The Act reorganises civil liability: it creates targeted defences and limits (for good Samaritans, volunteers, food donors, accommodation providers, carriers and digital intermediaries), updates defamation rules and caps, constrains public‑authority exposure, and sets procedural requirements, apportionment rules and damage‑calculation adjustments. It...

The Act establishes and runs the ACT Supreme Court and its Court of Appeal, sets how judges are appointed, paid and retired, and organizes who hears which matters. It gives the court civil and criminal jurisdiction, special procedures for treatment orders and related offences, and practical rules for court officers and evidence. Critically, it creates...

This Act fixes time limits for bringing civil claims in the ACT, defines when those limits pause, stop, or can be extended, and gives courts limited power to extend time in specified cases. It shifts risk to claimants to act promptly, gives defendants greater finality, imposes compliance tasks (notices, disclosure) and affects property rights and...

The Legal Profession Act 2006 sets who may practise law in the ACT and how legal services must be provided: it requires qualified, fit and proper people to hold practising certificates, regulates law firms and multidisciplinary practices, and tightly controls handling of client money, insurance, fees and complaints. It protects the public and the integrity...

The Legislation Act 2001 is the cornerstone legislation in the Australian Capital Territory that governs how laws are created, published, interpreted, and managed. It provides a set of default rules that apply to all ACT laws unless they specifically say otherwise. This includes rules about: How to interpret common words and expressions in laws (the...

The Evidence Act 2011 sets the rules for evidence in ACT courts: who can give or be compelled to give evidence, how witnesses are questioned, what documentary and identification material is admissible, notice and time‑limit obligations, and several statutory privileges (legal, professional, journalistic, religious). It affects parties, witnesses, lawyers,...

The Act defines a set of human rights for individuals and requires Territory laws and public authorities to consider and, where possible, be read compatibly with those rights. It provides judicial oversight (declarations of incompatibility) and a private enforcement route against public authorities (non‑monetary relief), plus AG compatibility statements and...

The Discrimination Act 1991 makes discrimination, sexual harassment and unlawful vilification unlawful across the ACT, defines a list of protected attributes, and covers everyday settings (employment, education, goods and services, accommodation, clubs, public authorities). It imposes positive duties and reasonable‑adjustment obligations on organisations...

The Act lets other superior courts hear ACT civil matters and sets mandatory rules to transfer cases to the most appropriate forum, with special procedures for federal related matters, limits on appeals from transfer decisions, and preservation of lawyers’ rights after transfer. It affects litigants, practitioners, Attorneys‑General, Commonwealth officers...

This Act creates a statutory pathway for eligible persons (individuals, corporations and certain organisations) to ask the ACT Supreme Court to review administrative decisions on questions of law, procedural fairness, conduct in decision‑making, and unreasonable delay. It sets short filing deadlines, broad judicial remedies, and a duty for decision‑makers...

This Act continues the Magistrates Court and sets how it is staffed, managed and replaced (magistrates, special magistrates and registrars), and how summary and committal criminal proceedings are run, including rules on evidence and pre‑trial disclosure. It establishes an infringement‑notice system (notably for vehicle/parking matters), fines and...

This Act sets up the territory workers‑compensation system: who counts as a worker, when employers/insurers must pay for medical care, weekly payments, lump sums, death benefits, rehabilitation and how claims, offsets and recoveries operate. Employers or their insurers (or the DI fund if uninsured) pay; regulators, licensed insurers and courts enforce...

The law creates a detailed criminal and administrative regime for drugs—including tailored cannabis rules—setting possession/supply offences, police search/seizure powers, and protocols for analysis, preservation and destruction of seized substances. It adds an out‑of‑court offence notice/diversion option for simple cases. It affects people who use,...

This Act creates and governs the Territory’s land registration system: how instruments must be presented, who may apply to bring land under the register, and the registrar‑general’s powers to require documents, enter caveats, accept electronic dealings and correct entries. It sets rules on indefeasibility of title and limited exceptions. The Act also...

