Legislation Publication Act 1996 (Tas)

Legislation Publication Act 1996

An Act to establish a database as the source of the authorised version of legislation in force in this State, to provide for the production and distribution of authorised copies of legislation on the database, to give evidentiary status to those copies, to provide for the making of editorial changes to legislation and for the reprinting of legislation, to repeal the Acts Custody Act 1858 and the Acts Reprinting Act 1979 and to amend certain other Acts [Royal Assent 10 July 1996]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Legislation Publication Act 1996 .

2. Commencement This Act commences on a day to be proclaimed.

3. Interpretation In this Act – Act means an enactment of the Parliament of this State; current legislative drafting practice means the legislative drafting practice for the time being in use in Tasmania; database means the database referred to in section 5 ; law means – (a) an Act; and (b) a statutory rule; made includes enacted; minor error means – (a) a typographical error; or (b) a grammatical error; or (c) a spelling error; or (d) an error of punctuation; or (e) an error in cross-referencing to a provision of a law or other instrument; original Act means an Act on which the Royal Assent has been signified; original statutory rule means a statutory rule containing the signature or seal of the person or body that made the statutory rule; referential words means any of the words specified in section 4 occurring in conjunction with a number to designate a provision of a law; reprint includes consolidation; reprint change, in relation to an Act or statutory rule, means any change to that Act or statutory rule made under this Act or any other Act which authorised the reprint of Acts or statutory rules; State Archivist means the person appointed as State Archivist under section 7 of the Archives Act 1983 ; statutory rule has the same meaning as in the Rules Publication Act 1953 .