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Interpretation Act 1978
63AProcedure for making rules or by-laws
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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.
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(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.