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Lawlex is updated daily. We have established fast and reliable channels of communication in each jurisdiction so that we are aware of new legislative changes within 24 hours of them being made.

This includes new Bills and progress of Bills, new statutory rules, new Acts, gazette notices and other related information.

Lawlex provides users with a clear distinction in relation to the currency of information. When selecting a legislation title, Lawlex states the currency date of the legislation and then provides details of subsequent amendments to the legislation. We take the currency date from the compilation information in the government publication. If the government publication does not provide a date, we take the date on which the last consolidated amendment came into force. If the government publication has never been amended, we take the assent date (for Acts), the date of making (for Regulations) or the date of registration in the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (for Commonwealth Regulations).

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The Lawlex Subject Index contains all current statutes enacted by Australian parliaments (with some exceptions), as well as most subordinate legislation currently in force in each jurisdiction. Certain types of legislation are not however included in the subject index. These are:

Amending Acts, including Repeal Acts;
Appropriation or Supply Acts;
Private Acts from New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia (the other jurisdictions do not have private Acts)*
Public Special Acts from New South Wales* ;
Imperial Acts (however Adopted Imperial Acts from Western Australia are included in the index);
Validation of Proclamation Acts;
Acts and Regulations which postpone repeals.

*See below for more information.

Public and Private Acts

The following jurisdictions do not distinguish between public Acts and private Acts:

Australian Capital Territory
Commonwealth
Northern Territory

The following jurisdictions do distinguish between public Acts and private Acts, and thus the private Acts from those jurisdictions are not included
in the subject index:

New South Wales
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Public Special Acts (NSW only)

New South Wales classifies Acts as:

  • Private Acts; and
  • Public Acts, which are then divided into public general Acts, and public special Acts.
  • Public general Acts are included in the subject index (unless amending, imperial etc.) and private Acts are excluded. Public special Acts generally are not included in the subject index.

    However, some public special Acts are included because they are:
  • of a general nature;
  • part of a package of legislation; or
  • significant in some respect (e.g. because of the subject matter).

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