrument to be delivered to each House of

the Parliament to be laid before each House within 6 sitting days of

that House after the rectification.

Note: The re-tabling of the instrument does not affect any disallowance of

the instrument. In all other cases, the re-tabling of the instrument starts

a new disallowance period (see subsections (3) and (4)).

Application of new disallowance period

(3) The following applies (subject to subsection (4)) for the purposes

of this Act:

(a) the instrument is taken to have been delivered to, and laid

before, a House of the Parliament under subsection 38(1)

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when the instrument is delivered to, and laid before, that

House under subsection (2) of this section (except for the

purposes of subsection 39(2));

(b) the instrument becomes subject to disallowance under Part 2

of Chapter 3;

the time of the rectification;

(d) if the disallowance period for the originally tabled version

has ended—any repeal of the instrument or a provision of the

instrument under section 48A or 48C is taken not to have

occurred;

(e) if:

(i) a notice of motion to disallow the instrument or a

provision of the instrument has been given in a House of

the Parliament; and

(ii) the notice has not been withdrawn; and

(iii) the motion has not been disposed of;

at the time the correct version of the instrument is laid before

a House as mentioned in subsection (2)—that notice of

motion is taken to have been given in that House on the

sitting day of that House after the correct version of the

instrument is laid before that House;

(f) if a provision of the instrument (but not the whole

instrument) has previously been disallowed—the laying

before a House of the Parliament as mentioned in

subsection (2) does not affect the previous disallowance of

the provision.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to an instrument if, at the

time the instrument is delivered to a House of the Parliament under

subsection (2), the instrument has been disallowed.

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(5) To avoid doubt, the laying before a House of the Parliament of an

instrument as mentioned in subsection (2) does not affect the time

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at which the instrument is taken to have been registered (except as

provided by paragraph (3)(c)).

15E Federal Register of Legislation—keeping the Register

The rules may provide for, or in relation to, the following:

(a) keeping the Federal Register of Legislation;

(b) giving unique identifiers to registered Acts, legislative

instruments, notifiable instruments and compilations, and

other registered documents;

instruments and other documents in the Register;

(d) including additional documents in the Register and removing

them from the Register;

(e) including information in the Register, changing it and

removing it from the Register.

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15F Registration of Acts

The First Parliamentary Counsel must register an Act as soon as

practicable after the Act is assented to.

15G Lodgement of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments, and other material

Legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

(1) The rule-maker for a legislative instrument must lodge the

instrument for registration as a legislative instrument as soon as

practicable after the instrument is made.

(2) The rule-maker for a notifiable instrument must lodge the

instrument for registration as a notifiable instrument as soon as

practicable after the instrument is made.

(3) The rule-maker for an instrument made under a power delegated by

the Parliament, other than a legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument, may lodge the instrument for registration as a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument.

Note: For instruments that become legislative instruments by registration,

see subsection 8(3). For instruments that become notifiable

instruments by registration, see paragraph 11(2)(c).

Explanatory statements for legislative instruments

(4) The rule-maker for an instrument that is lodged for registration as a

legislative instrument must:

(a) lodge an initial explanatory statement for the instrument for

registration as soon as practicable after the instrument is

lodged for registration; and

(b) lodge any supplementary explanatory statement or

replacement explanatory statement for the instrument for

registration as soon as practicable after it is prepared.

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Note: For explanatory statements and supplementary and replacement

explanatory statements, see section 15J.

Other documents

(5) The rule-maker for an instrument that is, or that is to be, registered

as a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument may lodge a

document that relates to the instrument for registration.

15H Registration of legislative instruments and notifiable

instruments, and other documents

(1) If an instrument is lodged for registration as a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument in accordance with section 15G

and the rules, the First Parliamentary Counsel must register the

instrument:

(a) if the instrument is lodged for registration as a legislative

instrument—as a legislative instrument; or

(b) if the instrument is lodged for registration as a notifiable

instrument—as a notifiable instrument.

(2) If an instrument or document is lodged for registration otherwise

than as a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument, in

accordance with section 15G and the rules, the First Parliamentary

Counsel must register the instrument or document accordingly.

(3) However, the First Parliamentary Counsel must not register an

instrument or document if:

(a) for a document lodged for registration otherwise than as a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument—the First

Parliamentary Counsel considers that:

(i) the document is not likely to be useful to users of the

(ii) it would otherwise be inappropriate to register the

document; or

(b) before the instrument or document is registered, the person

lodging the instrument or document (or another person acting

on behalf of the responsible person for the instrument, or for

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the instrument to which the document relates) withdraws the

lodgement.

(4) If the First Parliamentary Counsel does not register an instrument

or document because of paragraph (3)(a), he or she must give

written notice to the person lodging the instrument or document.

15J Explanatory statements

Definition of explanatory statement

(1) An explanatory statement for a legislative instrument is one of the

following statements prepared for laying before each House of

Parliament:

(a) a statement (an initial explanatory statement) for the

instrument that complies with subsection (2);

(b) a statement (a replacement explanatory statement) for the

instrument that:

(i) replaces an explanatory statement for the instrument

that has already been registered; and

(ii) complies with subsection (2);

instrument that:

(i) amends an initial explanatory statement or a

replacement explanatory statement; and

(ii) complies with subsection (3).

Requirements for initial and replacement explanatory statements

(2) An initial explanatory statement, or a replacement explanatory

statement, for a legislative instrument must:

(a) be approved by the rule-maker; and

(b) explain the purpose and operation of the instrument; and

reference—contain a description of the incorporated

documents and indicate how they may be obtained; and

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(d) if consultation was undertaken under section 17 before the

instrument was made—contain a description of the nature of

that consultation; and

(e) if no such consultation was undertaken—explain why no

such consultation was undertaken; and

(f) if the instrument is a disallowable legislative instrument—

contain a statement of compatibility prepared under

subsection 9(1) of the Human Rights (Parliamentary

Scrutiny) Act 2011; and

(g) contain such other information as is prescribed by regulation.

Requirements for supplementary explanatory statements

(3) A supplementary explanatory statement for a legislative instrument

must:

(a) be approved by the rule-maker; and

(b) contain such other information as is prescribed by regulation.

Single explanatory statements—one or more legislative instruments

(4) A single explanatory statement may relate to one or more

legislative instruments.

15K Registration—enforceability of legislative instruments

(1) A legislative instrument is not enforceable by or against any person

(including the Commonwealth) unless the instrument is registered

as a legislative instrument.

(2) A failure by the rule-maker to lodge an explanatory statement in

relation to a legislative instrument for registration as required by

subsection 15G(4) does not affect the validity or enforceability of

the instrument.

15L Events affecting the currency or accuracy of the Register

(1) The responsible person for a registered Act, legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument must give notice to the First Parliamentary

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Counsel of the occurrence of any of the following events in

relation to the Act or instrument:

(a) an event resulting in, or otherwise affecting, the

commencement of the Act or instrument (or a provision of

the Act or instrument);

(b) a discretionary compilation event for the Act or instrument;

the Act or instrument) being repealed, lapsing, expiring or

otherwise ceasing to be in force;

(d) an event resulting in the Act or instrument, or a provision of

the Act or instrument, being (or being declared by a court or

tribunal to be) invalid or unenforceable;

(e) the responsible person’s becoming aware of:

(i) an error in the Register to which subsection 15D(1)

(Federal Register of Legislation—rectification of

(ii) any other error in the Register;

(f) another event prescribed by the rules.

Example: If a registered legislative instrument is expressed to commence when a

particular treaty comes into force for Australia, paragraph (1)(a)

would require the responsible person for the instrument to notify the

First Parliamentary Counsel when the treaty comes into force.

(2) However, subsection (1) does not require the responsible person to

give notice to the First Parliamentary Counsel of any of the

following events in relation to a registered Act or instrument:

(a) the occurrence of a day or time specified in the Act or

instrument, or the making of a commencement instrument,

resulting in, or otherwise affecting, the commencement of the

Act or instrument (or a provision of the Act or instrument);

(b) a required compilation event for the Act or instrument;

of:

(i) the instrument (or a provision of the instrument); or

(ii) another legislative instrument (or a provision of another

legislative instrument) that amends the instrument;

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(d) for a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument—the

amendment or repeal of the instrument by:

(i) the operation of Part 3 of Chapter 3 (repeal of spent

instruments or provisions); or

(ii) the operation of Part 4 of Chapter 3 (sunsetting of

legislative instruments);

(e) another event prescribed by the rules.

15M Rules for lodgement and registration

The rules may provide for, or in relation to, any of the following:

(a) the lodgement of instruments and documents for registration,

including any or all of the following:

(i) the form in which instruments and documents must or

may be lodged;

(ii) any other matters affecting how instruments and

documents must or may be lodged;

(iii) the information that must or may be provided with

instruments and documents;

(iv) the certification of instruments and documents;

(v) other requirements to be satisfied for lodgement;

(b) the identification of instruments and documents lodged for

registration, including authorising the First Parliamentary

Counsel to do any or all of the following:

(i) adding a name to an unnamed instrument or document;

(ii) amending the name of an instrument or document;

(iii) adding anything to an instrument or document to assist

in its identification;

(iv) doing anything else in relation to an instrument or

document to assist users of the Register to identify or

refer to the instrument or document;

(d) the registration of Acts, instruments and documents;

(e) the refusal of registration of instruments and documents;

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(f) alternative arrangements for the registration of Acts,

instruments and documents in the event of technical

difficulties;

(g) any other matter relating to the lodgement of instruments and

documents;

(h) any other matter relating to the registration of Acts,

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15N Simplified outline of this Part

A compilation shows the text of an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument as amended (if at all) and in force on the

compilation date stated in the Act or instrument.

The First Parliamentary Counsel must generally register a

compilation after a registered Act or instrument is amended, and in

some other circumstances.

A rule-maker for a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument

must lodge a compilation for registration if the instrument is

amended, or in some circumstances on notice from the First

Parliamentary Counsel.

