Legislation - Acts, Regulations, Bills and Hansard
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This webpage provides links to supplementary resources additional to those in the Legal Information Guide
CTH
See also Australian Law Online or LawLex - a gateway to legislation sites on the internet, with a useful subject index to principal legislation.
Australian Law Reform Commission
BillsNet - Full text Bills, EMs and Bills Digests.
Commonwealth Gazettes - Government Notices from no.GN. 26 (3/7/2002);
- Special Gazettes from no. S. 226 (1/7/2002);
- Periodic Gazettes from no. P. 8 (1/7/2002) / ASIC Gazette - From 1 July
Hansard - From the Parliament of Australia site.
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
ACT
ACT Legislation Register - provides access to ACT legislation in both authorised and unauthorised formats. It includes Acts, subordinate laws, disallowable instruments, notifiable instruments, bills, commencement notices and approved forms.
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
Hansard - Parliamentary Debates
NSW
NSW Legislation Consolidated - NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Includes NSW Legislation in force, Historical versions of legislation including repealed legislation and an archival collection of NSW legislation as made from 1990
NSW Parliament Bills List - Most in full text.
NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office Provides information about the PCO and NSW legislation, Bills and related publications.
Hansard - Parliamentary Debates
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
NT
Northern Territory Attorney-General's Department
Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission
Register of Bills - full text of bills and 2nd reading speeches available back to 2001. please note that from May 2005 NT Bills have Explanatory Memoranda's - these can be found at the end of the Bill.
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation
QLD
Queensland Office of the Parliamentary Counsel - includes Bills (1992+), Reprints (1992+), Acts as passed (1991+), Subordinate legislation as made (1991+)
Local Laws Database - Qld Department of Local Government and Planning. Search approxiamtely 3000 local laws and 1300 subordinate local laws from over 130 Queensland Councils by council, subject, law type, date and keyword. Note: The electronic versions of local laws on this site are not recognised as the official or authorised version.
Gazette - Last 4 editions only.
Hansard - Parliamentary Debates
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation
SA
SA Legislation Consolidated - Parliament, South Australia. Provides fulltext access to Acts, Regulations and Rules from 2003+, and Bills from 2005+
South Australian Bills - available from 2002
SA Court Rules - Courts Administration Authority. Most Rules now available.
South Australian Government Gazette - Weekly update on SA legislative activity.
SA Parliament includes notice papers and Hansard
Subject index to South Australian Legislation - Compiled by the Australian Law Librarians' Group (SA Division). Principal public Acts of South Australia only.
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
TAS
Tasmanian Government
Hansard - Sydney Uni's Hansard links
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
VIC
VIC Legislation Consolidated this site is maintained by the Victorian Government. It is not particularly easy to search, and does not provide contents pages.
Current Victorian Bills before Parliament - including EMs
Old Victorian Bills before Parliament - 1996 onwards
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
Hansard
Gazette
Commencement Book
WA
WA Acts and Regulations
Western Australian Bills
Western Australian Government Gazette
Hansard
Lawlex - All Jurisdictions. Includes Subject index to principal Australian Legislation.
International
Westlaw for access to EU, UK, US, Canada and Hong Kong
AustLII's World Legislation Links or LawLink - Law by Country
Global (WorldLII)
Australasia (AustLII)
UK & Ireland (BAILII)
Canada (CanLII)
Hong Kong (HKLII)
Pacific Islands (PacLII)
Southern Africa (SAFLII)
USA (LII(Cornell))
Droit Francophone
Acts of the UK Parliament offers the full text of all new Public General Acts since 1988, and the full text of all new Local Acts since 1991. It also contains Explanatory 00notes to public acts, statutory instruments and draft statutory instruments.
The United Kingdom Parliament provides bills before parliament with explanatory notes and amendments. It also has Hansard from the House of Commons dating back to 1988 and the House of Lords from 1996.
United States
Thomas: U.S. Congress on the Internet makes Federal U.S. legislative information freely available on the Internet. Databases offered by THOMAS include Bill Summary & Status, Bill Text, Public Laws by Law Number, and issues of the Congressional Record.
United Nations site provides multilingual access to information about U.N. bodies, events and initiatives, publications and databases.
