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LEGISLATION ACT 2003 - SECT 16 Measures to achieve high drafting standards for legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

LEGISLATION ACT 2003 - SECT 16

Measures to achieve high drafting standards for legislative instruments and notifiable instruments

  (1)   To encourage high standards in the drafting of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments , the First Parliamentary Counsel must cause steps to be taken to promote the legal effectiveness, clarity, and intelligibility to anticipated users, of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments .

  (2)   The steps referred to in subsection   ( 1) may include, but are not limited to:

  (a)   undertaking or supervising the drafting of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments ; and

  (b)   scrutinising preliminary drafts of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments ; and

  (c)   providing advice concerning the drafting of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments ; and

  (d)   providing training in drafting and matters related to drafting to officers and employees of Departments or other agencies ; and

  (e)   arranging the temporary secondment to Departments or other agencies of APS employees performing duties in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel ; and

  (f)   providing drafting precedents to officers and employees of Departments or other agencies .

  (3)   The First Parliamentary Counsel must also cause steps to be taken:

  (a)   to prevent the use of gender - specific language in legislative instruments and notifiable instruments in circumstances where it is not necessary to identify persons by their sex; and

  (b)   to advise rule - makers for registered legislative instruments or notifiable instruments if those instruments use gender - specific language in those circumstances; and

  (c)   to notify both Houses of the Parliament about any occasion when a rule - maker is advised under paragraph   ( b).