LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS ACT 2003 NO. 139, 2003
Table of Provisions
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
- 1 Short title
- 2 Commencement
- 2A Schedule(s)
- 3 Object
- 4 Definitions
- 5 Definitiona legislative instrument
- 6 Instruments declared to be legislative instruments
- 7 Instruments declared not to be legislative instruments
- 8 Definitionpower delegated by the Parliament
- 9 Rules of court are not legislative instruments
- 10 Attorney-General may certify whether an instrument is legislative instrument or not
- 11 Reconsideration and review of Attorney-General's certificate
- 12 When do provisions of legislative instruments take effect?
- 13 Construction of legislative instruments
- 14 Prescribing matters by reference to other instruments
- 15 Effect of repeal of legislative instrument
PART 2--DRAFTING STANDARDS
- 16 Measures to achieve high drafting standards for legislative instruments
PART 3--CONSULTATION BEFORE MAKING LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS
- 17 Rule-makers should consult before making legislative instruments
- 18 Circumstances where consultation may be unnecessary or inappropriate
- 19 Consequence of failure to consult
PART 4--THE FEDERAL REGISTER OF LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS
Division 2--Registration of legislative instruments made, or treated as made, on or after commencing day
Division 3--Registration of certain legislative instruments made before commencing day
- 28 Legislative instruments required to be registered under this Division
- 29 Lodgment for registration under this Division
- 30 Registration under this Division
Division 4--Effect of registration
Division 5--Compilations
Division 6--Early backcapturing
- 36 Inclusion in database established in anticipation of the enactment of this Act
PART 5--PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY OF LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS
- 37 The purpose of the Part
- 38 Tabling of legislative instruments
- 39 Additional material to be tabled with the legislative instrument
- 40 Regulations may specify manner of delivery of certain documents
- 41 Incorporated material may be required to be made available
- 42 Disallowance of legislative instruments
- 44 Legislative instruments that are not subject to disallowance
- 45 Effect of a legislative instrument ceasing to have effect
- 46 Legislative instruments not to be remade while required to be tabled
- 47 Legislative instruments not to be remade while subject to disallowance
- 48 Disallowed legislative instruments not to be remade unless disallowance resolution rescinded or House approves
PART 6--SUNSETTING OF LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS
- 49 The purpose of the Part
- 50 The sunsetting of legislative instruments to which this Part applies
- 51 Attorney-General may defer sunsetting in certain circumstances
- 52 Attorney-General must lay lists of instruments due for sunsetting before each House of the Parliament
- 53 Resolution that instruments continue in force
- 54 Instruments to which this Part does not apply
PART 7--MISCELLANEOUS
- 55 Instruments made but not finally dealt with before the commencing day
- 56 Relationship of certain gazettal requirements to registration requirements
- 57 Effect on existing tabling and disallowance requirements
- 58 Delegation
- 59 Review of operation of this Act
- 60 Review of operation of the sunsetting provisions
- 61 Existing references to Legislative Instruments Act
- 62 Regulations