Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act 2015 (10 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

Part 5   Amendments of other Acts

Acts Interpretation Act 1901

115   After subsection 46AA(2) (before the note)

Insert:

(3) The following legislative instruments are covered by this subsection:

(a) disallowable legislative instruments within the meaning of the Legislation Act 2003;

(b) legislative instruments that were disallowable under this or any other Act at any time before 1 January 2005.

Note 1: Section 4 of the Legislation Act 2003 defines a disallowable legislative instrument as a legislative instrument to which section 42 of that Act applies.

Note 2: The substantive provisions of the Legislation Act 2003 commenced on 1 January 2005.

Exception - forms

(4) Despite subsections (1) to (3), an instrument (the enabling instrument ) to which subsection (1) applies may authorise or require a form (however described) to be used for the purposes of an Act, that instrument or another instrument if the enabling instrument provides that:

(a) the form is a notifiable instrument; or

(b) the form is required to be publicly available in another specified way.