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Legislation Act 2019

Drafting and publishing of legislation - Correcting errors and making other editorial changes

84: Purpose of this subpart

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"Fixing mistakes and making legislation easier to use and understand"

The purpose of this part of the law is to help fix mistakes and make other small changes to legislation. This is so you can have legislation that is up to date. It also helps you find, use, and understand the legislation more easily.

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Part 3Drafting and publishing of legislation
Correcting errors and making other editorial changes

84Purpose of this subpart

  1. The purpose of this subpart is to enable errors to be corrected and other editorial changes to be made so as to—

  2. keep legislation up to date; and
    1. improve the ability of users to find, use, and understand that legislation.