The law creates a statutory right to progress payments for construction work and supplies, bars “pay‑when‑paid” clauses, and gives unpaid claimants a fast enforcement path — payment claim → payment schedule → expedited adjudication → judgment — plus a right to suspend work if unpaid. It shifts leverage toward contractors, subcontractors and suppliers while...

The Act creates a legal framework in the ACT for resolving financial consequences of adult domestic relationships: courts can adjust property and order maintenance, properly executed written agreements are enforceable, and a civil‑partnership registration route is provided. It affects adults in domestic relationships (and those with interests in their...

This Act creates a statutory code for trusts in the Australian Capital Territory: it defines trustees’ appointment, powers (investment, sale, leasing, delegation), duties, formalities (registered deeds, vesting/registration) and protections for third parties, and enables court and limited Ministerial supervision. It affects trustees (including trustee...

The Public Sector Management Act sets the legal framework for running the ACT public service: it creates the service, defines its core values and selection principles, and sets who decides on hiring, reclassification, transfers, discipline and SES contracts. It applies to all ACT public servants and the Territory as employer. The Act’s stated aim is an...

This Act creates the legal rules for residential tenancies in the Territory. It defines lessors and tenants, fixes mandatory standard terms for agreements, requires key pre‑contract disclosures and rental‑advertising information, regulates tenancy databases, and gives ACAT powers to endorse special terms, resolve disputes and order remedies. It affects...

This Act builds the ACT’s regulatory system for building work: it defines what counts as a building or building work, sets approval and certifier processes, inspection and enforcement powers, and establishes residential building insurance, fidelity‑fund governance and pool‑safety authorisations. It also requires sustainability guidelines for building...

This register page names the Court Procedures Act 2004 and centralises links to related resources (eg, Court Procedures Rules and forms), making it a navigation hub rather than the Act itself. It affects users who rely on the registry—members of the public, lawyers, court staff and government officers—by reducing search costs and easing access to official...

This Act establishes how adoptions in the ACT are started, approved and recognised — who may be adopted or adopt, consent and revocation rules, court hearings, record‑keeping and information access, criminal offences, and approval/oversight of private agencies. It also implements Hague Convention requirements for intercountry adoption. It affects...

This Act sets who may be released on bail in the ACT, who decides (courts and authorised police), the legal tests for release (presumptions for minor vs. excluded serious offences, and “special or exceptional” thresholds for murder/large‑scale drug crimes), and required criteria and conditions to manage risk. It also governs money, sureties, policing powers...

This Act creates a statutory incorporated association form in the ACT, setting how groups incorporate, govern themselves, hold property and comply with reporting, audit and conduct rules, and giving administrative and enforcement powers to the registrar general, courts and Minister. It mainly affects associations, their committees and public...

This Act consolidates routine land and property rules in the ACT, setting formalities for land interests, trustee duties, mortgagee powers and detailed lease and unit‑title regimes. It imposes pre‑contract disclosure and time‑bound remedies for off‑the‑plan buyers, statutory powers and procedures for lenders and receivers, and supervisory roles for the...

Mechanically, this Act prescribes the sentencing options, eligibility tests and court procedures in the ACT—imprisonment, intensive correction orders, suspended sentences, fines, good‑behaviour and drug‑and‑alcohol treatment orders, young‑offender therapeutic and accommodation orders, reparation, and restrictions (e.g. non‑association). It sets pre‑sentence...

This Act sets a nationally consistent work health and safety framework that makes people conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) legally responsible to eliminate or, if not possible, minimise workplace risks so far as is reasonably practicable. It creates worker protections (including health and safety representatives and committees), enforcement tools...

The Act establishes the Coroner’s Court and Chief Coroner and empowers coroners to investigate deaths, fires and disasters, hold inquests or inquiries, make findings and issue safety recommendations. It affects coroners, bereaved families, health providers, police, custodial agencies, hospitals and legal actors by imposing reporting, record‑retention and...