{"id":"C2004L04282","name":"Defence Committee Regulations (Repeal)","slug":"defence-committee-regulations-repeal","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"256 of 1997","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":27160,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004L04282-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Defence Committee Regulations (Repeal)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nStatutory Rules 1997    No. 2561\n\n__________________\n\nDefence Committee Regulations (Repeal)\n\nI, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903.\n\nDated 17 September 1997.\n\n WILLIAM DEANE\n\n Governor-General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nIAN McLACHLAN\n\nMinister for Defence\n\n____________\n\n1.   Repeal of the Defence Committee Regulations\n\n1.1   Statutory Rules 1960 No. 91, 1968 No. 20 and 1971 Nos. 23 and 58 are repealed.\n\n[Note: This Regulation commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]\n\n \n\nNOTE\n\n1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 September 1997.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2314},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument eliminates the Defence Committee Regulations entirely, reducing their regulatory scope to zero. Rather than amending or updating the rules, it removes the statutory framework for the Defence Committee established under the Defence Act 1903."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (Regulation 1.1)","No definitions or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Only cross-reference is to the citation numbers of the repealed instruments"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation is legislative housekeeping: **it wipes four old Defence Committee Regulations off the books** (from 1960, 1968, and 1971).\n\n**What it means**: The Defence Committee – an advisory body under the *Defence Act 1903* – no longer needs its own set of rules. This repeal tidies up the statute book by formally removing those obsolete regulations.\n\n**Who it affects**: Unless you're a legal historian hunting for the 1960 Defence Committee Regulations (spoiler: they're gone), this won't impact you. It's a clean-up job, removing redundant red tape. The Committee itself had presumably been abolished or absorbed into other defence structures long before 1997, so keeping its rulebook was just clutter."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/defence-committee-regulations-repeal","history":"/api/acts/defence-committee-regulations-repeal/history","analysis":"/api/acts/defence-committee-regulations-repeal/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/defence-committee-regulations-repeal/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/defence-committee-regulations-repeal/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/defence-committee-regulations-repeal/documents"}}