Version incorporating amendments as at
18 June 2025
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation Page
1 Objective 1
2 Authorising provision 1
3 Commencement 1
4 Revocations 1
5 Publishing with table of incorporated matter 2
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Endnotes 3
1 General information 3
2 Table of Amendments 5
3 Explanatory details 6
Version No.002
Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2024
S.R. No. 51/2024
Version incorporating amendments as at
18 June 2025
Reg. 1 substituted by S.R. No. 56/2025 reg. 4.
1 Objective
The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe the requirements for printing and publication of statutory rules that apply, adopt or incorporate matter.
2 Authorising provision
These Regulations are made under section 28 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994.
3 Commencement
These Regulations come into operation on 23 June 2024.
4 Revocations
The following Regulations are revoked—
(a) the Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2014[1];
(b) the Subordinate Legislation Amendment Regulations 2015[2];
(c) the Subordinate Legislation Amendment (Prescribed Bookshop) Regulations 2019[3];
(d) the Subordinate Legislation Amendment Regulations 2021[4];
(e) the Subordinate Legislation Amendment (Prescribed Bookshop) Regulations 2022[5].
5 Publishing with table of incorporated matter
(1) If a statutory rule applies, adopts or incorporates any matter contained in a document, the statutory rule must be published with a footnote or endnote containing a table—
(a) specifying the document referred to in the statutory rule that contains the matter that is applied, adopted or incorporated; and
(b) indicating the provision of the statutory rule to which the matter applied, adopted or incorporated relates.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to any matter contained in any of the following referred to in section 32(2)(a) of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984—
(a) an Act;
(b) a Commonwealth Act;
(c) a Code;
(d) a statutory rule;
(e) a statutory rule made under a Commonwealth Act.
Reg. 6 revoked by S.R. No. 56/2025 reg. 5.
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Endnotes
1 General information
See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.
The Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2024, S.R. No. 51/2024 were made on 18 June 2024 by the Governor in Council under section 28 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994, No. 104/1994 and came into operation on 23 June 2024: regulation 3.
The Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2024 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 18 June 2034 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).
INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)
Style changes
Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.
References to ILA s. 39B
Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.
Interpretation
As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:
• Headings
All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).
• Examples, diagrams or notes
All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule. See section 36(3A).
• Punctuation
All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule. Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).
• Provision numbers
All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001. Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).
• Location of "legislative items"
A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.
• Other material
Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule. See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).
2 Table of Amendments
This publication incorporates amendments made to the Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2024 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.