New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INTERPRETATION ACT 1987 - SECT 69

69 References to publications other than Acts or instruments

(1) In any Act or instrument, a reference to a publication other than an Act or instrument is a reference to the publication:

(a) if a particular day is specified for that purpose in the Act or instrument-as in force or current on that particular day, or

(b) in any other case-as in force or current on the day on which the provision containing the reference took effect.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a reference in any Act or instrument to a publication extends to the publication, as in force for the time being:

(a) if that intention appears in the Act or instrument, and

(b) where that intention appears in the instrument-if the Act under which the instrument is made provides that such instruments may apply, adopt or incorporate publications, as in force for the time being.