Legislation Revision and Publication Regulations 2002 (SA)

South Australia

Legislation Revision and Publication Regulations 2002

under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002

Contents

1            Short title

3            Interpretation

4            Definition of legislation

5            Alterations that may be made in revising legislation

6            Publication of legislation

Legislative history

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Legislation Revision and Publication Regulations 2002.

3—Interpretation

In these regulations—

Act means the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002.

4—Definition of legislation

For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of legislation in section 3 of the Act, the following are instruments of a prescribed kind:

(a)an environment protection policy made under Part 5 of the Environment Protection Act 1993 (other than a national environment protection measure that became an environment protection policy under section 28A(1) of the Act before that section was repealed);

(b)an aquaculture policy made under Part 4 of the Aquaculture Act 2001 on or after 1 January 2005;

(c)a rule made by the Governor under the Road Traffic Act 1961;

(d)a proclamation made by the Governor under an Act on or after 1 January 2003;

(e)a notice made by the Governor under an Act on or after 1 January 2003.

5—Alterations that may be made in revising legislation

Pursuant to section 7(1)(i) of the Act, in revising legislation under the Act, language indicating gender, or that could be taken to indicate gender, may be expressed in a different way so as to avoid referring to gender.

6—Publication of legislation

(1)For the purposes of section 8 of the Act, legislation may be published under the Act by publishing an electronic copy of the legislation from the SA legislation website.

(2)For the purposes of section 8(3) of the Act, an electronic copy of legislation downloaded from the SA legislation website or a print of that electronic copy will, for the purposes of the Act and any other Act, be taken to be published under the Act if the following conditions are satisfied:

(a)electronic publication of the legislation must have been authorised by the Commissioner;

(b)the following statement must appear at the foot of each page of the electronic copy of the legislation:

Published under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002.

(3)In this regulation—

SA legislation website means the website with the URL of or any other website established and maintained by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel for the purpose of providing public access to the legislation of South Australia.

Legislative history

Notes

•Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.

•Earlier versions of these regulations (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.

•For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or regulations and variations

New entries appear in bold.

Year	No	Reference	Commencement
2002	240	Gazette 19.12.2002 p4829	1.1.2003: r 2
2004	19	Gazette 22.4.2004 p1096	22.4.2004: r 2
2006	198	Gazette 17.8.2006 p2832	17.8.2006: r 2
2016	255	Gazette 3.11.2016 p4335	3.11.2016: r 2

Provisions varied

New entries appear in bold.

Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.

Provision	How varied	Commencement
r 2	omitted under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002	22.4.2004
r 4	substituted by 19/2004 r 4	22.4.2004
varied by 198/2006 r 4	17.8.2006
rr 5 and 6	inserted by 255/2016 r 4	3.11.2016

Historical versions

22.4.2004

17.8.2006