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Legislation Act 2003
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Part 1 - Preliminary
- SECTION 1 Short title
- SECTION 2 Commencement
- SECTION 2A Schedule(s)
- SECTION 3 Object
- SECTION 3A Simplified outline of this Act
- SECTION 3AA Norfolk Island
- SECTION 4 The Dictionary
- SECTION 5 Definitions of amend and modify
- SECTION 6 Definitions of rule-maker and responsible person
- Part 2 - Key concepts for legislative instruments and notifiable instruments
- SECTION 7 Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 8 Definition of legislative instrument
- SECTION 9 Inference of legislative character
- SECTION 10 Instruments declared to be legislative instruments
- SECTION 11 Definition of notifiable instrument
- SECTION 12 Commencement of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments
- SECTION 13 Construction of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments
- SECTION 14 Prescribing matters by reference to other instruments
- Chapter 2 - Registration of Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments
- Part 1 - The Federal Register of Legislation
- Division 1 - Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 15 Simplified outline of this Part
- Division 2 - Federal Register of Legislation
- SECTION 15A Federal Register of Legislation - establishment and maintenance
- SECTION 15B Federal Register of Legislation - complete record of registered laws
- SECTION 15C Federal Register of Legislation - access to registered material on approved website
- SECTION 15D Federal Register of Legislation - rectification of Register
- SECTION 15DA Requirement for re-tabling and new disallowance period after rectification of Register
- SECTION 15E Federal Register of Legislation - keeping the Register
- Division 3 - Registration on Federal Register of Legislation
- SECTION 15F Registration of Acts
- SECTION 15G Lodgement of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments, and other material
- SECTION 15H Registration of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments, and other documents
- SECTION 15J Explanatory statements
- SECTION 15K Registration - enforceability of legislative instruments
- SECTION 15L Events affecting the currency or accuracy of the Register
- SECTION 15M Rules for lodgement and registration
- Part 2 - Compilations
- Division 1 - Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 15N Simplified outline of this Part
- Division 2 - Registration of compilations
- SECTION 15P Registered compilations - information requirements
- SECTION 15Q Definitions of required compilation event and discretionary compilation event etc.
- SECTION 15R Lodgement of compilations of instruments - required compilation events
- SECTION 15S Lodgement of compilations of instruments - discretionary compilation events
- SECTION 15T Registration of compilations
- SECTION 15U Compilations - rules
- Division 3 - Editorial changes and other changes
- SECTION 15V Power to make editorial changes and other changes
- SECTION 15W Editorial changes treated in the same way as amendments
- SECTION 15X Definition of editorial change
- Part 3 - Authorised versions and judicial notice
- Division 1 - Introduction
- SECTION 15Y Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 15Z Scope of this Part
- Division 2 - Authorised versions and judicial notice
- SECTION 15ZA Authorised versions
- SECTION 15ZB Judicial notice
- Chapter 3 - Legislative instruments and notifiable instruments
- Part 1 - Drafting standards and consultation
- SECTION 15ZC Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 16 Measures to achieve high drafting standards for legislative instruments and notifiable instruments
- SECTION 17 Rule-makers should consult before making legislative instruments
- SECTION 18 Circumstances where consultation may be unnecessary or inappropriate
- SECTION 19 Consequence of failure to consult
- Part 3 - Consultation before making legislative instruments Pt 3 heading re
- Part 4 - The Federal Register of Legislative Instruments
- Division 1 - The Register
- SECTION 20 Federal Register of Legislative Instruments
- SECTION 21 Manner of keeping Register
- SECTION 22 The status of the Register and judicial notice of legislative instruments and compilations
- SECTION 23 Rectification of Register
- Division 2 - Registration of legislative instruments made, or treated as made, on or after commencing day
- SECTION 24 Legislative instruments required to be registered under this Division
- SECTION 25 Lodgment for registration under this Division
- SECTION 26 Explanatory statements
- SECTION 27 Registration under this Division
- Division 3 - Registration of certain legislative instruments made before commencing day
- SECTION 28 Legislative instruments required to be registered under this Division
- SECTION 29 Lodgment for registration under this Division
- SECTION 30 Registration under this Division
- Division 4 - Effect of registration
- SECTION 31 Effect of failure to register a legislative instrument required to be registered under Division 2
- SECTION 32 Effect of failure to lodge for registration a legislative instrument required to be registered under Division 3
- Division 5 - Compilations
- SECTION 33 Compilations to be registered
- SECTION 34 First Parliamentary Counsel may require provision of compilations for registration purposes
- SECTION 35 Information to be included with a compilation
- SECTION 35A Incorporation of amendments in reprints of legislative instruments
- Division 6 - Early backcapturing
- Part 2 - Parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments
- SECTION 36 Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 37 The purpose of the Part
- SECTION 38 Tabling of legislative instruments
- SECTION 39 Tabling of explanatory statements
- SECTION 40 Regulations may specify manner of delivery of certain documents
- SECTION 41 Incorporated material may be required to be made available
- SECTION 42 Disallowance of legislative instruments
- SECTION 44 Legislative instruments that are not subject to disallowance
- SECTION 45 Reviving a legislative instrument, law or provision
- SECTION 46 Legislative instruments not to be remade while required to be tabled
- SECTION 47 Legislative instruments not to be remade while subject to disallowance
- SECTION 48 Remaking disallowed legislative instruments
- Part 3 - Repeal of spent legislative instruments, notifiable instruments and provisions
- Division 1A - Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 48AA Simplified outline of this Part
- Division 1 - Automatic repeal
- Subdivision A - Repeal of amending and repealing instruments
- SECTION 48A Automatic repeal of amending and repealing instruments
- Subdivision B - Repeal of commencement instruments
- SECTION 48B Automatic repeal of commencement instruments
- Subdivision C - Repeal of amending or repealing provisions of instruments containing other matter
- SECTION 48C Automatic repeal of amending and repealing provisions
- Subdivision D - Repeal of commencement provisions of instruments containing other matter
- SECTION 48D Automatic repeal of commencement provisions
- Division 2 - Repeal by regulations
- SECTION 48E Regulations may repeal instruments or provisions no longer required
- Part 4 - Sunsetting of legislative instruments
- SECTION 48F Simplified outline of this Part
- SECTION 49 The purpose of the Part
- SECTION 50 Sunsetting
- SECTION 51 Attorney-General may defer sunsetting in certain circumstances
- SECTION 51A Attorney General may align sunsetting of instruments to be reviewed together
- SECTION 52 Attorney-General must lay lists of instruments due for sunsetting before each House of the Parliament
- SECTION 53 Resolution that instrument continue in force
- SECTION 54 Instruments to which this Part does not apply
- Chapter 4 - Miscellaneous
- SECTION 55 Simplified outline of this Chapter
- SECTION 56 Legislative instruments - gazettal and other publication and notification requirements
- SECTION 57 Effect on existing tabling and disallowance requirements
- SECTION 57A Legislative instruments made under power delegated by the Parliament before 1 January 2005
- SECTION 58 Delegation
- SECTION 59 Review of operation of this Act
- SECTION 60 Review of operation of the sunsetting provisions
- SECTION 61 Legislative instrument and notifiable instrument amendments by regulations under this Act
- SECTION 61A Rules made by First Parliamentary Counsel
- SECTION 62 Regulations
- Schedule 1 - Amendment of other legislation
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