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Creating a profile
Step 1. Subjects of Interest

• new legislation (new Principal Bills or Regulations) and
• amendments (which are made to existing legislation and are also known as "Amending" legislation).

Profile building is a three step process. You need to:

1. select the Subjects of Interest to you;
2. add specific Legislation that you want to track and,
3. confirm your selections (or changes).

It is possible to select one or more jurisdictions to help narrow your selections, together with one or more subject categories, and as many specific acts or regulations as you want for your Profile.

You are able to modify your Profile at any time and you may in fact find it necessary to do this if you are receiving too many Alerts that don't appear to be relevant to you.

As described above, Lawlex indexes all legislation into subject categories to help you search for legislation and so that we can determine which Alerts you should receive for new principal Acts or Regulations. To avoid getting email alerts for a large number of legislative developments which may not be relevant to you, make sure your selection of subject categories is as specific as you can make it.

The colour tabs at the top of this screen indicate where you are in the Profile building process. By being more specific, you will ensure the alerts you receive are more relevant to your interests.

Specify Jurisdictions that interest you

Lawlex allows you to select the jurisdictions from which you want to receive Alerts. You may or may not be interested in legislative developments across all Australian States or Territories. Use the Jurisdiction selection process to refine your search.

Step 2. Select the specific legislation that you wish to monitor

After selecting NEXT, the Profile Set Up Wizard takes you to the next tab where you select Acts or Regulations you wish to monitor. Use the + key to open the categories.

The Wizard defaults to a subject category view, but you can change this to see an Alphabetical List of legislation if you prefer.

Modifying your Profile through your Alerts

When you receive an email alert for a new piece of legislation (a "Principal title"), you may add this to your Alert Profile by clicking the Add this title to your profile link located at the bottom of the Alert summary. If you do not click on this link, you will receive no further information of changes to this Act or Regulation.

By clicking on the "Add this title to my proflie" link, the title is added to your Profile and you will receive updates about its progress (assent and proclamation) and any amendments that are made to it at a later date.

Similarly, when you receive an Alert about an amendment to a title, you can also remove that title from your Profile.

By clicking on the "remove the [Legislation Name] from my profile" link, you will receive no further Alerts about changes to the Controlled Substances (Poisons) Regulations 1996 No. 4 (SA).

If you already have a Profile, you will note that when you click on My Profile, the system recognises this fact and will display your selections when you click
on the My Profile > My Legislative Alerts tab.

If you find you are getting too many Alerts, the easiest way to restrict the number of emails you receive is to make your new legislation subject category selections as narrow as possible.

For example, by selecting Privacy and Consumer Credit instead of the whole Commercial and Corporate Law category, you will significantly reduce the number of alerts you receive (if that is appropriate of course!)