{"id":"C2004L09700","name":"Rules Publication Rules","slug":"rules-publication-rules","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":28370,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004L09700-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Rules Publication Rules","content":"Commonwealth of Australia.\n\nAttorney-General’s Department,\n\nMelbourne, 18th December, 1903.\n\nRULES UNDER THE “RULES PUBLICATION ACT 1903.”\n\nH\n\nIS Excellency the Governor-General, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Rules Publication Act 1903, has been pleased to make the following Rules.\n\nJAMES G. DRAKE,\n\nAttorney-General.\n\n––––\n\nDefinition.\n\n1\\. In these Regulations “the Act” means the Rules Publication Act 1903.\n\nWhat deemed Making of a Statutory Rule.\n\n2\\. Every exercise of a statutory power by a rule-making authority which is of a legislative and not an executive character shall constitute the making of a statutory rule within section 5 of the Act and these Regulations.\n\nNumbering of statutory Rules.\n\n3\\. All statutory rules when sent to the Government Printer, as required by the Act, shall be numbered consecutively as nearly as may be in the order in which he receives them, beginning in each year with the number one.\n\nPrinting and Selling of Statutory Rules.\n\n4\\. All statutory rules shall be printed and sold, unless, in the case of rules not required to be published in the Gazette, the rulemaking authority declares that it is not necessary to print and sell them.\n\nPrice of Statutory Rules.\n\n5\\. The sum for which any draft rules may be obtained as provided in section 3 of the Act shall be such sum, not exceeding 3d. per page or part of a page, as is fixed in each case by the Government Printer.\n\n6\\. These rules shall take effect on the 1st day of January. 1904.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1840},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"These are the original 1903 rules establishing the foundational framework for the publication, numbering, and sale of statutory rules under the Rules Publication Act 1903. The scope remains confined to procedural machinery for rule publication."},"complexity_factors":["Only 6 short provisions covering discrete procedural topics","Single interpretation clause","No nested exceptions or conditional logic chains","Minimal cross-referencing (only to the parent Act)","Straightforward command-based language ('shall be numbered', 'shall be printed')"],"plain_english_summary":"These 1903 rules set up how Commonwealth statutory rules are treated: they say when a government authority’s general regulatory act counts as a “rule,” require such rules to be printed, numbered sequentially each year, and made available for sale (unless printing is judged unnecessary), and limit draft-rule price to 3 pence per page.  \n\nThey created the basic system ensuring ministerial and agency-made regulations were recorded, public, and accessible."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/rules-publication-rules","history":"/api/acts/rules-publication-rules/history","analysis":"/api/acts/rules-publication-rules/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/rules-publication-rules/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/rules-publication-rules/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/rules-publication-rules/documents"}}