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(1) The Acts and statutory rules of this State are to be taken in all circumstances and for all purposes to be as they appear from time to time in the authorised version of the Acts and statutory rules.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), on and after the commencement of this Act, the authorised version of an Act at any particular date is that version of the Act which is on the database as at that date.
(3) The authorised version of an Act passed before the commencement of this Act and not on the database is that Act as deposited and kept among the records of the Supreme Court.
(3A) The authorised version of an Act passed after the commencement of this Act and not on the database is that Act as deposited and kept among the records of the Supreme Court.
(4) Subject to subsection (8), the authorised version of an Act passed before the commencement of this Act and not on the database, as at a particular date before the commencement of this Act, is that Act, as deposited and kept among the records of the Supreme Court, read and construed with any Act amending that Act as deposited and kept among those records.
(5) Subject to subsections (6) and (7), on and after the commencement of this Act, the authorised version of a statutory rule at any particular date is the version of the statutory rule which is on the database as at that date.
(6) The authorised version of a statutory rule made before the commencement of this Act and which is not on the database is that statutory rule as deposited and kept among the records of the responsible Department in relation to the Justices Act 1959.
(6A) The authorised version of a statutory rule made after the commencement of this Act and not on the database is that statutory rule as filed and recorded by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel.
(7) Subject to subsection (8), the authorised version of a statutory rule made before the commencement of this Act, as at a particular date before the commencement of this Act, is that statutory rule, as deposited and kept among the records of the responsible Department in relation to the Justices Act 1959, read and construed with any statutory rule amending that statutory rule as deposited and kept among those records.
(8) If an Act passed or a statutory rule made before the commencement of this Act and is not on the database was reprinted under the Acts Reprinting Act 1979, the authorised version of that Act or statutory rule, as at a particular date before the commencement of this Act, is the reprint of that Act or statutory rule as in force at that date.
(9) All Acts and statutory rules on the database are to include a certificate of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel indicating that –
(a) the Act or statutory rule is the authorised version at the date specified in the certificate; and
(b) the Act or statutory rule incorporates all amendments, if any, made before and in force as at the date shown on the certificate and any reprint changes –
(i) made under any Act, in force before the commencement of this Act, authorising the reprint of the Acts and statutory rules; or
(ii) permitted under this Act and made before that date.
(10) The Chief Parliamentary Counsel may approve the production of copies of authorised versions of Acts or statutory rules and copies of reprints of Acts or statutory rules in electronic or printed form by a person approved in writing by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel for the purposes of production or distribution.
(11) A copy of an Act or a statutory rule or the reprint of an Act or a statutory rule produced under subsection (10) is to contain a statement to the effect that the copy is produced with the approval of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel.