This Act overhauls civil‑wrongs law: it redefines occupiers’ duties, narrows recoverable non‑economic loss by requiring medical impairment thresholds and formal assessments, creates a proportionate liability regime among multiple wrongdoers, and tightens defamation rules and publisher identification (with criminal and monetary penalties). It matters to...

This Act creates a statutory scheme for compensation, medical care and rehabilitation for workplace injuries and diseases, setting who is eligible, how payments and services are calculated and delivered, and when benefits are limited or excluded. It allocates initial financial responsibility to employers/insurers (with the Authority as...

The Limitation of Actions Act 1958 sets when civil claims and arbitrations in Victoria must be started, who can extend or suspend those deadlines, and when limitations do not apply. It changes exposure for claimants, defendants, public bodies and insurers by combining discovery style rules, special child‑abuse exceptions and protections for public land....

This law creates a central, state‑administered Register of Titles and gives the Registrar broad powers to record, correct and certify land titles, handle transfers, caveats and compulsory acquisition, and integrate electronic lodgement. It also enables conversion of older subdivision structures into modern formats. It affects landowners, purchasers,...

This Act reforms how land and related interests are dealt with in Victoria by setting rules for registration and custody of deeds, implied contractual terms for sales and mortgages, trustees’ powers, how covenants run and may be modified, and statutory remedies for mortgage enforcement. It affects buyers, sellers, mortgagors, mortgagees, trustees,...

The Act centralises default rules for reading, citing, commencing and publishing Victorian Acts and subordinate instruments, supplies uniform definitions, governs incorporation‑by‑reference, delegation and acting appointments, and creates an “authorised version” regime for electronic and printed texts and online publication. It matters to Parliament,...

The Act replaces the old Occupational Health and Safety Act with a new, comprehensive workplace health and safety framework and a strengthened Victorian WorkCover Authority as regulator. It imposes broad, “reasonably practicable” duties on employers, labour‑hire hirers, self‑employed persons, workers and designers/suppliers, adds strict...

The Sentencing Act 1991 sets the rules Victorian courts follow when punishing people convicted of crimes, prescribing sentencing objectives (punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, denunciation) and a range of outcomes from custody to community based orders, with special approaches for young people, those with mental illness, serious repeat offenders, and...

The Act gives trustees, executors and administrators broad statutory powers to invest, manage and deal with trust property, sets care, review and advice‑taking duties, and creates specific liability protections and Court remedies. It affects trustees, beneficiaries, purchasers and mortgagees and matters because it reallocates operational costs, legal risk...

The Act creates a single, uniform evidence code for Victorian courts (bringing Victoria into line with Commonwealth/NSW), governing who must and can give evidence, how identification material may be used, and when lawyer‑client and litigation communications are protected or lose privilege. It matters because it centralises evidentiary rules—shaping...

The law replaces references to the Australian Loan Council maximum with a single statutory “penalty interest rate” set and published by the Attorney‑General after a Treasurer recommendation of an institutional rate, with an added or subtracted penalty adjustment. It makes creditors entitled to interest at that published rate (and debtors liable), deems...

The law creates a statutory right to access government documents and requires agencies to publish how they operate, while establishing a permanent Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (with deputies and staff) to oversee requests, reviews, investigations and professional standards. It preserves other access and privacy regimes. It affects...

This part sets out VCAT’s case‑management, ADR and enforcement framework: who must be served or notified, who may join or intervene, powers to direct, dismiss or strike out, require document production, order security for costs, and compel mediation or a residential tenancy ADR pathway. It affects applicants, respondents, intervenors, non‑parties holding...

Modernises and consolidates criminal procedure in Victoria: it sets how prosecutions start (charge‑sheets, notices), introduces a ‘notice to appear’ process and new pre‑trial disclosure and case‑management steps, clarifies when matters are dealt with summarily, and reforms appeals and sentencing rules. It affects accused people, informants (police/DPP),...

This Act creates and organises the Magistrates' Court of Victoria, setting who may hear cases, how proceedings run, and the Court’s civil and criminal limits. It establishes specialist divisions (Drug Court, Koori Court, Specialist Family Violence, Neighbourhood Justice), procedural powers (costs, contempt, witness directions), rulemaking by the Chief...

The Act creates a single overarching purpose for civil courts — to secure just, efficient, timely and cost‑effective resolution — and imposes mandatory obligations on parties, lawyers, insurers and funders (and some experts) to cooperate, act honestly, limit unnecessary steps and disclose key documents. Courts gain broad case‑management, disclosure,...

This Act sets the legal framework for administering a deceased person’s estate: who can be appointed, how property vests and is managed, how debts and claims are paid or contested, and how small or foreign estates are handled. It affects executors, administrators, surviving partners, beneficiaries, creditors, the registrar, courts and State Trustees —...

This Act imports the Commonwealth Australian Consumer Law into Victorian law, binds the Crown, applies extra‑territorially and gives the Director enforcement and conciliation powers. It also funnels consumer/trader disputes to VCAT, sets rules for staying or dismissing court proceedings, and creates a Small Claims Suspense Account for lodged payments. Its...

This Act applies the Legal Profession Uniform Law as Victoria law, repeals the earlier state act and supplies local rules on practising/registration certificates, costs disclosure and assessment, fidelity and public purpose funds, and external intervention in law practices (s1; ss8–182; ss122–146; ss326–346). It affects lawyers, law practices, foreign...

This Act sets out how prisons, transition centres and community corrections are run in Victoria: who holds legal custody, how prisoners are moved, released or supervised, and what powers officers, the Secretary and the Parole Board have. It also covers victim notification, management of damages awarded to prisoners via a quarantine fund, contracting for...

The Partnership Act 1958 sets Victoria’s legal framework for partnerships, creating registration based limited partnership and incorporated limited partnership vehicles that can give investors statutory limited liability if registration and conduct rules are met. It allocates ongoing compliance duties and enforcement costs primarily to general partners,...

The Act creates a statutory right to regular progress payments for people doing construction work or supplying related goods/services, plus a fast, time‑bound procedure (payment claims, payment schedules, adjudication) to recover them. It affects claimants, respondents, adjudicators, principals and administrative bodies by shifting cashflow risk toward...

The Transport Accident Act 1986 creates a no‑fault compensation scheme for people injured or killed in transport accidents in Victoria. It defines who qualifies, how pre‑accident weekly earnings and loss are calculated, what medical and support services are payable, and the administrative process for claiming. Compensation is paid from the Transport...

The Goods Act 1958 is Victoria’s default legal framework for sales, carriage and short‑term hiring of tangible goods. It fixes how contracts form, the parties’ implied promises, when ownership and risk pass, remedies for breach, and rules for mercantile agents, documents of title and sea‑carriage (including electronic forms); it also brings the CISG into...

This Act lets Victorian and certain federal/state courts transfer civil (non‑criminal) proceedings so disputes are heard in the most appropriate forum. It affects litigants, lawyers, courts and governments by changing where cases are heard, which substantive and procedural rules apply, and who bears costs; special federal matters are usually sent to...

This Act replaces Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act and re‑enacts an expanded anti‑discrimination framework: it defines protected attributes and discrimination, prohibits sexual harassment, imposes a duty to take reasonable and proportionate measures (including disability adjustments), and sets where discrimination is unlawful. It chiefly affects private and...

Sets out Victoria’s constitutional framework: establishment and succession of the Governor and deputies (s.6–6D), continuity of laws and courts, and detailed rules on Governor pensions and commutation to meet superannuation surcharge liabilities (ss.7–7J). It creates a parliamentary deadlock resolution and joint sitting process for disputed bills...

Victoria’s Gambling Regulation Act 2003 sets who may run gambling and how it’s regulated, aiming to ensure gambling is fair, safe and free of criminal influence while directing some proceeds to public causes. It affects casino and venue operators, bookmakers, lotteries, keno providers, gamblers and regulators, balancing jobs and tax revenue against the...