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New South Wales
Legislation Review Amendment
Bill 2002
Contents
Page
1 Name of Act 2
2 Commencement 2
3 Amendment of Regulation Review Act 1987 No 165 2
4 Consequential amendments of other Acts 2
Schedules
1 Amendments 3
2 Consequential amendments of other Acts 6
I certify that this PUBLIC BILL, which originated in the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, has
finally passed the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL and the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY of NEW
SOUTH WALES.
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
Legislative Assembly,
Sydney, , 2002
New South Wales
Legislation Review Amendment
Bill 2002
Act No , 2002
An Act to amend the Regulation Review Act 1987 to rename the Regulation
Review Committee as the Legislation Review Committee and to extend the role of
the Committee to the scrutiny of Bills; and to make consequential amendments to
other Acts.
I have examined this Bill, and find it to correspond in all respects with the Bill as
finally passed by both Houses.
Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Clause 1 Legislation Review Amendment Bill 2002
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Legislation Review Amendment Act 2002.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by
proclamation.
3 Amendment of Regulation Review Act 1987 No 165
The Regulation Review Act 1987 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.
4 Consequential amendments of other Acts
The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are amended as set out in that
Schedule.
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Amendments Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments
(Section 3)
[1] Long title
Omit "Regulation Review Committee".
Insert instead "Legislation Review Committee".
[2] Section 1 Short title
Omit "Regulation Review Act". Insert instead "Legislation Review Act".
[3] Section 3 Definitions
Insert in alphabetical order in section 3 (1):
Bill means a Bill for an Act of New South Wales.
[4] Section 3 (1), definition of "Committee"
Omit "Regulation Review Committee".
Insert instead "Legislation Review Committee".
[5] Section 4 Constitution of Legislation Review Committee
Omit "the commencement of this Act and".
[6] Section 4
Omit "Regulation Review Committee".
Insert instead "Legislation Review Committee".
[7] Section 8A
Insert before section 9:
8A Functions with respect to Bills
(1) The functions of the Committee with respect to Bills are:
(a) to consider any Bill introduced into Parliament, and
(b) to report to both Houses of Parliament as to whether any
such Bill, by express words or otherwise:
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Schedule 1 Amendments
(i) trespasses unduly on personal rights and
liberties, or
(ii) makes rights, liberties or obligations unduly
dependent upon insufficiently defined
administrative powers, or
(iii) makes rights, liberties or obligations unduly
dependent upon non-reviewable decisions, or
(iv) inappropriately delegates legislative powers, or
(v) insufficiently subjects the exercise of legislative
power to parliamentary scrutiny.
(2) A House of Parliament may pass a Bill whether or not the
Committee has reported on the Bill, but the Committee is not
precluded from making such a report because the Bill has been
so passed or has become an Act.
[8] Section 9 Functions with respect to regulations
Insert "with respect to regulations" after "functions of the Committee"
wherever occurring in section 9 (1) and (3).
[9] Section 10 Reports as to Bills or regulations
Omit "section 9" from section 10 (1). Insert instead "section 8A or 9" .
[10] Section 17
Insert at the end of the Act:
17 Savings and transitional provisions
(1) In this section:
the amending Act means the Legislation Review Amendment
Act 2002.
the reconstitution day means the day on which the amendment
made to section 4 by Schedule 1 [6] to the amending Act
commences.
(2) On and from the reconstitution day:
(a) the Regulation Review Committee constituted under
section 4 immediately before that day continues in
existence and is to be known as the Legislation Review
Committee, and
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Amendments Schedule 1
(b) anything done by, or in relation to, the Regulation
Review Committee is taken to have been done by, or in
relation to, the Legislation Review Committee, and
(c) a reference in any other Act, in any instrument made
under an Act or in any other document to the Regulation
Review Committee is to be read as a reference to the
Legislation Review Committee.
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Schedule 2 Consequential amendments of other Acts
Schedule 2 Consequential amendments of other Acts
(Section 4)
2.1 Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989 No 160
Schedule 1 Additional salaries and expense allowances
Omit "Chairman of the Regulation Review Committee constituted under the
Regulation Review Act 1987".
Insert instead "Chairman of the Legislation Review Committee constituted
under the Legislation Review Act 1987".
2.2 Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 No 146
[1] Section 3 Definitions
Insert in alphabetical order in section 3 (1):
Legislation Review Committee means the committee for the
time being constituted under the Legislation Review Act 1987.
[2] Section 3 (1), definition of "Regulation Review Committee"
Omit the definition.
[3] Sections 5 (4) and (5), 11 (4) and (5), 13 and 14 (2)
Omit "Regulation Review Committee" wherever occurring.
Insert instead "Legislation Review Committee".
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