New South Wales Consolidated ActsReprint No 1 15 September 2009
This Act:
(a) recognises and values the different linguistic, religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds of the people of New South Wales, and
(b) promotes the equal rights and responsibilities of all the people of New South Wales within a cohesive and harmonious multicultural society in which diversity is regarded as a strength and an asset, individuals share a commitment to Australia, and English is the common language.
The Legislature of New South Wales therefore enacts:
The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:
| Am | amended | LW | legislation website | Sch | Schedule | |
| Cl | clause | No | number | Schs | Schedules | |
| Cll | clauses | p | page | Sec | section | |
| Div | Division | pp | pages | Secs | sections | |
| Divs | Divisions | Reg | Regulation | Subdiv | Subdivision | |
| GG | Government Gazette | Regs | Regulations | Subdivs | Subdivisions | |
| Ins | inserted | Rep | repealed | Subst | substituted |
| 2003 | No 50 | Community Relations Commission and
Principles of Multiculturalism Amendment Act 2003. Assented to 23.10.2003. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. |
| No 82 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions)
Act (No 2) 2003. Assented to 27.11.2003. Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (1). | |
| 2006 | No 2 | Public Sector Employment Legislation
Amendment Act 2006. Assented to 13.3.2006. Date of commencement, 17.3.2006, sec 2 and GG No 35 of 17.3.2006, p 1378. |
| 2009 | No 96 | Public Sector Restructure
(Miscellaneous Acts Amendments) Act 2009. Assented to 30.11.2009. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1). |
| 2010 | No 62 | Community Relations Commission and
Principles of Multiculturalism Amendment Act 2010. Assented to 28.6.2010. Date of commencement of Sch 1, assent, sec 2 (1). |
| No 119 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act (No 2) 2010. Assented to 29.11.2010. Date of commencement of Sch 1.4, 7.1.2011, sec 2 (2). |
| Sec 3 | Am 2010 No 62, Sch 1 [1]. |
| Sec 7 | Am 2003 No 50, Sch 1 [1] [2]; 2010 No 119, Sch 1.4 [1]. |
| Sec 8 | Am 2003 No 50, Sch 2 [1]. |
| Sec 9 | Am 2003 No 50, Sch 2 [1]. Rep 2006 No 2, Sch 4.12 [1]. |
| Sec 13 | Am 2003 No 50, Sch 1 [3]; 2006 No 2, Sch 4.12 [2]; 2010 No 62, Sch 1 [2]-[5]. |
| Sec 14 | Am 2010 No 62, Sch 1 [6]. |
| Sec 18 | Am 2010 No 62, Sch 1 [7]. |
| Sec 24 | Rep 2003 No 82, Sch 3. |
| Sch 1 | Am 2003 No 50, Sch 2 [2] [3]; 2009 No 96, Sch 4 [1]-[3]; 2010 No 62, Sch 1 [8]-[10]. |
| Sch 2 | Am 2009 No 96, Sch 4 [4]; 2010 No 62, Sch 1 [11]; 2010 No 119, Sch 1.4 [2]. |
| Sch 3 | Rep 2003 No 82, Sch 3. |
| Sch 4 | Am 2003 No 50, Sch 1 [4]. |