The First Parliamentary Counsel may make editorial changes and

some other changes in preparing a compilation of a registered Act

or instrument, as long as they do not change the effect of the Act or

instrument.

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15P Registered compilations—information requirements

(1) Without limiting the information that a registered compilation of

an Act, legislative instrument or notifiable instrument (the

principal law) may include, the registered compilation must

include the following information:

(a) the compilation date;

(b) if any editorial changes are made in preparing the

compilation—a statement that editorial changes have been

made and a brief outline of the changes in general terms;

instrument that amends the principal law;

(d) the amendment history of provisions of the principal law;

(e) any further information prescribed by the rules.

(2) However, the information mentioned in any of paragraphs (1)(c) to

(e) does not need to be included in the compilation if:

(a) the First Parliamentary Counsel is satisfied that the

information mentioned in that paragraph is otherwise

appropriately available on an approved website to users of

the Federal Register of Legislation; and

(b) the compilation indicates in general terms how users of the

website.

15Q Definitions of required compilation event and discretionary

compilation event etc.

Definitions

(1) A required compilation event occurs for an Act, legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument when:

(a) the Act or instrument is expressly amended (otherwise than

under section 48C or 48D); or

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(b) in the case of a disallowable legislative instrument:

(i) a provision of the instrument is disallowed under

section 42; or

(ii) a provision of another disallowable legislative

instrument has amended a provision of the instrument,

but the amending instrument, or the amending

provision, is disallowed under section 42; or

Act or instrument (other than this Act), or because of the

making of another Act or instrument; or

(d) something else happens that is prescribed by the rules for the

purposes of this paragraph.

(2) A discretionary compilation event occurs for an Act, legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument when:

(a) a provision of the Act or instrument commences; or

(b) in the case of a legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument—the instrument is amended by section 48C or

48D; or

(d) the Act or instrument is impliedly amended; or

(e) a provision of the Act or instrument is repealed under another

provision of that Act or instrument; or

(f) if no compilation has been registered for the Act or

instrument—the text of the Act or instrument as registered

otherwise ceases to show the text of the Act or instrument as

in force; or

(g) if a compilation has been registered for the Act or

instrument—the text of the latest registered compilation

otherwise ceases to show the text of the Act or instrument as

amended (if at all) and in force; or

(h) something else happens that is prescribed by the rules for the

purposes of this paragraph.

Note: Sections 48C and 48D provide for the automatic repeal of amending,

repealing and commencement provisions of legislative instruments

and notifiable instruments.

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When an Act or instrument is amended

(3) For the purposes of this Division, an Act or instrument is (subject

to subsection (4)) amended by an Act or instrument, or a provision

of an Act or instrument, when the amending Act or provision

commences.

(4) Despite any other provision of this Act, a compilation of an Act or

instrument is not required to be prepared or lodged for registration

to take account of a retrospective commencement of an amendment

of the Act or instrument. However, such a compilation of an Act or

instrument may be prepared and lodged for registration.

15R Lodgement of compilations of instruments—required

compilation events

Compilation required to be prepared and lodged

(1) If a required compilation event occurs for a legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument, the rule-maker must prepare and lodge for

registration a compilation of the instrument for registration.

Compilation date

(2) The compilation date for the compilation must be the date of the

required compilation event.

Time for lodgement

(3) The rule-maker must lodge for registration the compilation

required by subsection (1) within 28 days after the event occurs, or

a longer period allowed by the First Parliamentary Counsel.

Exceptions

(4) This section does not apply to legislative instruments or notifiable

instruments, or in circumstances, prescribed by rules made for the

purposes of this subsection.

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Example: A circumstance prescribed by the rules may be if the First

Parliamentary Counsel prepares and registers a compilation of a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument.

15S Lodgement of compilations of instruments—discretionary

compilation events

Compilation required to be prepared and lodged if notice given

(1) If a discretionary compilation event occurs for a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument, the First Parliamentary

Counsel may, by written notice given to the rule-maker, require the

rule-maker, within a period stated in the notice, to prepare and

lodge for registration a compilation of the instrument for

registration.

Compilation date

(2) The compilation date for the compilation must be the date of the

discretionary compilation event.

Time for lodgement

(3) If a notice is given under subsection (1) to a rule-maker for an

instrument, the rule-maker must lodge for registration a

compilation of the instrument within the period stated in the notice,

or a longer period allowed by the First Parliamentary Counsel.

15T Registration of compilations

Required compilation events for Acts

(1) If a required compilation event occurs for an Act, the First

Parliamentary Counsel must prepare and register a compilation of

the Act as soon as practicable afterwards.

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Required compilation events for instruments

(2) If a required compilation event occurs for a legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument, the First Parliamentary Counsel must

(a) if a compilation is lodged for registration within 28 days after

the event, or within a longer period allowed by the First

Parliamentary Counsel—as soon as practicable after

lodgement; or

(b) if a compilation is not lodged for registration within that

period—as soon as practicable after the end of the period.

(3) However, if a required compilation event occurs for a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument, and section 15R does not apply

because of subsection 15R(4), the First Parliamentary Counsel

must prepare and register a compilation of the instrument as soon

as practicable afterwards.

Discretionary compilation events for Acts and instruments

(4) If a discretionary compilation event occurs for an Act or a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument, the First

Parliamentary Counsel may prepare and register a compilation of

the Act or instrument.

(5) If a discretionary compilation event occurs for a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument, and the First Parliamentary

Counsel gives the rule-maker for the instrument a notice under

section 15S, the First Parliamentary Counsel must register a

compilation of the instrument:

(a) if a compilation is lodged for registration within the period

stated in the notice, or within a longer period allowed by the

First Parliamentary Counsel—as soon as practicable after

lodgement; or

(b) if a compilation is not lodged for registration within that

period—as soon as practicable after the end of the period.

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No required or discretionary compilation event for Act or

instrument

(6) The First Parliamentary Counsel may prepare and register a

compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument even if neither a required compilation event nor a

discretionary compilation event has occurred for the Act or

instrument.

Repeal and disallowance of Act or instrument

(7) The First Parliamentary Counsel must ensure that a registered

compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument is no longer shown on the Register as a compilation

currently in force as soon as practicable after:

(a) the Act or instrument is repealed; or

(b) for a disallowable legislative instrument—the instrument is

disallowed under section 42.

15U Compilations—rules

The rules may provide for, or in relation to, any of the following in

relation to compilations of Acts, legislative instruments or

notifiable instruments:

(a) the format, layout and printing style required for

compilations, and any other presentational aspects of

compilations;

(b) the extent and form of the information mentioned in

subsection 15P(1) or (2) that is required to be included in

compilations, or made available on an approved website;

(d) the lodgement of compilations of instruments for registration,

including any of the following:

(i) the form in which compilations must or may be lodged;

(ii) how compilations must or may be lodged;

(iii) the information that must or may be provided with or

for compilations;

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(iv) the certification of compilations;

(v) other requirements to be satisfied for compilations;

(e) the withdrawal of lodgement of compilations of instruments;

(f) the registration of compilations of Acts and instruments;

(g) the refusal of registration of compilations of instruments;

(h) alternative arrangements for the registration of compilations

of Acts, and for the lodgement and registration of

compilations of instruments, in the event of technical

difficulties;

(i) any other matter relating to the lodgement or registration of

compilations of Acts or instruments.

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15V Power to make editorial changes and other changes

Editorial changes

(1) In preparing a compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument for registration (including a compilation that

has been lodged for registration), the First Parliamentary Counsel

may make editorial changes to any text that is part of the Act or

instrument.

Note 1: For what is an editorial change, see section 15X.

Note 2: For what text forms part of the Act or instrument, see section 13 of the

Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (which applies in relation to instruments

under section 13 of this Act).

(2) The First Parliamentary Counsel may make an editorial change to

an Act or instrument under subsection (1) only if he or she

considers the change to be desirable to:

(a) bring the Act or instrument into line, or more closely into

line, with legislative drafting practice being used by the

Office of Parliamentary Counsel; or

(b) correct an error, or ensure that a misdescribed amendment of

the Act or instrument is given effect to as intended.

Presentational changes

(3) In preparing a compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument for registration (including a compilation that

has been lodged for registration), the First Parliamentary Counsel

may make changes to the Act or instrument that affect the format,

layout or printing style of the Act or instrument, or any other

presentational aspect of the Act or instrument.

(4) The First Parliamentary Counsel may make a change to an Act or

instrument under subsection (3) only if he or she considers the

change to be desirable to bring the Act or instrument into line, or

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more closely into line, with legislative drafting practice being used

by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.

Text not part of an Act or instrument

(5) In preparing a compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument (including a compilation that has been lodged

for registration), the First Parliamentary Counsel may include, omit

or change any text that is not part of the Act or instrument,

including (without limitation) any of the following:

(a) a table of contents or other provision that only describes the

arrangement of the Act or instrument (or provisions of the

Act or instrument) into groups of provisions;

(b) a reader’s guide, simplified outline or similar text that only

describes the nature or effect of the Act or instrument;

form part of the Act or instrument because of

subsection 13(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901

(including that subsection as applied by section 13 of this

Act);

(d) for an instrument—instrument-making words.

Note: For paragraph (c), alternative text may, for example, aurally indicate

the effect of a graphic image in an Act or instrument to assist users of

an approved website who have visual disabilities.

No change of effect

(6) The First Parliamentary Counsel must not make a change to an Act

or instrument under this section that would change the effect of the

Act or instrument.

(7) Subsection (6) does not prevent the First Parliamentary Counsel

making a change to an Act or instrument mentioned in

paragraph (2)(m) of the definition of editorial change in

subsection 15X(2), or any editorial change consequential on such a

change, as mentioned in paragraph (2)(q) of that definition.

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Note: Such a change consists of the incorporation into an Act or instrument

of an application, savings, transitional, validation or similar provision

that is contained in an amending Act or instrument.

