The Succession Act 2006 sets the rules for wills, intestacy and family‑provision claims, lets courts authorise or rectify wills for minors and those lacking capacity, and enables courts to treat certain transfers as part of an estate ("notional estate") so they can be reached by orders. It affects deceased estates, personal representatives, surviving...

This Act updates how wills are made, changed, revoked and administered, giving the Supreme Court supervisory and discretionary powers to validate non‑standard instruments, authorise wills for minors or incapacitated people, and rectify mistakes. It affects testators, witnesses, executors/administrators, beneficiaries, creditors and anyone holding estate...

This Act implements the merger: on the succession day the Commonwealth Bank becomes the legal successor to the State Bank of Victoria — all State Bank property, rights and liabilities vest in CBA, the State Bank is dissolved, staff transfer with continuity, and specified government guarantees, payments and appropriations are preserved or dealt with. The...

This Act consolidates South Australian law on wills, probate, administration, intestacy and family provision and repeals earlier Acts. It fixes formal requirements for wills (including international wills), creates a Registrar deposit and access regime for wills, clarifies intestacy shares with a preferential legacy, and provides small‑estate and Public...

This regulation sets the fee for depositing a will at 1.37 fee units (s 4) and prescribes how a fee unit is calculated and indexed annually to the Sydney CPI, with rounding and a rule preventing reductions (Schedule 1 cl 2–3). It applies to people lodging wills (who pay the fee) and requires the Department Secretary to publish updated fee‑unit amounts after...

These regulations set the practical rules administrators must follow under the Succession Act 2023. They allow certain estate administration fees to be paid from the estate, prescribe how interest on estate monies and unpaid legacies is calculated, fix required content and timelines for spouse/domestic partner election and dispute notices, and identify a...

Mechanically, the Act removes male preference primogeniture for persons born after 28 October 2011, removes the disqualification for marrying a Roman Catholic, repeals the Royal Marriages Act 1772 (so far as it forms part of State law), and updates historic statutes and cross references so the Sovereign of Australia remains the same person as the Sovereign...

This Act changes who may succeed to the Crown in Western Australia: succession is gender‑neutral for people born after 28 October 2011; marrying a Roman Catholic no longer disqualifies a person; the Royal Marriages Act 1772 is repealed and some previously void marriages are validated; and the Parliament requests the Commonwealth to enact corresponding...

This Act changes who can inherit the Australian Crown by removing male preference for those born after 28 October 2011 and by ending disqualification for marrying a Roman Catholic. It brings Australia’s succession rules into line with specified United Kingdom changes, repeals the Royal Marriages Act 1772 in Australian law and validates certain marriages...

This Act asks the Commonwealth Parliament to change succession rules so people born after 28 October 2011 are not disadvantaged by gender, and so marrying a Roman Catholic no longer disqualifies someone from the Crown. It requests repeal of the Royal Marriages Act 1772 (with limited validation of some previously void marriages) and updates references to the...

This Act asks the Commonwealth Parliament to pass a law (set out in Schedule 1) so Australian rules on royal succession change in step with recent UK changes, removing gender and marriage based differences so that the Sovereign of Australia remains the same person as the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It leaves detailed enactment and timing to the...

This Act asks the Commonwealth Parliament to make Australian law on royal succession match specified United Kingdom changes. Mechanically it would end male preference for those born after 28 October 2011; remove disqualification for marrying a Roman Catholic; adopt certain UK marriage related disqualifications; repeal the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and...

This Act asks the Commonwealth Parliament to pass a uniform law changing who can inherit the Crown so that succession no longer favours males and marrying a Roman Catholic no longer disqualifies a person. It also seeks repeal of the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and validation of some marriages previously voided. The change is framed to keep the Sovereign of...

This Act fixes time limits for most civil claims and arbitrations in New South Wales: when claims accrue or are discoverable, what pauses or restarts limitation clocks, and a 30‑year ultimate bar. It sets standard periods (short defamation, layered personal‑injury rules with a 12‑year long stop), preserves equitable doctrines, and lets courts narrowly...

