63AProcedure for making rules or by-laws

63A Procedure for making rules or by-laws (1) If an Act contains a power to make rules or by-laws, a rule or by-law made under that power must be: (a) signed by: (i) the person making it; or (ii) if the person making it is a statutory corporation or a local government council – a person authorised by the corporation or council to sign it; and (b) once signed, given to the minister administering the provision containing the power. (2) Subject to this section, if a signed rule or by-law is given to a minister under subsection (1), that minister must: (a) as soon as practicable after it is made, cause it to be: (i) published; and (ii) notified in the Gazette; and (b) within 6 sitting days after it is notified in the Gazette, cause it to be tabled in the Legislative Assembly.

Interpretation Act 1978 41 (3) If a rule or by-law is given to a minister under subsection (1)(b), the minister may, before is it notified in the Gazette, return it to the person who signed it with a request for any amendment the minister recommends. (4) If a minister returns a rule or by-law under subsection (3), the person making the rule or by-law must: (a) consider the amendment; and (b) give the rule or by-law, signed in accordance with subsection (1)(a), to the minister, with or without the amendment included. (5) Subsection (2) applies to a rule or by-law given to the minister under subsection (4)(b). (6) Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to a by-law made under the Unit Title Schemes Act 2009 or the Unit Titles Act 1975.