5Printing, numbering and sale of statutory rules

##### 5 Printing, numbering and sale of 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.