The Family Law Act 1975 is Australia’s main law for ending marriages and de facto relationships and for resolving arrangements for children. It sets the legal framework for divorce, parenting orders, property and financial settlements, and includes a broad definition of family violence and requirements to try mediation before court. It affects separating...

The Industrial Relations Act 1996 sets the rules for workplaces in New South Wales: it establishes awards and enterprise agreements, requires minimum fairness standards, and provides a system of conciliation and arbitration to resolve workplace disputes. It covers core employment rights (leave, protections against unfair dismissal, discrimination, bullying...

The Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 is Australia’s principal income tax rulebook: it sets how taxable income is determined, how tax is calculated and paid, and the basic compliance framework. It affects anyone who earns income in Australia — individuals, companies, partnerships and trusts — and matters because it defines liabilities, payment timing,...

The Supreme Court Rules 1970 prescribe the procedural mechanics and mandatory forms for litigation in the NSW Supreme Court—filing, service, evidence, seals and enforcement (including subpoenas, corporate production and coercive penalties). They affect litigants, lawyers, court officers, corporations, liquidators, executors and criminal justice actors. By...

This Act brings the national Legal Profession Uniform Law into force in NSW and adapts it with local institutional, procedural and financial rules. It designates regulators and tribunals, sets how trust money, fidelity and indemnity funds are handled and transferred, imposes costs‑assessment and reporting obligations on practitioners, and validates certain...

The Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 is the principal workers’‑compensation law for Commonwealth employees (and employees of licensed self‑insuring corporations), plus dependants. It provides weekly payments, medical treatment, rehabilitation, lump sums for permanent impairment, non‑economic loss, death benefits and care services. Special...

This law sets the legal framework for administering deceased persons’ estates in NSW: who may obtain probate or letters of administration, how estate property vests and may be sold or mortgaged, required notices, bonds, filings and safeguards, and the Court’s supervisory powers. It affects executors, administrators, beneficiaries, creditors, the NSW Trustee...

The Act establishes and organises the NSW Police Force, giving the Commissioner broad powers over staffing, contracts, discipline and operational decisions while framing appointment and integrity checks for senior executives. It creates a formal misconduct regime with an MMIS, mandatory LECC notifications, and review paths, and authorises testing of...

The Act consolidates and updates Supreme Court law, setting day‑to‑day procedures, creating and defining court offices (notably Associate Judges), and establishing financial and administrative rules for court‑held funds, fees, and pensions. It affects litigants (fees, security, judgment interest), court officers (roles, pensions, discretion), and the...

This law creates a standalone military justice system for defence members and certain defence civilians, defining service offences, investigatory safeguards, trial routes (summary authorities, magistrates, courts‑martial) and punishments. It introduces a fast‑track infringement scheme for junior ranks to resolve minor matters and centralises prosecutorial...

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 Act fixes statutory time limits for bringing civil claims and arbitrations, sets rules for when rights accrue, and creates limited exceptions and court powers to extend or restart time so long dormant claims can sometimes proceed. It matters to claimants (who must act promptly or meet exceptions), defendants and successors (who gain certainty and...

The instrument is a District Court procedural rulebook that governs registry operations, filing and service, Judicial Registrar delegation, criminal‑procedure steps (including electronic warranting), and tightly regulates media recording of judgment remarks. It affects litigants and lawyers, registrars and Judicial Registrars, news organisations and...

This law creates Australia’s administrative child support system: an official process to calculate and collect financial support from a non resident parent, prioritising children’s needs and avoiding routine court action. It affects separated or never cohabiting parents (including de facto and same‑sex couples), non‑parent carers raising children, and...

The Act requires individuals, corporations and employee agents in real estate, stock & station and strata management to hold licences or registration, imposes detailed trust‑account rules, tightly regulates auction bidding and marketing disclosures, and creates a Compensation Fund for losses from failures to account. It centralises decision‑making with the...

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...