South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts7—Alterations that may be made in revising legislation
(1) In revising
legislation under this Act—
(a) the
following may be omitted:
(i)
provisions setting out the arrangement of the legislation
or its provisions;
(ii)
provisions (that have commenced) consisting of repeals,
revocations, amendments or variations of legislation;
(iii)
saving, transitional or validation provisions that apply
only to a time or event that has passed;
(iv)
other provisions that are spent or have expired or
otherwise ceased to have effect; and
(b) the
long title to an Act and any relevant headings may be altered so as to take
account of the omission of provisions under this Act; and
(c)
obsolete headings may be omitted; and
(d) if
the legislation contains a minor error or would contain a minor error if
consolidated in a particular way, the legislation may be expressed in a
different way so as to correct or avoid the error; and
(e) a
reference to legislation or a legislative provision for which some other
legislation or provision has been substituted may be altered to a reference to
the substituted legislation or provision; and
(f) a
reference to a name, title or citation of any place, person, authority or
legislation that has been changed by or under an Act or law may be altered to
the name, title or citation as so changed; and
(g)
figures that indicate a year of the 20th century may be replaced with figures
that indicate a year of the 21st century if the figures relate to an act to be
performed in future; and
(h) to
achieve consistency with current practice or uniformity in style—
(i)
the enacting words in an Act may be altered and, where
the enacting words are included in a preamble, they may be separated from the
preamble; and
(ii)
a heading may be inserted above a preamble to indicate
that it is a preamble; and
(iii)
the style of references to legislation or to
non-legislative works may be altered; and
(iv)
spelling may be altered; and
(v)
numbering may be altered, deleted or added; and
(vi)
expressions of a number, year, date or time or of a
quantity or measurement may be expressed differently; and
(vii)
an amount of money that is not expressed as an amount in
decimal currency may be expressed as an amount in decimal currency if,
according to the provisions of the Decimal Currency Act 1965 , it is to
be read as such; and
(viii)
a penalty at the foot of a provision may be stated to be
a maximum penalty if it is so by virtue of the
Acts Interpretation Act 1915 ; and
(ix)
formatting or any other matter related to presentation
may be altered (including, for example, the setting out of provisions, the
type, the use of symbols in place of words having the same meaning, the
placement of conjunctives and disjunctives and the use of capital letters,
punctuation, hyphens, italics, bolding and quotation marks); and
(i)
alterations of a kind prescribed by regulation may be
made.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not permit alterations to legislation that would
change the effect of the legislation.
(3) Nothing prevents
the alteration or removal in the course of revision of material that appears
within legislation but does not form part of the legislation for
interpretation purposes (such as section headings, contents lists, notes about
commencement or footnotes), nor does anything prevent the inclusion of further
such material in the course of revision.
(4) If legislation is
revised under this Act, legislative history notes must be made publicly
available recording—
(a) the
instruments by which the legislation has been amended or varied; and
(b) how
the provisions of the legislation have been affected by those instruments; and
(c)
relevant assent and commencement dates for those instruments; and
(d) the
omission of provisions under this section.