12Citations and references to law

12 Citations and references to law

(1)  If a law has a citation that includes a comma before or after a year in the citation, the citation or a reference to the law may be given omitting the comma.

(2)  If a law has a citation that begins and ends with inverted commas, the citation or a reference to the law may be given omitting the inverted commas.

(3)  If a law has a citation that begins with the word "The", the citation or a reference to the law may be given omitting the word.

(4)  If an Act has a citation that does not include the word "Act", the citation or a reference to the Act may be given including the word "Act" and any necessary consequential amendments may be made to the citation or reference.

(5)  If a law has a citation that does not include a year, the citation or a reference to the law may be given including the year in which the law was made.

(6)  In a provision of a law, a reference to another law may be given omitting from the reference any words occurring after the first year.

(7)  If a law does not have a citation, it may be given a citation that is consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

(8)  If a law has a citation that is inconsistent with current legislative drafting practice in a way that is not mentioned in subsections (1) to (6) , the citation may be given in a way that is consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

(9)  If there is a reference to a law's citation and since the reference was made the citation has been amended by another law or under subsections (1) to (8) , the reference may be given using the citation as amended.

(10)  In this section,

law includes a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory.