Legislation Act 2019

Drafting and publishing of legislation - Drafting and publishing legislation - Key publishing responsibilities

69: PCO must publish all legislation

You could also call this:

"The government must make all new laws and rules available for everyone to see."

The PCO has to publish all the laws that are made. You can think of the PCO like a group that helps make sure all the laws are available for everyone to see. They must publish all the Bills that are introduced, which are like ideas for new laws, and all the Acts, which are the actual laws. They also have to publish all the secondary legislation they draft, which are like rules that help explain the laws.

The PCO must also make sure people know when new secondary legislation is made by publishing information about it in the Gazette. The Gazette is like a special newspaper that publishes official notices.

If the PCO publishes secondary legislation that they did not draft, they still have to follow the same rules as if they had drafted it. This means they have to publish the information required by regulations in the Gazette and follow the rules set out in section 71. When they do this, it is like they have already published or notified the legislation in the Gazette, so they do not have to do it again.

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Part 3Drafting and publishing of legislation
Drafting and publishing legislation: Key publishing responsibilities

69PCO must publish all legislation

  1. The PCO must publish—

  2. all introduced Bills (and those amendments to Bills that the Attorney-General directs); and
    1. all Acts; and
      1. all secondary legislation drafted by the PCO; and
        1. minimum legislative information for all secondary legislation drafted by the PCO.
          1. The PCO must also notify the making of that secondary legislation by publishing the information required by regulations in the Gazette.

          2. The PCO may also publish secondary legislation that was not drafted by the PCO as if it were drafted by the PCO. In that case,—

          3. subsections (1)(d) and (2) apply; and
            1. section 71 (how and when legislation must be published by PCO) applies; and
              1. any obligation under any other legislation for the secondary legislation to be published or notified in the Gazette is treated as satisfied.
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