AGLC4 Rule 15.2.3: Legislation: Year

Give the year or span of years of the statute volume, then a comma. Add a session number only where that year had several sessions and the volume is divided by session with separate chapter numbering, and a supplement number where the Act appears only in a supplement to the revised statutes.

AGLC4 page 214

Formatting

  • The year follows the volume and jurisdiction code after a single space.
  • A session or supplement number goes in round brackets immediately after the year, separated from it by a space.
  • Session and supplement numbers are ordinals with superscript letters, as in 2nd Sess and 1st Supp, following rule 1.10.1.
  • Sess and Supp are capitalised and take no full stop.
  • The comma that normally follows the year moves to after the closing round bracket when a session or supplement is given.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 214
  1. 10
    Clean Air Act, SNB 1997, c C-5.2.
  2. 11
    Criminal Law Amendment Act, RSC 1985 (1st Supp), c 27.
  3. 12
    An Act to Amend the Essential Services Emergency Act 1966, SS 1970 (2nd Sess), c 1.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 214
  • ‘3rd Sess’
  • ‘2nd Supp’

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.