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Legislation Act 2019

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

72: How and when electronic versions of legislation must be available on legislation website

You could also call this:

"Accessing laws online: when and how you can view them for free"

The PCO must make sure that you can access legislation on the legislation website at all times. You must be able to get to it or download it for free. This includes official electronic versions of legislation published under section 78.

The PCO must also make sure it does this in a way that meets the minimum requirements set by regulations made under this Act. These regulations say how the PCO must make legislation available on the website. You can find more information about this by looking at the regulations.

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Drafting and publishing legislation: Key publishing responsibilities

72How and when electronic versions of legislation must be available on legislation website

  1. The PCO must ensure that,—

  2. as far as practicable, legislation published by the PCO under this Act (including official electronic versions of legislation published under section 78) is at all times able to be accessed at, or downloaded from, the legislation website free of charge; and
    1. it meets any minimum requirements set by the regulations made under this Act for how that must be done.

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      • 2012 No 119 s 9