Reprints Act 1992 (Qld)

Reprints Act 1992

An Act relating to reprints of legislation and for other purposes related to legislation

Part 1    Preliminary

1   Short title

This Act may be cited as the Reprints Act 1992.

2   Object of Act

(1)The object of this Act is to facilitate the updating and ready availability of Queensland legislation.

(2)The object is to be achieved by modernising the law relating to reprints of Queensland legislation.

3   Definitions

The dictionary in schedule 1 defines particular words used in this Act.

Part 2    Preparation of reprints

4   Parliamentary counsel may prepare reprints

The parliamentary counsel may prepare a reprint of a law under this Act, including a law that has not been amended and a reprint in electronic form.

Part 3    Amendments must be included in reprints

5   Amendments

If a law has been amended by—

(a)the omission of provisions; or

(b)the insertion of provisions (whether or not in substitution for omitted provisions);

a reprint of the law must—

(c)show the law as amended by all amendments that commenced on or before the reprint date; and

(d)incorporate all necessary consequential amendments, whether of punctuation, numbering or another kind.

Example 1—

If the following provision were to be amended by the omission of paragraph (c), the bracketed punctuation mark would replace the bolded punctuation mark and the word ‘and’ at the end of paragraph (b) would be omitted—

‘5.A notice is to—

(a)be signed by the chairperson; and

(b)specify the time within which it is to be complied with; (.) and

(c)specify the place at which it is to be complied with.’.

Example 2—

If a section that is not divided into subsections is amended by the insertion of a subsection at the end, the existing provision is numbered as subsection (1).

Example 3—

If a section that is divided into subsections is amended by the insertion of another subsection that is given a new number (for example, a subsection (1A) to be inserted after subsection (1)), section 5(d) does not require the renumbering of subsections after the inserted subsection.

Example 4—

If a definition is added to a section consisting of 1 definition, the existing section heading ‘Definition’ would become ‘Definitions’.

Example 5—

If a provision heading is amended, a reference to the provision mentioning the provision heading may be amended to mention the amended provision heading.

6   Reference to amending law

A reprint of a law that shows the law as amended by amendments must include, in a suitable place, a reference to the law by which each amendment was made.

Part 4    Editorial changes may be included in reprints

7   Editorial changes

(1)In a reprint of a law, the text of the law may be given—

(a)using citations and references permitted by Division 2; and

(b)using references permitted by Division 3; and

(c)using words and references, and otherwise expressed as, permitted by Division 4; and

(d)making the…