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Queensland act
The Reprints Act 1992 is a Queensland law that governs how the Parliamentary Counsel (the government's chief law drafter) can update and republish Queensland legislation in a clean, modernised format called a reprint.
This law primarily affects:
In practical terms, this is the law that allows the government to produce the clean, up-to-date versions of Acts and regulations that you read on the Queensland legislation website.
When a law gets amended (changed), the Parliamentary Counsel can publish an updated version showing all changes incorporated. The Act sets detailed rules about what kinds of changes can be made in a reprint without going back to Parliament. These are called editorial changes and include:
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Direct links to the current provisions in Reprints Act 1992.
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View on official registerSourced from Queensland Legislation (legislation.qld.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.
All these editorial changes cannot change the legal effect of any provision. They're purely cosmetic and structural — the law must mean the same thing before and after the reprint.
Without this Act, every single update to Queensland law — even fixing a typo — would require a new Act of Parliament. This law makes the Queensland legislation website possible: that clean, consolidated, up-to-date version of the law that everyone can access and rely on.