38AReferences to documents

38A References to documents

If an applied law requires or permits something to be done in accordance with, or having regard to, a document made, approved or published under, or for the purposes of, an applied law or a law of New South Wales, the reference to the document is taken to be a reference to: (a) any such document made, approved or published in relation to the Territory of Norfolk Island in force or existing at the time the thing is to be done (the relevant time); or (b) if there is no document made, approved or published in relation to the Territory of Norfolk Island in force or existing at the relevant time—the document made, approved or published under, or for the purposes of, the law as in force in New South Wales, as the document is in force or exists at the relevant time.