Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 40

             (1)  In any Act, instrument or document:

                     (a)  any Act may be cited by its short title, or by reference to the secular year in which it was passed and its number; and

                     (b)  any Imperial Act may be cited by its short title (if any) or in such other manner as is sufficient in an Imperial Act; and

                     (c)  any State Act may be cited by a reference to the State by the Parliament whereof the Act was passed, together with such mode of reference as is sufficient in Acts passed by such Parliament.

             (2)  Any enactment may be cited by reference to the part, section, subsection, or other division of the Act, Imperial Act or State Act, in which the enactment is contained.

             (3)  Every such reference shall be made according to the copy of such Act printed by the Government Printer of the Commonwealth or of the State, or of the King's Printer in London (as the case may be), or purporting to be so printed.