Legislation Act 2003

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

Part 2 - Compilations  

Division 3 - Editorial changes and other changes  

SECTION 15W  

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.