Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 - SECT 21A

Incorporation of amendments

21A. Incorporation of amendments



(1) If an Act has been amended then in any reprinting of the Act the
Government Printer must, unless the Chief Parliamentary Counsel otherwise
approves, reprint the Act as so amended.

(2) There must be printed in a reprint of an Act-

   (a)  a reference to each Act or subordinate instrument by which the
        reprinted Act is amended; and

   (b)  a reference (whether in a sidenote, footnote or endnote) to each
        provision of the reprinted Act that is amended and the provision of
        the Act or subordinate instrument by which the amendment is made.

(3) In reprinting an Act the Government Printer may omit the indorsement on
the Act of the date of its passing.

(4) Nothing in subsection (3) affects the status of the indorsement as part of
the Act.

Note See Constitution Act 1975, section 69. _______________