15W Editorial changes treated in the same way as amendments

If the First Parliamentary Counsel makes an editorial change to an

Act or instrument under section 15V in preparing a compilation,

then, after the registration of the compilation:

(a) the Act or instrument has effect for all purposes as if the

change had been made by an amendment of the Act or

instrument that commenced on the day the compilation was

registered; and

(b) the Act or instrument may be further amended as if the

change had been made by an amendment of the Act or

instrument.

15X Definition of editorial change

(1) This section describes the kinds of editorial changes that the First

Parliamentary Counsel may make to an Act, legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument under section 15V in preparing a

compilation of the Act or instrument.

Note: An editorial change cannot be made to an Act, legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument if it would change the effect of the Act or

instrument (see subsection 15V(6)).

(2) An editorial change to an Act, legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument is a change made by the First Parliamentary Counsel

that:

(a) goes only to a matter of spelling, punctuation, grammar or

syntax, or the use of conjunctives and disjunctives; or

(b) updates a reference to:

(i) a law covered by subsection (3) (or a provision of such

a law); or

(ii) a person, body or other entity, or an office, position,

place, document or thing; or

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instrument, or the name of the types of provision in an

instrument; or

(d) numbers or renumbers a provision of the Act or instrument;

(e) changes the order of definitions or other provisions of the Act

or instrument; or

(f) replaces a reference to a provision of a law covered by

subsection (3) with a different form of reference to the

provision; or

(g) changes the way of referring to or expressing a number, year,

date, time, amount of money or other amount, penalty,

quantity, measurement or other matter, idea or concept; or

Example:A reference in a form to “this [blank] day of [blank] 19…” may be changed to “[Date]”.

(h) changes language that indicates gender or that could be taken

to indicate gender; or

(i) omits or changes a table of contents or other provision that

only describes the arrangement of the Act or instrument (or

provisions of the Act or instrument) into groups of

provisions; or

(j) omits or changes a reader’s guide, simplified outline or other

text that only describes the nature or effect of the Act or

instrument; or

(k) omits a provision, or a reference to a law covered by

subsection (3) (or a provision of such a law) that has expired,

the operation of which is exhausted or spent, or that is

otherwise obsolete or redundant; or

(l) omits, inserts or changes a term that identifies a provision of

the Act or instrument as a provision, or part of a provision, of

the Act or instrument; or

Examples: The following are examples of references to provisions:

(a) of these regulations;

(b) of this regulation;

(d) hereof;

(e) said.

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(m) incorporates into the Act or instrument (the principal law) an

application, savings, transitional, validation or similar

provision that is contained in another Act or instrument that

amends the principal law; or

(n) shows the effect of any amendment of the Act or instrument,

or is consequential on any such amendment; or

Example: The heading to a section may be changed to reflect the effect of an amendment of the section.

(o) if an amendment of the Act or instrument is misdescribed by

an amending Act or instrument—gives effect to the

misdescribed amendment as intended; or

(p) corrects an error covered by subsection (4); or

(q) is consequential on any other editorial change made to the

Act or instrument or to another Act or instrument.

(3) This subsection covers the following laws:

(a) an Act;

(b) an instrument made under an Act or another power given by

law;

instrument made under such an Act.

(4) This subsection covers the following errors:

(a) typographical and clerical errors;

(b) grammatical and spelling errors, and errors of punctuation;

ordering;

(d) errors in references to laws or instruments, or provisions of

such laws, covered by subsection (3);

(e) errors in or arising out of an amendment of an Act or

instrument, including errors relating to the number of times

such an amendment is expressed to be made;

(f) any other errors of a nature similar to those mentioned in

paragraphs (a) to (e).

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15Y Simplified outline of this Part

Authorised versions of registered Acts, legislative instruments,

notifiable instruments, explanatory statements for legislative

instruments and compilations may be sourced from the approved

website. Judicial notice may be taken of authorised versions and

related matters.

15Z Scope of this Part

This Part applies in relation to each of the following documents (a

registered law or explanatory statement) and, in the same way, to

a provision or part of each document:

(a) a registered Act;

(b) a registered legislative instrument or notifiable instrument;

instrument;

(d) a registered compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument.

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15ZA Authorised versions

Authorised electronic versions

(1) An electronic copy of a registered law or explanatory statement is

an authorised version of the registered law or explanatory

statement if:

(a) the electronic copy is accessed at, or downloaded from, an

approved website in a format prescribed by the rules; and

(b) either:

(i) the website indicates, in a way prescribed by the rules,

that such a copy is an authorised version; or

(ii) the electronic copy indicates, in a way prescribed by the

rules, that it is an authorised version.

Example: For paragraph (a), a locked pdf file may be a format prescribed by the

rules.

(2) An electronic copy of a registered law or explanatory statement is

an authorised version of the registered law or explanatory

statement if:

(a) it is in a format prescribed by the rules; and

(b) the electronic copy indicates, in a way prescribed by the

rules, that it is an authorised version.

Example: For paragraph (a), a locked pdf file may be a format prescribed by the

rules.

Authorised printed versions

(3) A printed copy of a registered law or explanatory statement is an

authorised version of the registered law or explanatory statement

if the copy indicates, in a way prescribed by the rules, that it is an

authorised version.

(4) A printed copy of a registered law or explanatory statement is an

authorised version of the registered law or explanatory statement

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if the copy is produced directly from another version of the

registered law or explanatory statement that is an authorised

version under subsection (1), (2) or (3), or this subsection.

Presumptions about an approved website and registered laws or

explanatory statements

(5) It is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that:

(a) a website purporting to be an approved website is an

approved website; and

(b) if accessed at a website mentioned in paragraph (a), an Act, a

legislative instrument, a notifiable instrument, an explanatory

statement for a legislative instrument or a compilation of an

Act or a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument is

registered; and

statement accessed at, or downloaded from, an approved

website is an authorised version under subsection (1), if:

(i) the website indicates (in any way) that such a copy is an

authorised version; or

(ii) the copy indicates (in any way) that the copy is an

authorised version; and

(d) an electronic copy of a registered law or explanatory

statement is an authorised version under subsection (2) if the

copy indicates (in any way) that it is an authorised version;

and

(e) a printed copy of a registered law or explanatory statement is

an authorised version under subsection (3) or (4) if the copy

indicates (in any way) that it is an authorised version; and

(f) an authorised version of a registered Act, legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument, as made, correctly shows

the text of the Act or instrument as made; and

(g) an authorised version of a registered explanatory statement

for a legislative instrument correctly shows the text of the

statement as approved by the rule-maker (under

subsection 15J(2) or (3)); and

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(h) subject to subsection 15Q(4), an authorised version of a

registered compilation of an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument correctly shows the text of the Act or

instrument as amended (if at all) and in force on the

compilation date.

Forms of indication

(6) A way of indicating that is prescribed by rules made for the

purposes of subsection (1), (2) or (3), or an indication mentioned in

paragraph (5)(c), (d) or (e), may include an indication consisting of

any text, including one or more of the following:

(a) a logo;

(b) a form of words;

statement, prescribed by the rules.

15ZB Judicial notice

(1) In proceedings in a court or tribunal, proof is not required about

any of the following:

(a) the assent, and the day of assent, of an Act;

(b) the making, and the day of making, of a registered legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument;

(d) the registration, and day of registration, of a registered law or

explanatory statement;

(e) the commencement of a registered Act, legislative instrument

or notifiable instrument, or any provision of a registered Act,

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument;

(f) editorial changes made to an Act, legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument in preparing a registered compilation of

the Act or instrument;

(g) the text and compilation date of a registered compilation of

an Act, legislative instrument or notifiable instrument;

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(h) whether a copy of a registered law or explanatory statement

is an authorised version of the registered law or explanatory

statement.

(2) A court or tribunal may inform itself of anything mentioned in

subsection (1) in any way it considers appropriate.

(3) However, the court or tribunal must consider whether the source it

intends to use appears to be a reliable source of information.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), an authorised version of a

registered law or explanatory statement is, subject to

subsection 15Q(4), a reliable source of information.

(5) This section does not limit any other law providing how a court or

tribunal may be informed about a matter mentioned in

subsection (1).

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The First Parliamentary Counsel is responsible for promoting the

legal effectiveness, clarity and intelligibility of legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments.

Before a legislative instrument is made, the rule-maker must be

satisfied that any consultation that is appropriate and reasonably

practicable has taken place.

16 Measures to achieve high drafting standards for legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments

(1) To encourage high standards in the drafting of legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments, the First Parliamentary

Counsel must cause steps to be taken to promote the legal

effectiveness, clarity, and intelligibility to anticipated users, of

legislative instruments and notifiable instruments.

(2) The steps referred to in subsection (1) may include, but are not

limited to:

(a) undertaking or supervising the drafting of legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments; and

(b) scrutinising preliminary drafts of legislative instruments and

notifiable instruments; and

instruments and notifiable instruments; and

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(d) providing training in drafting and matters related to drafting

to officers and employees of Departments or other agencies;

and

(e) arranging the temporary secondment to Departments or other

agencies of APS employees performing duties in the Office

of Parliamentary Counsel; and

(f) providing drafting precedents to officers and employees of

Departments or other agencies.

(3) The First Parliamentary Counsel must also cause steps to be taken:

(a) to prevent the use of gender-specific language in legislative

instruments and notifiable instruments in circumstances

where it is not necessary to identify persons by their sex; and

(b) to advise rule-makers for registered legislative instruments or

notifiable instruments if those instruments use

gender-specific language in those circumstances; and

when a rule-maker is advised under paragraph (b).

17 Rule-makers should consult before making legislative

instruments

(1) Before a legislative instrument is made, the rule-maker must be

satisfied that there has been undertaken any consultation that is:

(a) considered by the rule-maker to be appropriate; and

(b) reasonably practicable to undertake.

(2) In determining whether any consultation that was undertaken is

appropriate, the rule-maker may have regard to any relevant

matter, including the extent to which the consultation:

(a) drew on the knowledge of persons having expertise in fields

relevant to the proposed instrument; and

(b) ensured that persons likely to be affected by the proposed

instrument had an adequate opportunity to comment on its

proposed content.

