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Short title and commencement [see Note1]
1 Short title and commencement [see Note1]
This Act may be cited as the Statutory Rules Publication Act 1903, and shall commence on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and four.
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This Act may be cited as the Statutory Rules Publication Act 1903, and shall commence on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and four.
In this Act:
Statutory rules means rules, regulations, or by‑laws, made under any Act, which:
(a) relate to any Court within the Commonwealth, or to the procedure, practice, or costs therein, or to any fees or matters applying generally throughout the Commonwealth or any part of the Commonwealth; or
(b) are made by the Governor‑General, or any Minister, or the Inter‑State Commission, or any Government department.
Rule‑making authority includes every authority authorized to make any statutory rules.
(1) All statutory rules shall forthwith after they are made be sent to the Government Printer, and shall, in manner prescribed, be numbered, and (save as prescribed) printed and sold by him. (2) Any statutory rules may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the number so given and the calendar year. (3) Where any statutory rules are required by any Act to be published or notified in the Gazette, a notice in the Gazette of the rules having been made, and of the place or places where copies of them can be purchased, shall be sufficient compliance with that requirement. (3A) Where a notice of statutory rules having been made is published in accordance with subsection (3), copies of the statutory rules shall, at the time of publication of the notice or as soon as practicable thereafter, be made available for purchase at the place, or at each of the places, specified in the notice. (3B) Where, on the date of publication of a notice referred to in subsection (3A), there are no copies of the statutory rules to which the notice relates available for purchase at the place, or at one or more of the places, specified in the notice, the Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism shall cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting days of that House after that date, a statement that copies of the statutory rules were not so available and the reason why they were not so available. (3C) Failure to comply with a requirement of subsection (3A) or (3B) in relation to any statutory rules shall not be taken to constitute a failure to comply with subsection (3) or with any provision of any Act with respect to the publication or notification of the statutory rules in the Gazette. (4) Regulations under this Act may prescribe the classes of cases in which the exercise of a statutory power by any rule‑making authority constitutes or does not constitute the making of a statutory rule within the meaning of this section.
(1) Where any statutory rules have, before or after the commencement of this section, been amended by: (a) the repeal or omission of certain words or figures; (b) the substitution of certain words or figures in lieu of any repealed or omitted words or figures; or (c) the insertion of certain words or figures; then, in any reprint of the statutory rules by the Government Printer, the statutory rules shall be printed as so amended. (2) In every reprint of any statutory rules as so amended, reference shall be made in the margin, or in a footnote or endnote, to the statutory rules or other instrument by which the amendment is made. (3) When any statutory rules prescribe a method of citation of some other statutory rules, those other statutory rules shall be deemed to be amended by substituting that method of citation for the citation of those other statutory rules, and in every reprint of those other statutory rules that method of citation shall be substituted accordingly. (4) There shall be printed on every reprint issued by the Government Printer of any statutory rules which have, before or after the commencement of this Act, been amended, a short reference to every statutory rule or other instrument by which they have been amended. (5) In this section, words includes Part, Division, heading, regulation, subregulation, paragraph and Schedule.
(1) The Governor‑General may make Regulations for carrying this Act into effect.
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This Act may be cited as the Statutory Rules Publication Act 1903, and shall commence on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and four.
In this Act:
Statutory rules means rules, regulations, or by‑laws, made under any Act, which:
(a) relate to any Court within the Commonwealth, or to the procedure, practice, or costs therein, or to any fees or matters applying generally throughout the Commonwealth or any part of the Commonwealth; or
(b) are made by the Governor‑General, or any Minister, or the Inter‑State Commission, or any Government department.
Rule‑making authority includes every authority authorized to make any statutory rules.
(1) All statutory rules shall forthwith after they are made be sent to the Government Printer, and shall, in manner prescribed, be numbered, and (save as prescribed) printed and sold by him. (2) Any statutory rules may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the number so given and the calendar year. (3) Where any statutory rules are required by any Act to be published or notified in the Gazette, a notice in the Gazette of the rules having been made, and of the place or places where copies of them can be purchased, shall be sufficient compliance with that requirement. (3A) Where a notice of statutory rules having been made is published in accordance with subsection (3), copies of the statutory rules shall, at the time of publication of the notice or as soon as practicable thereafter, be made available for purchase at the place, or at each of the places, specified in the notice. (3B) Where, on the date of publication of a notice referred to in subsection (3A), there are no copies of the statutory rules to which the notice relates available for purchase at the place, or at one or more of the places, specified in the notice, the Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism shall cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting days of that House after that date, a statement that copies of the statutory rules were not so available and the reason why they were not so available. (3C) Failure to comply with a requirement of subsection (3A) or (3B) in relation to any statutory rules shall not be taken to constitute a failure to comply with subsection (3) or with any provision of any Act with respect to the publication or notification of the statutory rules in the Gazette. (4) Regulations under this Act may prescribe the classes of cases in which the exercise of a statutory power by any rule‑making authority constitutes or does not constitute the making of a statutory rule within the meaning of this section.
(1) Where any statutory rules have, before or after the commencement of this section, been amended by: (a) the repeal or omission of certain words or figures; (b) the substitution of certain words or figures in lieu of any repealed or omitted words or figures; or (c) the insertion of certain words or figures; then, in any reprint of the statutory rules by the Government Printer, the statutory rules shall be printed as so amended. (2) In every reprint of any statutory rules as so amended, reference shall be made in the margin, or in a footnote or endnote, to the statutory rules or other instrument by which the amendment is made. (3) When any statutory rules prescribe a method of citation of some other statutory rules, those other statutory rules shall be deemed to be amended by substituting that method of citation for the citation of those other statutory rules, and in every reprint of those other statutory rules that method of citation shall be substituted accordingly. (4) There shall be printed on every reprint issued by the Government Printer of any statutory rules which have, before or after the commencement of this Act, been amended, a short reference to every statutory rule or other instrument by which they have been amended. (5) In this section, words includes Part, Division, heading, regulation, subregulation, paragraph and Schedule.
(1) The Governor‑General may make Regulations for carrying this Act into effect.