Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS ACT 2003 - SECT 3

             (1)  The object of this Act is to provide a comprehensive regime for the management of Commonwealth legislative instruments by:

                     (a)  establishing the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments as a repository of Commonwealth legislative instruments, explanatory statements and compilations; and

                     (b)  encouraging rule-makers to undertake appropriate consultation before making legislative instruments; and

                     (c)  encouraging high standards in the drafting of legislative instruments to promote their legal effectiveness, their clarity and their intelligibility to anticipated users; and

                     (d)  improving public access to legislative instruments; and

                     (e)  establishing improved mechanisms for Parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments; and

                      (f)  establishing mechanisms to ensure that legislative instruments are periodically reviewed and, if they no longer have a continuing purpose, repealed.