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(3) Without limiting, by implication, the form that consultation

referred to in subsection (1) might take, such consultation could

involve notification, either directly or by advertisement, of bodies

that, or of organisations representative of persons who, are likely to

be affected by the proposed instrument. Such notification could

invite submissions to be made by a specified date or might invite

participation in public hearings to be held concerning the proposed

instrument.

Note: Under subsection 15J(2), an explanatory statement relating to a

legislative instrument must include a description of consultation

undertaken or, if there was no consultation, an explanation for its

absence.

19 Consequence of failure to consult

The fact that consultation does not occur does not affect the

validity or enforceability of a legislative instrument.

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36 Simplified outline of this Part

The Office of Parliamentary Counsel must generally deliver a

legislative instrument for laying before each House of the

Parliament within 6 sitting days of that House after the instrument

is registered (with the instrument’s registered explanatory

statement, if applicable).

A legislative instrument (or a provision) may be disallowed by

either House within a certain time after the instrument is tabled. A

legislative instrument is taken to be repealed if it is disallowed.

Some legislative instruments are required to be tabled in

Parliament, but are not subject to disallowance.

37 The purpose of the Part

The purpose of this Part is to facilitate the scrutiny by the

Parliament of registered legislative instruments and to set out the

circumstances and manner in which such instruments, or

provisions of such instruments, may be disallowed, as well as the

consequences of such disallowance.

Note: Some legislative instruments are not disallowable (see section 44).

38 Tabling of legislative instruments

(1) The Office of Parliamentary Counsel must arrange for a copy of

each registered legislative instrument to be delivered to each House

of the Parliament to be laid before each House within 6 sitting days

of that House after the registration of the instrument.

(3) If a copy of a legislative instrument is not laid before each House

of the Parliament in accordance with this section, the legislative

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laid.

39 Tabling of explanatory statements

(1) If an explanatory statement for a legislative instrument is

registered, the Office of Parliamentary Counsel must arrange for a

copy of the explanatory statement to be delivered to each House of

the Parliament, to be laid before each House.

(2) The delivery to each House of the Parliament must be arranged:

(a) in the case of an initial explanatory statement:

(i) if practicable, at the same time as a copy of the

instrument is delivered to that House under section 38;

(ii) in any other case—within 6 sitting days of that House

after registration of the explanatory statement; or

(b) in the case of a supplementary explanatory statement or

replacement explanatory statement—within 6 sitting days of

that House after registration of the explanatory statement.

(3) If the initial explanatory statement for a legislative instrument is

lodged by the rule-maker for registration too late for it to be

delivered to a House of the Parliament at the same time as a copy

of the instrument, the rule-maker must, as soon as possible, deliver

to that House a written statement explaining the lateness of

lodgement.

(4) If a replacement explanatory statement replacing an initial

explanatory statement is registered before the initial explanatory

statement is delivered to each House of the Parliament under

subsection (1):

(a) this section stops applying to the initial explanatory

statement; and

(b) this section applies to the replacement explanatory statement

as if it were the initial explanatory statement.

Note: For initial explanatory statements and supplementary and replacement

explanatory statements, see section 15J.

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40 Regulations may specify manner of delivery of certain documents

The regulations may specify the manner, which may include

delivery by an electronic means, by which documents required to

be laid before a House of the Parliament in accordance with

section 38 or 39 may be delivered to that House for that purpose.

41 Incorporated material may be required to be made available

A House of the Parliament may, at any time while a legislative

instrument is subject to disallowance, require any document

incorporated by reference in the instrument to be made available

for inspection by that House:

(a) at a place acceptable to the House; and

(b) at a time specified by the House.

42 Disallowance of legislative instruments

(1) If:

(a) notice of a motion to disallow a legislative instrument or a

provision of a legislative instrument is given in a House of

the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House beginning

on the first sitting day after a copy of the instrument was laid

before that House; and

(b) within 15 sitting days of that House beginning on the first

sitting day after the giving of that notice, the House passes a

resolution, in pursuance of the motion, disallowing the

instrument or provision;

the instrument or provision so disallowed is repealed immediately

after the passing of that resolution.

(2) If:

(a) notice of a motion to disallow a legislative instrument or a

provision of a legislative instrument is given in a House of

the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House beginning

on the first sitting day after a copy of the instrument was laid

before that House; and

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(b) at the end of 15 sitting days of that House beginning on the

first sitting day after the giving of that notice of motion:

(i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has

not been called on; or

(ii) the motion has been called on, moved and (where

relevant) seconded and has not been withdrawn or

otherwise disposed of;

the instrument or provision specified in the motion is then taken to

have been disallowed and is repealed at that time.

(3) If:

(a) notice of a motion to disallow a legislative instrument or a

provision of a legislative instrument is given in a House of

the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House beginning

on the first sitting day after a copy of the instrument was laid

before that House; and

(b) before the end of 15 sitting days of that House beginning on

the first sitting day after the giving of that notice of motion,

the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires, or the

Parliament is prorogued; and

case may be:

(i) the notice has not been withdrawn and the motion has

not been called on; or

(ii) the motion has been called on, moved and (where

relevant) seconded and has not been withdrawn or

otherwise disposed of;

the legislative instrument is taken, for the purposes of

subsections (1) and (2), to have been laid before the

first-mentioned House on the first sitting day of that

first-mentioned House after the dissolution, expiry or prorogation,

as the case may be.

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44 Legislative instruments that are not subject to disallowance

(1) Section 42 does not apply in relation to a legislative instrument, or

a provision of a legislative instrument if the enabling legislation for

the instrument (not being the Corporations Act 2001):

(a) facilitates the establishment or operation of an

intergovernmental body or scheme involving the

Commonwealth and one or more States or Territories; and

(b) authorises the instrument to be made by the body or for the

purposes of the body or scheme;

unless the instrument is a regulation, or the enabling legislation or

some other Act has the effect that the instrument is disallowable.

(2) Section 42 does not apply in relation to a legislative instrument, or

a provision of a legislative instrument, if:

(a) an Act declares, or has the effect, that section 42 does not

apply in relation to the instrument or provision; or

(b) the legislative instrument is prescribed by regulation for the

purposes of this paragraph.

(3) Prescribing a kind of instrument by regulation for the purposes of

paragraph (2)(b) does not imply that every instrument of that kind

is a legislative instrument.

45 Reviving a legislative instrument, law or provision

(2) If:

(a) a legislative instrument (the repealing instrument) or a

provision (the repealing provision) of a legislative

instrument is repealed by subsection 38(3) or 42(1) or (2) at a

particular time (the repeal time); and

(b) the repealing instrument or repealing provision wholly or

partly repealed another legislative instrument or law, or a

provision of another legislative instrument or law, that was in

force immediately before the repealing instrument or

repealing provision commenced;

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the instrument, law or provision repealed by the repealing

instrument or repealing provision revives from the repeal time as if

the repealing instrument or repealing provision had not been made.

(3) Subsection (2) does not have the effect of reviving a legislative

instrument, law or provision if, before the date when it would have

been revived, Part 4 (sunsetting of legislative instruments) would

have repealed it had it not already been repealed by the repealing

instrument or the repealing provision.

46 Legislative instruments not to be remade while required to be

tabled

(1) If a legislative instrument (the original legislative instrument) has

been registered, no legislative instrument the same in substance as

the original legislative instrument is to be made during the period

defined by subsection (2) unless both Houses of the Parliament by

resolution approve the making of an instrument the same in

substance as the original legislative instrument.

(2) The period referred to in subsection (1) is the period starting on the

day on which the original legislative instrument was registered and

ending at the end of 7 days after:

(a) if the original legislative instrument has been laid, in

accordance with subsection 38(1), before both Houses of the

Parliament on the same day—that day; or

(b) if the original legislative instrument was so laid before both

Houses on different days—the later of those days; or

before both Houses—the last day on which subsection 38(1)

could have been complied with.

(3) An instrument made in contravention of this section has no effect.

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47 Legislative instruments not to be remade while subject to

disallowance

(1) If notice of a motion to disallow a legislative instrument, or a

provision of a legislative instrument, has been given in a House of

the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House beginning on

the first sitting day after the instrument was laid before that House,

a legislative instrument, or a provision of a legislative instrument,

that is the same in substance as the first-mentioned instrument or

provision, must not be made unless:

(a) the notice has been withdrawn; or

(b) the instrument or provision is taken to have been disallowed

under subsection 42(2); or

(d) subsection 42(3) has applied in relation to the instrument.

(2) If:

(a) because of subsection 42(3), a legislative instrument is taken

to have been laid before a House of the Parliament on a

particular day; and

(b) notice of a motion to disallow the instrument or a provision

of the instrument has been given in that House within 15

sitting days of that House beginning on the first sitting day

after that day;

a legislative instrument, or a provision of a legislative instrument,

that is the same in substance as the first-mentioned instrument or

provision must not be made unless:

(d) the first-mentioned instrument or provision is taken to have

been disallowed under subsection 42(2); or

(e) the motion has been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; or

(f) subsection 42(3) has applied again in relation to the

first-mentioned instrument.

(3) A legislative instrument or a provision of a legislative instrument

made in contravention of this section has no effect.

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48 Remaking disallowed legislative instruments

(1) A legislative instrument or a provision of a legislative instrument

(the later instrument or provision) that is the same in substance as

a legislative instrument or a provision of a legislative instrument

(the disallowed instrument or provision) that has been disallowed

(or is taken to have been disallowed) under subsection 42(1) or (2)

must not be made within 6 months after the day of disallowance.

(2) However, the later instrument or provision may be made within

that time if the relevant House of the Parliament approves, by

resolution, the making of a legislative instrument or provision the

same in substance as the disallowed instrument or provision.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the relevant House of

Parliament is the House of Parliament in which notice was given

of the motion to disallow the disallowed instrument or provision.

(4) A legislative instrument or provision made in contravention of this

section has no effect.

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Division 1A—Simplified outline of this Part

48AA Simplified outline of this Part

A legislative instrument or notifiable instrument (or provision) that

only repeals or amends another instrument, or provides for its

commencement, is itself automatically repealed.

Regulations made under this Act may repeal a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument (or provision) if the

Attorney-General is satisfied that the instrument (or provision) to

be repealed is spent or is no longer required.

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Subdivision A—Repeal of amending and repealing instruments

48A Automatic repeal of amending and repealing instruments

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this section repeals a legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument whose only legal effect is to

amend or repeal one or more other legislative instruments or

notifiable instruments, without making any application, saving or

transitional provisions relating to the amendment or repeal.

(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1), a legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument is not taken to make an application, saving or

transitional provision mentioned in that subsection merely because

the instrument amends another such instrument to make an

application, saving or transitional provision relating to the

amendment or repeal.

Time of repeal

(2) The repeal of the instrument by this section happens on the day

after the latest of the following events occurs, unless the instrument

has been repealed earlier by subsection 38(3) or 42(1) or (2):

(aa) for a disallowable legislative instrument—the end of the last

day on which the instrument or a provision of the instrument

may be disallowed in a House of the Parliament;

(a) for any legislative instrument or notifiable instrument—

whichever of the following is applicable:

(i) the commencement of the instrument, or of the last of

its provisions to commence;

(ii) if the last of its provisions that have not commenced are

repealed, or cannot commence because of the

occurrence of an event—that repeal, or the occurrence

of that event;

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(b) for a legislative instrument to which section 42 does not

apply or for a notifiable instrument—the registration of the

instrument.

Effect of repeal

(3) The repeal of the instrument by this section does not affect any

amendment or repeal made by the instrument. This does not limit

the effect of section 7 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 as it

applies in relation to the repeal of the instrument by this section

because of section 13 of this Act.

Subdivision B—Repeal of commencement instruments

48B Automatic repeal of commencement instruments

(1) This section repeals a commencement instrument that provides for

the commencement of one of the following (a primary law) or a

provision (a primary provision) of one of the following:

(a) an Act;

(b) a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument.

Time of repeal

(2) The repeal of the commencement instrument by this section

happens on the day after the later of the following events occurs:

(a) whichever of the following is applicable:

(i) the commencement (or the last commencement) the

commencement instrument provides for;

(ii) if the commencement instrument provides for the

commencement of a primary law, and the last of the

provisions of the primary law that have not commenced

are repealed—that repeal;

(iii) if the commencement instrument provides for the

commencement of a primary law, and the primary law

(or the last of the provisions of the primary law) cannot

commence because of the occurrence of an event—the

occurrence of that event;

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(iv) if the commencement instrument provides for the

commencement of a primary provision or primary

provisions, and the primary provision (or the last of

those primary provisions) is repealed, or cannot

commence because of the occurrence of an event—that

repeal, or the occurrence of that event;

(b) the registration of the commencement instrument.

Effect of repeal

(3) The repeal of the instrument by this section does not affect any

commencement the instrument provides for. This does not limit the

effect of section 7 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 as it applies

in relation to the repeal of the instrument by this section because of

section 13 of this Act.

Subdivision C—Repeal of amending or repealing provisions of

instruments containing other matter

48C Automatic repeal of amending and repealing provisions

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this section repeals a provision of a

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument if:

(a) the instrument is not an instrument described in

subsection 48A(1); and

(b) the only legal effect of the provision (alone or in conjunction

with other provisions of the instrument) is:

(i) to amend or repeal one or more other legislative

instruments or notifiable instruments; or

(ii) to amend the instrument containing the provision.

Time of repeal

(2) The repeal of the provision by this section happens immediately

after the latest of the following events occurs, unless the provision

has been repealed earlier by subsection 38(3) or 42(1) or (2):

(aa) if the provision is in a disallowable legislative instrument—

the end of the last day on which the instrument or a provision

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of the instrument may be disallowed in a House of the

Parliament;

(a) if the provision is in any legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument—whichever of the following is applicable:

(i) the commencement of the provision;

(ii) if the provision cannot commence because of the

occurrence of an event—the occurrence of that event;

(b) if the provision is in a legislative instrument to which

section 42 does not apply or is in a notifiable instrument—the

registration of the legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument.

Effect of repeal

(3) The repeal of the provision by this section does not affect any

amendment or repeal made by the provision. This does not limit

the effect of section 7 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 as it

applies in relation to the repeal of the provision by this section

because of section 13 of this Act.

Repeal of associated provisions

(5) If subsection (1) repeals a provision of a legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument, this section also repeals the following

provisions:

(a) any other provision (for example, a Schedule) of the

instrument that only identifies another instrument or

provision that is amended or repealed;

(b) any other provision (for example, a Part heading) of the

instrument that only identifies (or groups) provisions that are

amended or repealed.

Note: See also subsection 45(2).

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Subdivision D—Repeal of commencement provisions of

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48D Automatic repeal of commencement provisions

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this section repeals a provision (a

commencement provision) of a legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument, other than a commencement instrument, if the

commencement provision provides solely for the commencement

of one of the following (a primary law) or a provision (a primary

provision) of one of the following:

(a) the instrument;

(b) an Act;

notifiable instrument.

Time of repeal

(2) The repeal of the commencement provision by this section happens

immediately after the latest of the following events occurs, unless

the commencement provision has been repealed earlier by

subsection 38(3) or 42(1) or (2):

(aa) if the commencement provision is in a disallowable

legislative instrument—the end of the last day on which the

instrument or a provision of the instrument may be

disallowed in a House of the Parliament;

(a) if the commencement provision is in any legislative

instrument or notifiable instrument—whichever of the

following is applicable:

(i) the commencement (or the last commencement) the

commencement provision provides for;

(ii) if the commencement provision provides for the

commencement of a primary law, and the last of the

provisions of the primary law that have not commenced

are repealed—that repeal;

(iii) if the commencement provision provides for the

commencement of a primary law, and the primary law

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(or the last of the provisions of the primary law) cannot

commence because of the occurrence of an event—the

occurrence of that event;

(iv) if the commencement provision provides for the

commencement of a primary provision, and the primary

provision is repealed, or cannot commence because of

the occurrence of an event—that repeal, or the

occurrence of that event;

(b) if the commencement provision is in a legislative instrument

to which section 42 does not apply or is in a notifiable

instrument—the registration of the legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument.

Effect of repeal

(3) The repeal of the provision by this section does not affect any

commencement the provision provides for. This does not limit the

effect of section 7 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 as it applies

in relation to the repeal of the provision by this section because of

section 13 of this Act.

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Division 2—Repeal by regulations

48E Regulations may repeal instruments or provisions no longer

required

(1) The regulations may repeal a legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument or a provision of a legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument.

(2) Before the Governor-General makes a regulation for the purposes

of subsection (1), the Attorney-General must be satisfied that the

legislative instrument or notifiable instrument or provision to be

repealed is spent or is no longer required.

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Section 48F

Part 4—Sunsetting of legislative instruments

48F Simplified outline of this Part

Legislative instruments are automatically repealed after a fixed

period of time (subject to some exceptions). The automatic repeal

is called sunsetting.

Generally, legislative instruments sunset on the first 1 April or

1 October on or after the tenth anniversary of their registration. The

Attorney-General may (by legislative instrument) defer sunsetting

in some circumstances.

The Attorney-General must arrange for the tabling in each House

of Parliament of a list of legislative instruments that are due for

sunsetting on the same day. The Office of Parliamentary Counsel

must then arrange for each rule-maker to be given a copy of the

list.

Either House of Parliament may resolve to continue in force a

legislative instrument that would otherwise sunset.

A legislative instrument does not sunset if this Act or a regulation

under this Act, or another Act, provides or has the effect that this

Part does not apply to the instrument.

49 The purpose of the Part

The purpose of this Part is to ensure that legislative instruments are

kept up to date and only remain in force for so long as they are

needed.

Note: Section 54 provides that certain instruments are exempted from the

operation of this Part.

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50 Sunsetting

(1) This subsection repeals a legislative instrument on the first 1 April

or 1 October falling on or after the tenth anniversary of registration

of the instrument, unless the instrument was registered on

1 January 2005.

(2) This subsection repeals a legislative instrument on the day worked

out using the table if the instrument was registered on 1 January

2005.

Day of repeal of legislative instrument registered on 1 January 2005

Year the instrument was made Day of repeal

A year before 1930 1 April 2015

A year in the decade starting on 1 January 1930 1 October 2015

A year in the decade starting on 1 January 1940 1 April 2016

A year in the decade starting on 1 January 1950 1 October 2016

A year in the decade starting on 1 January 1960 1 April 2017

A year in the decade starting on 1 January 1970 1 October 2017

A year in the decade starting on 1 January 1980 1 April 2018

1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 or 1994 1 October 2018

1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 or 1999 1 April 2019

10 2000, 2001 or 2002 1 October 2019

11 2003 or 2004 1 April 2020

Relationship with other provisions

(3) This section has effect subject to Part 3 (repeal of spent legislative

instruments, notifiable instruments and provisions) and sections 51,

51A, 53 and 54.

Note: A legislative instrument may be repealed under Part 3 before it could

be repealed by this section. Section 51 or 51A may repeal a legislative

instrument at a time different from the time when it would be repealed

by this section. Sections 53 and 54 may prevent a legislative

instrument from being repealed by this section.

