Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATUTORY RULES PUBLICATION AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 39, 1978 - SECT 4

4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by inserting in sub-section (3) ''or places'' after ''place''; and

   (b)  by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-sections:

''(3A) Where a notice of statutory rules having been made is published in
accordance with sub-section (3), copies of the statutory rules shall, at the
time of publication of the notice or as soon as practicable thereafter, be
made available for purchase at the place, or at each of the places, specified
in the notice.

''(3B) Where, on the date of publication of a notice referred to in
sub-section (3A), there are no copies of the statutory rules to which the
notice relates available for purchase at the place, or at one or more of the
places, specified in the notice, the Minister of State for Administrative
Services shall cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15
sitting days of that House after that date, a statement that copies of the
statutory rules were not so available and the reason why they were not so
available.

''(3C) Failure to comply with a requirement of sub-section (3A) or (3B) in
relation to any statutory rules shall not be taken to constitute a failure to
comply with sub-section (3) or with any provision of any Act with respect to
the publication or notification of the statutory rules in the Gazette.''.
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