Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

LEGISLATION ACT 2003 - SECT 5

  (1)   In this Act, amend includes:

  (a)   for an Act or instrument--repeal, omit, insert, substitute, renumber or relocate a provision of the Act or instrument; and

  (b)   for a provision of an Act or instrument--any of the following:

  (i)   repeal or omit the provision (or a part of it);

  (ii)   substitute another provision for the provision (or a part of it);

  (iii)   insert another provision into the provision (or a part of it);

  (iv)   renumber the provision (or a part of it);

  (v)   relocate the provision (or a part of it); and

  (c)   for an Act or instrument, or a provision of an Act or instrument--amend by implication; and

  (d)   for an Act or instrument, or a provision of an Act or instrument--change its text in any other way.

Note 1:   Repeal , in relation to a provision of an instrument, includes revoke or rescind the provision (see the definition of repeal in section   4).

Note 2:   For the purposes of Part   2 of Chapter   2 (registration of compilations), an Act or instrument is amended by an Act or instrument, or a provision of an Act or instrument, when the amending Act or provision commences (see subsection   15Q(3)).

  (2)   In this Act, modify an Act or instrument means modify the operation of the Act or instrument without amending its text.