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Section 51

51 Attorney-General may defer sunsetting in certain circumstances

(1) If:

(a) a legislative instrument would (apart from this section) be

repealed by section 50 or 51A on a particular day (the

sunsetting day); and

(b) the Attorney-General is satisfied, on written application by

the rule-maker:

(i) that the instrument would (apart from the operation of

this Part) be likely to cease to be in force within 24

months after the sunsetting day; or

(ii) that an instrument proposed to be made in substitution

for the instrument will not be able to be completed

before the sunsetting day for reasons that the rule-maker

could not have foreseen and avoided or because the

dissolution or expiration of the House of

Representatives or the prorogation of the Parliament

renders it inappropriate to make a replacement

instrument before a new government is formed; or

(iii) that the Attorney-General has approved this Part not

applying to the instrument;

then:

the first-mentioned instrument is repealed by this section on a

1 April or 1 October that is on or before the second

anniversary of the sunsetting day and that is specified in the

certificate; and

(d) if the Attorney-General issues the certificate, the

first-mentioned instrument is repealed by this section on the

specified day instead of the sunsetting day, unless the

instrument has been repealed earlier.

(3) A certificate issued under paragraph (1)(c) is a legislative

instrument.

(4) Section 42 does not apply to a certificate issued under

paragraph (1)(c) if the day specified in the certificate is on or

before the first anniversary of the sunsetting day.

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(5) The explanatory statement for a certificate issued under

paragraph (1)(c) must include a statement of the reasons for the

issue of the certificate.

51A Attorney-General may align sunsetting of instruments to be

reviewed together

(1) The Attorney-General may by legislative instrument (the

sunset-altering instrument) declare that 2 or more other legislative

instruments (the instruments to be reviewed) are repealed by this

section on a single specified day, if he or she is satisfied, on

application by the rule-maker of the instruments to be reviewed,

that:

(a) all the instruments to be reviewed:

(i) would, apart from this section, be repealed by section 50

or 51; and

(ii) are or will be the subject of a single review; and

(b) the making of the declaration will facilitate the undertaking

of the review or the implementation of its findings.

(2) The day specified in the sunset-altering instrument:

(a) must be 1 April or 1 October of a year; and

(b) must be not more than 5 years after the earliest day on which

any of the instruments to be reviewed would be repealed by

section 50 or 51 apart from this section; and

which any of the instruments to be reviewed would be

repealed by section 50 or 51 apart from this section.

(3) The sunset-altering instrument has effect according to its terms

(subject to Part 2 (parliamentary scrutiny of legislative

instruments), and to section 53 operating on the instruments to be

reviewed).

(4) The explanatory statement for the sunset-altering instrument must

include a statement of the reasons for the making of the instrument.

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Section 52

52 Attorney-General must lay lists of instruments due for sunsetting

before each House of the Parliament

(1) In this section:

list tabling day, in relation to a sunsetting day and to a House of

the Parliament, means the first sitting day of that House occurring

within 18 months before that sunsetting day.

sunsetting day means the first possible day on which any

legislative instrument will be repealed by this Part and each 1 April

and 1 October occurring after that day.

(2) The Attorney-General must arrange for the laying before each

House of the Parliament, on each list tabling day in relation to that

House, of a list of legislative instruments that will be repealed by

section 50, 51 or 51A on the sunsetting day to which that list

tabling day relates.

(3) As soon as practicable after the laying before either House of the

Parliament of a list in accordance with subsection (2), the Office of

Parliamentary Counsel must arrange for a copy of that list to be

provided to the rule-maker responsible for each legislative

instrument appearing on the list.

(4) If subsection (2) requires the Attorney-General to arrange for the

laying of a list of the kind referred to in that subsection before the

Houses of the Parliament on different days, subsection (3) need

only be complied with in relation to the earlier of those days.

53 Resolution that instrument continue in force

(1) A legislative instrument that would otherwise be repealed on a day

(the repeal day) by section 50, 51 or 51A continues in force,

despite those sections, if:

(a) the instrument is mentioned in:

(i) a copy of a certificate under section 51 that is laid

before a House of the Parliament in accordance with

section 38; or

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(ii) a list laid before a House of the Parliament under

section 52; and

(b) the House indicates, by resolution passed before the repeal

day, that the instrument should continue in force.

(2) The legislative instrument continues in force, subject to:

(a) sections 50, 51 and 51A, which apply to it after the passage

of the resolution as if it were registered on the day on which

it would have been repealed by section 50, 51 or 51A apart

from this section; and

(b) any later instrument amending or repealing it.

Note: The legislative instrument is not required to be tabled again, and is not

liable to disallowance again.

54 Instruments to which this Part does not apply

(1) This Part does not apply in relation to a legislative instrument if the

enabling legislation for the instrument (not being the Corporations

Act 2001):

(a) facilitates the establishment or operation of an

intergovernmental body or scheme involving the

Commonwealth and one or more States or Territories; and

(b) authorises the instrument to be made by the body or for the

purposes of the body or scheme.

(2) This Part does not apply in relation to a legislative instrument if:

(a) an Act provides, or has the effect, that this Part does not

apply in relation to the instrument; or

(b) the legislative instrument is prescribed by regulation for the

purposes of this paragraph; or

purposes of:

(i) paragraph 8(6)(b) (which covers instruments that are not

legislative instruments); or

(ii) paragraph 10(1)(c) (which covers instruments that are

legislative instruments); or

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(iii) paragraph 11(2)(b) (which covers instruments that are

notifiable instruments); or

(iv) paragraph 44(2)(b) (which covers instruments that are

not subject to disallowance); or

(v) paragraph (b) of this subsection.

(3) Prescribing a kind of instrument by regulation for the purposes of

paragraph (2)(b) does not imply that every instrument of that kind

is a legislative instrument.

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Chapter 4—Miscellaneous

55 Simplified outline of this Chapter

This Chapter deals with miscellaneous matters, such as the

following:

• publication requirements for legislative instruments other than

publication by registration;

• parliamentary scrutiny requirements for instruments other than

legislative instruments or notifiable instruments, other than

scrutiny under this Act;

• delegation powers of the First Parliamentary Counsel;

• a review of Part 4 of Chapter 3 (sunsetting of legislative

instruments) in 2027;

• the First Parliamentary Counsel’s power to make rules for this

Act (rules are legislative instruments);

• the power to make regulations under this Act, including a

regulation that amends any legislative instrument or notifiable

instrument with the agreement of the rule-maker for the

instrument.

56 Legislative instruments—gazettal and other publication and

notification requirements

Gazettal requirements satisfied by registration

(1) If a primary law requires a legislative instrument made under that

law or other enabling legislation, or particulars of the making of

the instrument, to be published or notified in the Gazette, the

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requirement is taken to be satisfied if the instrument is registered as

a legislative instrument.

Other publication or notification requirements in addition to

registration

(2) Subsection (3) applies if a primary law as enacted or made, or as

amended, on or after 1 January 2005 requires a legislative

instrument made under that law or other enabling legislation, or

particulars of the making of the instrument, to be published or

notified otherwise than in the Gazette.

Note: The substantive provisions of this Act commenced on 1 January 2005.

(3) The requirement for publication or notification is taken to be in

addition to a requirement under this Act for the legislative

instrument to be registered as a legislative instrument.

57 Effect on existing tabling and disallowance requirements

(1) If, before 1 January 2005, a law required a document that is a

legislative instrument for the purposes of this Act to be laid before

the Parliament within a certain time, and in a certain way,

compliance with section 38 on and after 1 January 2005 is taken to

constitute full compliance with those requirements.

(2) If, before 1 January 2005, a law provided for the disallowance of a

document that is a legislative instrument for the purposes of this

Act, sections 42 to 48 are taken to apply in respect of the

document, subject to subsection (5), to the exclusion of the

provision for disallowance in that law.

(3) If provisions in force immediately before 1 January 2005 in

relation to a document that is a legislative instrument specify

particular consequences that follow a particular circumstance,

namely:

(a) the laying of that document, or the failure to lay that

document, before the Houses of the Parliament in accordance

with those provisions; or

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(b) the disallowance or non-disallowance, in accordance with

those provisions, of a document that is so laid:

those same consequences follow a like circumstance under this

Act, namely:

document, before the Houses of the Parliament in accordance

with this Act; and

(d) the disallowance or non-disallowance of that document, in

accordance with this Act, of a document that is laid before

the Houses of the Parliament in accordance with this Act;

as if the circumstance referred to in paragraph (c) or (d) were a

circumstance referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

(4) If provisions in force immediately before 1 January 2005 in

relation to a document that is a legislative instrument:

(a) require the document to be laid before the Houses of the

Parliament; and

(b) specify particular requirements to be complied with before,

or at the same time as, that document is so laid;

those provisions continue to have effect, on and after 1 January

2005, as if they were requirements to be complied with before, or

at the same time as, the document is laid before the Houses of the

Parliament in accordance with this Act.

Note: This subsection applies, for example, if the enabling legislation in

respect of a legislative instrument required that a report concerning

any such instrument be prepared and laid before the Parliament at the

same time as the instrument is so laid.

(5) If particular disallowance provisions of the kind referred to in

subsection (2) are prescribed as provisions to which subsection (2)

does not apply, then those provisions continue to apply, on and

after 1 January 2005, despite the provisions to different effect in

sections 42 to 48.

Note: The substantive provisions of this Act commenced on 1 January 2005.

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57A Legislative instruments made under power delegated by the

Parliament before 1 January 2005

For the purposes of subsection 8(5) (meaning of legislative

instrument), an instrument is a legislative instrument if:

(a) it is made under a power delegated by the Parliament before

1 January 2005; and

(b) in accordance with a provision of the enabling legislation, the

instrument:

(i) is declared to be a disallowable instrument for the

purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act

1901 as in force at any time before 1 January 2005; or

(ii) is otherwise able to be disallowed under Part XII of the

Acts Interpretation Act 1901 as in force at any time

before 1 January 2005.

Note: The substantive provisions of this Act commenced on 1 January 2005.

58 Delegation

The First Parliamentary Counsel may, by signed instrument,

delegate to:

(a) a Second Parliamentary Counsel (appointed under

subsection 4(1) of the Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970); or

(b) an SES employee in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel; or

any of the powers or functions of the First Parliamentary Counsel

under this Act.

59 Review of operation of this Act

(1) During the 3 months starting on the fifth anniversary of the

commencement (the framework reform commencement) of

Schedule 1 to the Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act

2015, the Attorney-General must appoint persons to a body to

review the operation of this Act.

