Legislation Act 2003

Chapter 2 - Registration of Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments  

Part 1 - The Federal Register of Legislation  

Division 2 - Federal Register of Legislation  

SECTION 15A   Federal Register of Legislation - establishment and maintenance  

(1)    
The First Parliamentary Counsel must establish and maintain a register of Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments, 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(b) the contents of the Acts database under the Acts Publication Act 1905 (which was repealed when this section commenced);

(c) other legislative material published on the whole-of-government legislation website known as ComLaw.

(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;

(c) compilations, registered under this Part, of Acts, legislative 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);

(c) Gazette notices;

(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.