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The object of this Act is to provide a comprehensive regime for the management of Commonwealth legislative instruments by:

(a) establishing the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments as a repository of Commonwealth legislative instruments, explanatory statements and compilations; and
(b) encouraging rule-makers to undertake appropriate consultation before making legislative instruments; and
(c) encouraging high standards in the drafting of legislative instruments to promote their legal effectiveness, their clarity and their intelligibility to anticipated users; and
(d) improving public access to legislative instruments; and
(e) establishing improved mechanisms for Parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments; and
(f) establishing mechanisms to ensure that legislative instruments are periodically reviewed and, if they no longer have a continuing purpose, repealed.