Legislation Publication Act 1996

If a law has a citation that includes a comma before or after a year in the citation, the citation or a reference to the law may be given omitting the comma.

If a law has a citation that begins and ends with inverted commas, the citation or a reference to the law may be given omitting the inverted commas.

If a law has a citation that begins with the word "The", the citation or a reference to the law may be given omitting the word.

If an Act has a citation that does not include the word "Act", the citation or a reference to the Act may be given including the word "Act" and any necessary consequential amendments may be made to the citation or reference.

If a law has a citation that does not include a year, the citation or a reference to the law may be given including the year in which the law was made.

In a provision of a law, a reference to another law may be given omitting from the reference any words occurring after the first year.

If a law does not have a citation, it may be given a citation that is consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

If a law has a citation that is inconsistent with current legislative drafting practice in a way that is not mentioned in subsections (1) to (6), the citation may be given in a way that is consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

If there is a reference to a law's citation and since the reference was made the citation has been amended by another law or under subsections (1) to (8), the reference may be given using the citation as amended.

In this section,law includes a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory.