Legislation Act 2003

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

Part 3 - Authorised versions and judicial notice  

Division 2 - Authorised versions and judicial notice  

SECTION 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 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

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

(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;

(c) a unique identifier, for a registered law or explanatory statement, prescribed by the rules.