{"id":"F2025L01075","name":"Legislation (General) Regulations 2025","slug":"legislation-general-regulations-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442955,"registerId":"F2025L01075-fast-fetch-1775957868511","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Legislation (General) Regulations 2025","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nLegislation (General) Regulations 2025\n\nI, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.\n\nDated 4 September 2025\n\nMargaret Beazley AC KC\n\nAdministrator\n\nBy Her Excellency’s Command\n\nMichelle Rowland\n\nAttorney‑General\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Schedules\n\n5 Definitions\n\nPart 2—Continuing disallowance provisions\n\n6 Continuing disallowance provisions\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nLegislation (General) Regulation 2015\n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Legislation (General) Regulations 2025.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 12 September 2025\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the Legislation Act 2003.\n\n4  Schedules\n\n  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.\n\n5  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Legislation Act 2003.\n\nPart 2—Continuing disallowance provisions\n\n \n\n6  Continuing disallowance provisions\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 57(5) of the Act, subsection 57(2) of the Act does not apply to the disallowance provisions in subsections 7(8) and (8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.\n\nNote 1: Under subsection 57(2) of the Act, sections 42 to 48 of the Act are taken to apply to a document that is a legislative instrument to the exclusion of disallowance provisions in force before 1 January 2005 that applied in relation to the document.\n\nNote 2: The effect of this section is that the disallowance provisions in subsections 7(8) and (8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 continue to apply instead of the disallowance provisions in sections 42 to 48 of the Legislation Act 2003.\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\n \n\nLegislation (General) Regulation 2015\n\n1  The whole of the instrument\n\nRepeal the instrument.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This regulation maintains the exact same scope as its 2015 predecessor. It performs a straightforward 'sunsetting' replacement — repealing the 2015 regulations and re-enacting the same substantive provision (continuing the application of pre-2005 disallowance provisions for the Remuneration Tribunal). There is no expansion of scope or new policy content."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (6 substantive sections plus Schedule)","Only 2 defined terms ('Act' and implicit references)","Single operative provision (section 6) with straightforward conditional logic","Heavy reliance on external statutory cross-references (Legislation Act 2003, Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973) but these are clearly signposted","No nested exceptions or conditional layers — one clear carve-out from standard rules","Standard template structure (Preliminary, substantive provision, Repeals schedule)"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations preserve the older disallowance procedure in the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 for decisions about MPs’, judges’ and senior officials’ pay, exempting those decisions from the general disallowance rules in the Legislation Act 2003. It keeps the pre-2005 parliamentary oversight process in place rather than switching to the modern standard, ensuring continuity of scrutiny, and repeals and replaces the 2015 version of the provision."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Yes. The instrument removes the Legislation (General) Regulation 2015 (Schedule 1) and carves out the Remuneration Tribunal’s disallowance provisions from the Legislation Act 2003’s default disallowance regime by making subsection 57(2) inapplicable in respect of subsections 7(8) and 7(8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 (Regulation 6). This narrows the application of ss 42–48 of the Legislation Act to exclude those Tribunal provisions."},"complexity_factors":["Short instrument with one substantive operative provision (Regulation 6) and a repeal (Schedule 1).","Relies on cross‑references to the Legislation Act 2003 (ss 57(2), 57(5)) and the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 (ss 7(8), 7(8A)), requiring statutory interpretation of interaction between Acts.","Preservation of a pre‑2005 disallowance regime creates reliance on historical legislative context rather than new procedural rules.","Low compliance and administrative burden: no new procedural requirements for regulated parties are created by this instrument.","Potential for interpretative questions about the scope and timing of the saved disallowance provisions, though the instrument states the intended effect directly (s 6)."],"plain_english_summary":"These Regulations repeal the Legislation (General) Regulation 2015 and preserve specified parliamentary disallowance arrangements in the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973. Mechanically, they make subsection 57(2) of the Legislation Act 2003 inapplicable to the Tribunal’s disallowance provisions (subsections 7(8) and 7(8A)), so those pre‑2005 disallowance rules continue to operate. The change affects the Remuneration Tribunal, people covered by its determinations, and Parliament’s disallowance procedure."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/legislation-general-regulations-2025","history":"/api/acts/legislation-general-regulations-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/legislation-general-regulations-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/legislation-general-regulations-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/legislation-general-regulations-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/legislation-general-regulations-2025/documents"}}