{"id":"C1956L00097","name":"Pacific Island Labourers Regulations (Repeal)","slug":"pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"97 of 1956","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":23678,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1956L00097-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Pacific Island Labourers Regulations (Repeal)","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 PACIFIC ISLAND LABOURERS ACT 1901-1950.*\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 Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901-1950.\n\nDated this fourteenth day of December, 1956.\n\nW. J. Slim\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\n![Signature of Athol Townley](image.001.jpeg)\n\nMinister of State for Immigration.\n\n \n\nRepeal of the Pacific Island Labourers Regulations.\n\nThe Pacific Island Labourers Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1906, No. 71) are repealed.\n\n \n\n* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.\n\n \n\nBy Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n4530/55.—Price 3d. 9/2.11.1956.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1146},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulation performs exactly what its title indicates: repealing the 1906 Regulations. It has not expanded beyond this singular, limited housekeeping purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (one sentence)","No defined terms or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","No cross-references to other legislative provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:** This regulation simply repeals (cancels) the Pacific Island Labourers Regulations made back in 1906.\n\n**Why it matters:** The 1906 Regulations were detailed rules governing the employment of Pacific Island labourers—workers brought to Australia (mainly Queensland sugar plantations) under indentured contracts. This system, often associated with the historical practice of \"blackbirding,\" was effectively abolished decades earlier when most workers were deported around 1906–1908. By 1956, the regulations were obsolete \"dead wood,\" and this instrument formally removes them from the statute books as a housekeeping measure.\n\n**Who it affects:** No one directly—this is purely administrative cleanup of outdated legislation. However, it marks a formal endpoint to the regulatory framework of a significant and controversial chapter in Australian immigration and labour history."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal","history":"/api/acts/pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal/history","analysis":"/api/acts/pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/pacific-island-labourers-regulations-repeal/documents"}}