SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1994 - SECT 16F Instrument maker to ensure consolidated version of legislative instrument is available

SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1994 - SECT 16F

    (1)     Subject to subsection (3), as soon as practicable after a legislative instrument which amends an existing legislative instrument is published in the Government Gazette under section 16A, the instrument maker must ensure that an up to date consolidated version of the legislative instrument being amended by that amending legislative instrument is prepared incorporating those amendments.

    (2)     The instrument maker must cause the up to date consolidated version of the legislative instrument prepared under subsection (1) to be—

        (a)     available for inspection by any person free of charge during office hours at—

              (i)     the principal office of the instrument maker; or

              (ii)     the Department of the responsible Minister in relation to the legislative instrument; and

        (b)     published on the Internet.

    (3)     If the Governor in Council is the instrument maker, the responsible Minister must ensure that this section is complied with.

    (4)     A failure to comply with this section does not affect the operation or effect of the amending legislative instrument published in the Government Gazette under section 16A.

Pt 4 (Heading) amended by No. 78/2010 s. 32.

Part 4—Publication and availability of statutory rules