Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Object of this Act
4. Terms used
5. Act binds Crown
6. Application of this Act
7. Relationship with other Acts
PART 2 -- Publication of legislation
Division 1 -- Publication responsibilities
8. WA legislation website
9. Purpose of WA legislation website
10. What is published on WA legislation website
11. Versions showing effect of uncommenced amendment or modification or law as modified
12. When law published on WA legislation website
13. WA legislation website unavailable
14. Technical or other requirements for publication on WA legislation website
Division 2 -- Official versions
15. Official electronic versions
16. Official hard copy versions
Division 3 -- Evidentiary matters
17. Legal status of official versions
18. Evidence of official versions
19. Evidence of day of publication of laws
20. Evidence of day of Royal Assent
21. Judicial notice
Division 4 -- Publication or notification on WA legislation website instead of Gazette
22. Requirement or authority to publish or notify in Gazette
PART 3 -- Editorial changes to legislation
Division 1 -- Power to make editorial changes
23. Parliamentary Counsel authorised to make editorial changes
24. Delegation
Division 2 -- Editorial changes
25. Updating references to law of WA or other jurisdictions
26. Things that have been changed or replaced
27. Deemed amendments
28. References to provision of law
29. Clerk’s amendment to Act
30. Gender
31. Numbers, dates, times, quantities, measurements and similar matters
32. Conjunctives and disjunctives
33. Definitions and items
34. Minor errors and inconsistencies
35. Obsolete or redundant provisions
36. Incorporation of certain provisions contained in amending law
37. Numbering and renumbering
38. Format and printing style changes
39. Consequential changes
Division 3 -- Other matters
40. Effect of editorial changes
41. Recording of editorial changes
42. Annual report to include summary of editorial changes
PART 4 -- Miscellaneous
43. Regulations
44. Review of Act
PART 5 -- Repeal of Reprints Act 1984
45. Reprints Act 1984 repealed
46. Status of reprints under repealed Act
PART 6 -- Other Acts amended
Division 1 -- Interpretation Act 1984 amended
47. Act amended
48. Section 5 amended
49. Section 10 amended
50. Section 19 amended
51. Section 23 amended
52. Section 24 deleted
53. Section 26 amended
54. Section 41 amended
55. Section 42 amended
Division 2 -- Evidence Act 1906 amended
56. Act amended
57. Section 3 amended
58. Section 53 amended
59. Section 57 amended
60. Section 58 amended
61. Section 69A amended
62. Section 74 amended
63. Section 75 amended
64. Section 78 amended
Defined terms
An Act —
• to
provide for public access to Western Australian legislation;
and
• to provide for the official status of published versions
of Western Australian legislation; and
• to provide for Western
Australian legislation to be kept in an up-to-date form and consistent with
current drafting practice; and
• to repeal the Reprints
Act 1984; and
• for related purposes.