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(2) A person appointed to the body may resign from it by giving the

Attorney-General a signed notice of resignation.

(3) The body must review all aspects of the operation of this Act and

any related matters that the Attorney-General specifies.

(4) The body must give the Attorney-General a written report on the

review within 15 months after the fifth anniversary of the

framework reform commencement.

(5) The Attorney-General must cause the report to be laid before each

House of the Parliament within 6 sitting days of the House after the

Attorney-General receives the report.

60 Review of operation of the sunsetting provisions

(1) Between 1 January and 31 March 2027, the Attorney-General must

appoint persons to a body to review the operation of Part 4 of

Chapter 3 (sunsetting of legislative instruments).

(2) A person appointed to the body may resign from it by giving the

Attorney-General a signed notice of resignation.

(3) The body referred to in subsection (1) must review all aspects of

the operation of Part 4 of Chapter 3 and any related matters that the

Attorney-General specifies.

(4) The body must give the Attorney-General a written report on the

review before 1 October 2027.

(5) The Attorney-General must cause the report to be laid before each

House of the Parliament within 6 sitting days of the House after the

Attorney-General receives the report.

61 Legislative instrument and notifiable instrument amendments by

regulations under this Act

(1) A regulation under this Act may amend a legislative instrument or

notifiable instrument.

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(2) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) may include

amendments providing for any matters of a transitional nature

(including saving or application provisions) that are necessary or

convenient to be prescribed for amendments of the instrument

concerned.

(3) Before the Governor-General makes a regulation for the purposes

of subsection (1) amending an instrument, the Attorney-General

must be satisfied that the rule-maker for the instrument has agreed

to the amendment.

61A Rules made by First Parliamentary Counsel

The First Parliamentary Counsel may, by legislative instrument,

make rules prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act

to be prescribed by the rules.

62 Regulations

The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all

matters:

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by

regulation; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or

giving effect to this Act.

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Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

The endnotes provide information about this compilation and the compiled law.

The following endnotes are included in every compilation:

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

Abbreviation key—Endnote 2

The abbreviation key sets out abbreviations that may be used in the endnotes.

Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4

Amending laws are annotated in the legislation history and amendment history.

The legislation history in endnote 3 provides information about each law that

has amended (or will amend) the compiled law. The information includes

commencement details for amending laws and details of any application, saving

or transitional provisions that are not included in this compilation.

The amendment history in endnote 4 provides information about amendments at

the provision (generally section or equivalent) level. It also includes information

about any provision of the compiled law that has been repealed in accordance

with a provision of the law.

Editorial changes

The Legislation Act 2003 authorises First Parliamentary Counsel to make

editorial and presentational changes to a compiled law in preparing a

compilation of the law for registration. The changes must not change the effect

of the law. Editorial changes take effect from the compilation registration date.

If the compilation includes editorial changes, the endnotes include a brief

outline of the changes in general terms. Full details of any changes can be

obtained from the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.

Misdescribed amendments

A misdescribed amendment is an amendment that does not accurately describe

the amendment to be made. If, despite the misdescription, the amendment can

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be given effect as intended, the amendment is incorporated into the compiled

law and the abbreviation “(md)” added to the details of the amendment included

in the amendment history.

If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the

abbreviation “(md not incorp)” is added to the details of the amendment

included in the amendment history.

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Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

ad = added or inserted o = order(s)

am = amended Ord = Ordinance

amdt = amendment orig = original

c = clause(s) par = paragraph(s)/subparagraph(s)

/sub-subparagraph(s)C[x] = Compilation No. x

Ch = Chapter(s) pres = present

def = definition(s) prev = previous

Dict = Dictionary (prev…) = previously

disallowed = disallowed by Parliament Pt = Part(s)

Div = Division(s) r = regulation(s)/rule(s)

ed = editorial change reloc = relocated

exp = expires/expired or ceases/ceased to have renum = renumbered

effect rep = repealed

F = Federal Register of Legislation rs = repealed and substituted

gaz = gazette s = section(s)/subsection(s)

LA = Legislation Act 2003 Sch = Schedule(s)

LIA = Legislative Instruments Act 2003 Sdiv = Subdivision(s)

(md) = misdescribed amendment can be given SLI = Select Legislative Instrument

effect SR = Statutory Rules

(md not incorp) = misdescribed amendment Sub-Ch = Sub-Chapter(s)

cannot be given effect SubPt = Subpart(s)

mod = modified/modification underlining = whole or part not

commenced or to be commencedNo. = Number(s)

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Endnote 3—Legislation history

Act Number Assent Commencement Application,

and year saving and

transitional

provisions

Legislative Instruments 139, 2003 17 Dec s 3–42, 44–62 and Sch 1:

Act 2003 2003 1 Jan 2005 (s 2(1)

items 2, 3)

Remainder: 17 Dec 2003

(s 2(1) item 1)

Law and Justice

Legislation Amendment

Act 2004

62, 2004 26 May

2004

Sch 1 (items 46–50): 1

Jan 2005 (s 2(1) item 12)

—

Australian Federal

Police and Other

Legislation Amendment

Act 2004

64, 2004 22 June

2004

Sch 2 (item 8): 1 Jan

2005 (s 2(1) item 10)

—

Protection of the Sea

(Powers of Intervention)

Amendment Act 2006

44, 2006 22 May

2006

Sch 1 (item 1): 23 May

2006 (s 2)

—

Customs Legislation

Amendment (New

Zealand Rules of Origin)

Act 2006

166, 2006 12 Dec

2006

Sch 1 (items 18–21): 1

Jan 2007 (s 2)

—

Australian Citizenship

(Transitionals and

Consequentials) Act

2007

21, 2007 15 Mar

2007

Sch 1 (item 38): 1 July

2007 (s 2(1) item 2)

—

Native Title Amendment 61, 2007 15 Apr Sch 1 (item 47A): 15 —

Act 2007 2007 Apr 2007 (s 2(1) item 2)

Maritime Legislation 150, 2007 24 Sept Sch 1 (items 21, 22): 1 —

Amendment Act 2007 2007 Jan 2008 (s 2(1) item 2)

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Act Number Assent Commencement Application,

and year saving and

transitional

provisions

Financial Framework 166, 2007 25 Sept Sch 1 (items 19, 21): 1 —

Legislation Amendment 2007 Jan 2008 (s 2(1) items 8,

Act (No. 1) 2007 10)

Sch 1 (items 20, 22): 25

Sept 2007 (s 2(1)

items 9, 11)

Commonwealth 20, 2008 26 May Sch 2 (items 4–7): 1 July Sch 2 (item 7)

Authorities and 2008 2008 (s 2(1) item 7)

Companies Amendment

Act 2008

Great Barrier Reef 125, 2008 25 Nov Sch 3 (item 48): 26 Nov —

Marine Park and Other 2008 2008 (s 2(1) item 2)

Legislation Amendment

Act 2008

Evidence Amendment 135, 2008 4 Dec 2008 Sch 3 (item 8): 4 Dec —

Act 2008 2009 (s 2(1) item 3)

Water Amendment Act 139, 2008 8 Dec 2008 Sch 2 (item 2): 15 Dec —

2008 2008 (s 2(1) item 3)

Fair Work (State

Referral and

Consequential and Other

Amendments) Act 2009

54, 2009 25 June

2009

Sch 5 (item 42): 1 July

2009 (s 2(1) item 13)

—

Fair Work Amendment

(State Referrals and

Other Measures) Act

2009

124, 2009 9 Dec 2009 Sch 2 (item 133): 1 Jan

2010 (s 2(1) item 12)

—

Acts Interpretation 46, 2011 27 June Sch 1 (items 111–116) Sch 3 (items 1, 9,

Amendment Act 2011 2011 and Sch 3 (items 1, 9, 11)

11): 27 Dec 2011 (s 2(1)

items 2, 12)

Financial Framework 89, 2011 4 Aug 2011 Sch 3: 1 Sept 2011 (s —

Legislation Amendment 2(1) item 4)

Act (No. 1) 2011

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Act Number Assent Commencement Application,

and year saving and

transitional

provisions

Legislative Instruments

Amendment (Sunsetting)

Act 2011

98, 2011 15 Sept

2011

16 Sept 2011 (s 2) Sch 1 (item 4)

Human Rights 187, 2011 7 Dec 2011 Sch 1 (item 4): 4 Jan —

(Parliamentary Scrutiny) 2012 (s 2(1) item 3)

(Consequential

Provisions) Act 2011

Parliamentary Counsel 107, 2012 22 July Sch 2 (items 12–46, 48): Sch 2 (items 46,

and Other Legislation 2012 1 Oct 2012 (s 2(1) 48)

Amendment Act 2012 item 2)

Navigation

(Consequential

Amendments) Act 2012

129, 2012 13 Sept

2012

Sch 2 (item 16): 1 July

2013 (s 2(1) item 2)

—

Legislative Instruments

Amendment (Sunsetting

Measures) Act 2012

135, 2012 22 Sept

2012

Sch 1: 23 Sept 2012 (s 2) —

Fair Work Amendment 174, 2012 4 Dec 2012 Sch 9 (item 1281): 1 Jan —

Act 2012 2013 (s 2(1) item 5)

Federal Circuit Court of 13, 2013 14 Mar Sch 2 (item 2): 12 Apr —

Australia (Consequential 2013 2013 (s 2(1) item 3)

Amendments) Act 2013

Public Governance,

Performance and

Accountability

(Consequential and

Transitional Provisions)

Act 2014

62, 2014 30 June

2014

Sch 9 (items 214, 215)

and Sch 14: 1 July 2014

(s 2(1) items 6, 14)

Sch 14

as amended by

Public Governance

and Resources

Legislation

Amendment Act

(No. 1) 2015

36, 2015 13 Apr

2015

Sch 2 (items 7–9) and

Sch 7: 14 Apr 2015 (s 2)

Sch 7

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Act Number Assent Commencement Application,

and year saving and

transitional

provisions

as amended by

Acts and 126, 2015 10 Sept Sch 1 (item 486): 5 Mar —

Instruments 2015 2016 (s 2(1) item 2)

