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

105   Before subsection 40(1)

Insert:

Citation of Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

(1A) In any Act, instrument or document:

(a) an Act may be cited by:

(i) the short title of the Act; or

(ii) the secular year in which it was passed, and its number; or

(iii) a unique identifier given to the Act in accordance with rules prescribed under the Legislation Act 2003; and

(b) a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument may be cited by:

(i) any name the instrument gives itself; or

(ii) a unique identifier given to the instrument in accordance with rules prescribed under the Legislation Act 2003; or

(iii) if the instrument was numbered under a Commonwealth law - the year it was made and its number, together with a reference (if necessary) to the kind of instrument; or

(iv) if the instrument was notified or published in the Gazette - the date and (if necessary) number and page of the Gazette in which it was notified or published; or

(v) the date it was made, together with a reference to the Act or instrument, and (if necessary) provision, under which it was made.

Citation of Imperial Acts, State Acts and Territory Acts