{"id":"C1956L00015","name":"Re-establishment and Employment (Preference Boards) Regulations","slug":"c1956l00015","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"15 of 1956","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":320696,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1956L00015-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Re-establishment and Employment (Preference Boards) Regulations","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nSTATUTORY RULES.\n\n1956. No. .\n\n––––––––––\n\nREGULATION UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945-1955.*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1955.\n\nDated this twenty-first day of February 1956.\n\nW. J. Slim\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\n(SGD.) J. A. SPICER\n\nAttorney-General.\n\n––––––\n\nRepeal of the Re-establishment and Employment (Preference Boards) Regulations.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 15, are repealed.\n\n \n\n* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.\n\n––––––––––––––\n\nBy Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n329/56.—Price 3d.  9/24.1.1956.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1826},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulation maintains the same subject matter (Preference Boards under the Re-establishment and Employment Act). While it repeals the 1946 rules, it does not alter the fundamental scope or authority of the preference board system established by the parent Act."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision consisting of one repeal clause","No defined terms or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or schedules attached","Only cross-references are to the enabling Act and the repealed instrument"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation **repeals (cancels)** the 1946 Preference Boards regulations made under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1955.\n\n**What it does:**\n*   **Scraps the old rules:** It officially removes Statutory Rules 1946 No. 15 from the books.\n*   **Context:** The Re-establishment and Employment Act was post-WWII legislation that helped returning servicemen (veterans) get their old jobs back or find new ones. \"Preference Boards\" were tribunals that decided disputes about these employment rights.\n\n**Why it matters:**\nWhile this specific document only shows the repeal of the old rules, it signals that the government was updating how these veteran employment disputes would be handled in 1956—presumably replacing the 1946 rules with new provisions to reflect changing circumstances nearly a decade after the war ended."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/c1956l00015","history":"/api/acts/c1956l00015/history","analysis":"/api/acts/c1956l00015/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/c1956l00015/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/c1956l00015/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/c1956l00015/documents"}}