Ambit of editorial amendments
116 Ambit of editorial amendments
An editorial amendment of a law is an amendment that—
corrects a typographical error; or
corrects or updates a reference to a law, position, entity, place or thing; or
goes only to a matter of spelling, punctuation, grammar or syntax or the use of conjunctives and disjunctives; or
changes the name of the law or a provision of the law; or
numbers or renumbers a provision of the law; or
changes the order of definitions or other provisions of the law; or
replaces a reference to a provision of a law with a different form of reference to the provision; or
changes the way of referring to or expressing a number, year, date, time, amount of money, penalty, quantity, measurement, or other matter, idea or concept; or
replaces a word indicating gender or that could be taken to indicate gender in accordance with current legislative drafting practice; or
replaces a reference to the Queen, the King or the Crown with a reference to the Sovereign or the Territory; or
omits—
the enacting words or the law-making words (including any signatures); or
a provision that consists only of a description of how the law is arranged into groups of provisions; or
a provision that has expired, the operation of which is exhausted or spent or that is otherwise obsolete or redundant; or
omits, inserts or changes a referential term; or
inserts, omits or changes a note; or
updates a reference to the heading to a provision; or
is consequential on any amendment made to the law by another law; or
is consequential on any other editorial amendment (whether made to that law or another law).
Examples—consequential amendments—par (o)
1 If an amendment adds 1 or more subsections to a section that is not already divided into subsections, the subsection number (1) may be inserted.
2 If an amendment omits subsection (1) from a section with 2 subsections, the subsection number (2) may be omitted.
3 If an amendment omits subsection (2) from a series of 4 subsections (subsections (1) to (4)), subsections (3) and (4) may be renumbered as subsections (2) and (3).
4 If an amendment adds a new subsection (3A) to a series of 5 subsections (subsections (1) to (5)), the new subsection and subsections (4) and (5) may be renumbered as subsections (4), (5), and (6).
5 If an amendment omits paragraph (b) from a series of 4 paragraphs (paragraphs (a) to (d)), paragraphs (c) and (d) may be renumbered as paragraphs (b) and (c).
6 If an amendment adds a new paragraph (aa) to a series of 3 paragraphs (paragraphs (a) to (c)), the paragraphs may be renumbered as paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d).
7 If an amendment makes a change mentioned in any of examples 1 to 6, a cross-reference in any law to any of the provisions that have been renumbered may be correspondingly renumbered.
8 If an amendment adds a paragraph as the last paragraph in a series of paragraphs that end in a full stop, the full stop may be changed to a semicolon and, if the series of paragraphs is joined by a conjunction (eg ‘and’), the conjunction may be added after the semicolon.
9 If an amendment omits a section example from a section that has 2 section examples, the number of the remaining example may be omitted.
10 If an amendment adds a subsection note to a subsection that already has a subsection note, the notes may be numbered.
In this section:
law includes a law of another jurisdiction.
law of another jurisdiction—see section 97 (1).
referential term means a term that identifies a provision as a provision, or part of a provision, of the Act, statutory instrument or provision in which it appears.
Examples
1 of this Act
2 of this section
3 hereof
4 said
This Act’s bill:Explanatory statementSecond reading speech
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