Bill
Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-09-10. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-06-25
- second reading — 2015-06-25
- second reading — 2015-08-18
- second reading — 2015-08-18
- third reading — 2015-08-18
- introduced — 2015-08-19
- second reading — 2015-08-19
- second reading — 2015-08-19
- second reading — 2015-08-19
- third reading — 2015-08-19
- passed — 2015-08-19
- royal assent — 2015-09-10
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-06-25.
This bill would update many Commonwealth laws to support the renaming of the Legislative Instruments Act to the Legislation Act and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments to the Federal Register of Legislation.
It would remove sunsetting and disallowance exemptions from some enabling Acts, preserve their legal effect in the Legislation Act or the Legislative Instruments Regulation 2004, and clarify that state and territory court rules are not legislative instruments.
The bill would also amend the Family Law Act 1975 to remove an inconsistency in how its rules are treated under the Legislative Instruments Act, and make minor technical corrections to the Legislation Act.
- Update references to the Legislative Instruments Act to the Legislation Act and to the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments to the Federal Register of Legislation.
- Remove certain sunsetting and disallowance exemptions for legislative instruments from enabling Acts and preserve their legal effect elsewhere.
- Clarify that state and territory court rules are not legislative instruments under the Legislation Act.
- Amend the Family Law Act 1975 to remove an inconsistency in how its court rules are treated.
- Make minor technical corrections to the Legislation Act and repeal spent provisions.
- Clarify that section 14 of the Legislation Act does not apply to forms.
Commonwealth Acts, state and territory court rules, and the Family Law Act 1975 are affected.
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