(Framework

Reform)

(Consequential

Provisions) Act

2015

Acts and Instruments 126, 2015 10 Sept Sch 1 (item 495): 5 Mar —

(Framework Reform) 2015 2016 (s 2(1) item 2)

(Consequential

Provisions) Act 2015

Acts and Instruments

(Framework Reform)

Act 2015

10, 2015 5 Mar 2015 Sch 1 (items 1–89, 166–

179): 5 Mar 2016 (s 2(1)

item 2)

Sch 1 (items 166–

179)

as amended by

Acts and Instruments

(Framework Reform)

(Consequential

Provisions) Act 2015

126, 2015 10 Sept

2015

Sch 3 (items 1, 6): 5 Mar

2016 (s 2(1) item 8)

Sch 3 (item 6)

Norfolk Island

Legislation Amendment

Act 2015

59, 2015 26 May

2015

s 4: 26 May 2015 (s 2(1)

item 1)

Sch 1 (item 144):

18 June 2015 (s 2(1)

item 2)

Sch 1 (items 184–203):

27 May 2015 (s 2(1)

item 3)

Sch 1 (items 204–206): 5

Mar 2016 (s 2(1) item 4)

s 4 and Sch 1

(items 184–203,

206)

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Act Number Assent Commencement Application,

and year saving and

transitional

provisions

Acts and Instruments 126, 2015 10 Sept Sch 2 (items 3, 4): never Sch 2 (item 7) and

(Framework Reform) 2015 commenced (s 2(1) Sch 3 (item 6)

(Consequential item 5)

Provisions) Act 2015 Sch 2 (items 5–7): 10

Mar 2016 (s 2(1)

items 6, 7)

Sch 3 (items 3–6): 5 Mar

2016 (s 2(1) item 8)

Treasury Laws

Amendment (Fair and

Sustainable

Superannuation) Act

2016

81, 2016 29 Nov

2016

Sch 10 (item 112): 1 Jan

2017 (s 2(1) item 8)

—

Treasury Laws

Amendment (2017

Measures No. 2) Act

2017

55, 2017 22 June

2017

Sch 1 (item 20): 22 June

2017 (s 2(1) item 3)

Sch 1 (item 21): awaiting

commencement (s 2(1)

item 4)

—

Statute Update (Winter 93, 2017 23 Aug Sch 1 (item 14): 20 Sept —

2017) Act 2017 2017 2017 (s 2(1) item 2)

Legislation Amendment 78, 2018 24 Aug Sch 1 (items 22–74) and Sch 1 (item 74)

(Sunsetting Review and 2018 Sch 2 (items 5–10): 25 and Sch 2

Other Measures) Act Aug 2018 (s 2(1) (items 10, 13)

2018 items 2, 3)

Sch 2 (items 11–13): 24

Feb 2019 (s 2(1) item 4)

Civil Law and Justice 130, 2018 25 Oct Sch 8: 26 Oct 2018 (s —

Legislation Amendment 2018 2(1) item 11)

Act 2018

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Endnote 3—Legislation history

Name Registration Commencement Application, saving

and transitional

provisions

Workplace Relations 17 Mar 2006 Sch 39: 27 Mar 2006 —

Amendment (Work (F2006L00820) (r 2(b))

Choices) (Consequential

Amendments)

Regulations 2006

(No. 1) (SLI No. 50,

2006)

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Endnote 4—Amendment history

Provision affected How affected

Title ...............................................am No 135, 2012

rs No 10, 2015

ed C32

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 heading ..........................ad No 10, 2015

Part 1

Part 1 heading ................................rs No 10, 2015

s 1 ..................................................am No 10, 2015

s 2A................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 3 ..................................................am No 135, 2012; No 10, 2015

s 3A................................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 78, 2018

s 3AA.............................................ad No 59, 2015

s 4 ..................................................am No 98, 2011; No 187, 2011; No 107, 2012; No 135, 2012

rs No 10, 2015

s 5 ..................................................rs No 10, 2015

ed C39

s 6 ..................................................rs No 10, 2015

Part 2

Part 2 heading ................................ad No 10, 2015

s 7 ..................................................am No 62, 2004; No 64, 2004; SLI No 50, 2006; No 20, 2008; No 139,

2008; No 54, 2009; No 124, 2009; No 174, 2012; No 62, 2014

rs No 10, 2015

s 8 ..................................................rs No 10, 2015

am No 126, 2015

s 9 ..................................................am No 13, 2013

rs No 10, 2015

s 10 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

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Provision affected How affected

am No 59, 2015

s 11 ................................................am No 13, 2013

rs No 10, 2015

s 12 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

am No 78, 2018

s 13 ................................................am No 46, 2011; No 10, 2015; No 93, 2017

s 14 ................................................am No 10, 2015; No 126, 2015; No 78, 2018

Chapter 2

Chapter 2 .......................................ad No 10, 2015

Part 1

Division 1

s 15 ................................................rep No 135, 2012

ad No 10, 2015

Division 2

s 15A..............................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 126, 2015

s 15B..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15C..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15D..............................................ad No 10, 2015

rs No 78, 2018

s 15DA...........................................ad No 78, 2018

s 15E..............................................ad No 10, 2015

Division 3

s 15F ..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15G..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15H..............................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 126, 2015

s 15J...............................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 81, 2016; No 55, 2017 (Sch 1 item 21)

s 15K..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15L..............................................ad No 10, 2015

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am No 78, 2018

s 15M.............................................ad No 10, 2015

Part 2

Division 1

s 15N..............................................ad No 10, 2015

Division 2

s 15P ..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15Q..............................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 130, 2018

s 15R..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15S ..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15T..............................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 130, 2018

s 15U..............................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 130, 2018

Division 3

s 15V..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15W.............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15X..............................................ad No 10, 2015

ed C32

Part 3

Division 1

s 15Y..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15Z..............................................ad No 10, 2015

Division 2

s 15ZA ...........................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 130, 2018

s 15ZB ...........................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 130, 2018

Chapter 3

Part 2 heading ................................rep No 10, 2015

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Provision affected How affected

Chapter 3 heading ..........................ad No 10, 2015

Part 1

Part 1 heading ................................ad No 10, 2015

s 15ZC ...........................................ad No 10, 2015

s 16 ................................................am No 107, 2012; No 10, 2015

Part 3 heading ................................rep No 10, 2015

s 17 ................................................am No 135, 2012; No 10, 2015

s 18 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

Part 4..............................................rep No 10, 2015

s 20 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 21 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 22 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 23 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 24 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 25 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 26 ................................................am No 135, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 27 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 28 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 29 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 30 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 31 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 32 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 33 ................................................am No 107, 2012; No 135, 2012

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Provision affected How affected

rep No 10, 2015

s 34 ................................................am No 107, 2012; No 135, 2012

rep No 10, 2015

s 35 ................................................rep No 10, 2015

s 35A..............................................ad No 135, 2008

rep No 10, 2015

Part 2

Part 5 heading ................................rep No 10, 2015

Part 2 heading ................................ad No 10, 2015

s 36 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

s 37 ................................................am No 10, 2015

s 38 ................................................am No 107, 2012; No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 39 ................................................am No 107, 2012

rs No 10, 2015

s 42 ................................................am No 62, 2004; No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 44 ................................................am No 62, 2004; No 166, 2006; No 21, 2007; No 150, 2007; No 166,

2007; No 20, 2008; No 89, 2011; No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 45 ................................................am No 135, 2012; No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 47 ................................................am No 78, 2018

s 48 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

Part 3

Part 5A heading .............................rep No 10, 2015

Part 3 heading ................................ad No 10, 2015

Part 5A...........................................ad No 135, 2012

Division 1A

Division 1A heading ......................ad No 10, 2015

s 48AA...........................................ad No 10, 2015

am No 78, 2018

Division 1

Subdivision A

s 48A..............................................ad No 135, 2012

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am No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

Subdivision B

s 48B..............................................ad No 135, 2012

am No 10, 2015

Subdivision C

Subdivision C heading ...................rs No 10, 2015

s 48C..............................................ad No 135, 2012

am No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

Subdivision D

Subdivision D heading...................rs No 10, 2015

s 48D..............................................ad No 135, 2012

am No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

Division 2

s 48E..............................................ad No 135, 2012

am No 10, 2015

Part 4

Part 6 heading ................................rep No 10, 2015

Part 4 heading ................................ad No 10, 2015

s 48F ..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 50 ................................................am No 98, 2011

rs No 135, 2012

am No 10, 2015

s 51 ................................................am No 135, 2012; No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 51A..............................................ad No 135, 2012

am No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 52 ................................................am No 107, 2012; No 135, 2012

s 53 ................................................rs No 135, 2012

am No 78, 2018

s 54 ................................................am No 62, 2004; No 44, 2006; No 166, 2006; No 61, 2007; No 150,

2007; No 166, 2007; No 20, 2008; No 125, 2008; No 89, 2011; No 129,

2012; No 135, 2012; No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

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Provision affected How affected

Chapter 4

Part 7 heading ................................rep No 10, 2015

Chapter 4 heading ..........................ad No 10, 2015

s 55 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

am No 78, 2018

s 56 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

s 57 ................................................am No 10, 2015

s 57A..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 58 ................................................rs No 107, 2012

am No 10, 2015

s 59 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

s 60 ................................................am No 10, 2015; No 78, 2018

s 61 ................................................rs No 10, 2015

s 61A..............................................ad No 10, 2015

s 62 ................................................am No 10, 2015

Schedule 1......................................rep No 10, 2015

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Endnote 5—Editorial changes

Endnote 5—Editorial changes

In preparing this compilation for registration, the following kinds of editorial

change(s) were made under the Legislation Act 2003.

Section 5 (heading)

Kind of editorial change

Change to typeface

Details of editorial change

This compilation was editorially changed to insert bold on the word “and” in the

heading to section 5 to bring the section heading into line with legislative

drafting practice.

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