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LEGISLATION ACT 2003 - SECT 44

Legislative instruments that are not subject to disallowance

  (1)   Section   42 does not apply in relation to a legislative instrument, or a provision of a legislative instrument if the enabling legislation for the instrument (not being the Corporations Act 2001 ):

  (a)   facilitates the establishment or operation of an intergovernmental body or scheme involving the Commonwealth and one or more States or Territories ; and

  (b)   authorises the instrument to be made by the body or for the purposes of the body or scheme;

unless the instrument is a regulation, or the enabling legislation or some other Act has the effect that the instrument is disallowable.

  (2)   Section   42 does not apply in relation to a legislative instrument, or a provision of a legislative instrument, if:

  (a)   an Act declares, or has the effect, that section   42 does not apply in relation to the instrument or provision; or

  (b)   the legislative instrument is prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph.

  (3)   Prescribing a kind of instrument by regulation for the purposes of paragraph   ( 2)(b) does not imply that every instrument of that kind is a legislative instrument.


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