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LEGISLATION (REPUBLICATION) ACT 1996 (NO. 51 OF 1996) - SECT 15

Ambit

15. (1) For the purposes of this Act, an editorial amendment in relation to a law is an amendment that—

        (a)     corrects a typographical error;

        (b)     corrects a reference to—

              (i)     any law or a provision of any law; or

              (ii)     a body, office, person, place or thing;

        (c)     goes only to a matter of spelling, punctuation, grammar or syntax;

    (d)     alters the citation of the law;

        (e)     renumbers or redesignates a provision of the law;

        (f)     alters the sequence of definitions or provisions of the law;

        (g)     replaces a reference to a provision of any law with a shorter form of reference to that provision;

        (h)     replaces a reference to any law or a provision of any law for which another law or provision has been substituted with a reference to the substituted law or provision;

        (j)     alters the manner of referring to a number, year, date, time, sum of money, quantity, measurement, or other matter, idea or concept;

        (k)     replaces a reference to a body, office, person, place or thing the name of which has been altered with a reference by the new name;

        (m)     replaces a word indicating gender or that could be taken to indicate gender in accordance with current legislative drafting practice;

        (n)     replaces a reference to Her Majesty the Queen or to His Majesty the King with a reference to the Sovereign or the Crown;

        (o)     omits—

              (i)     the enacting formula or the law-making formula (including any signatures);

              (ii)     a provision that consists only of a description of the manner in which the law is arranged into Parts, Divisions and smaller units;

              (iii)     any referential expression; or

              (iv)     a provision that has expired, the operation of which is exhausted or spent or that is otherwise obsolete or redundant; or

        (p)     is consequential on any other editorial amendment.

(2) In subsection (1), a reference to any law is to be taken to include a reference to a law of the Commonwealth, a State, another Territory or another country.



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