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.