AGLC4 Rule 15.2.5: Legislation: Pinpoint References

A pinpoint to a Canadian statute follows the chapter after a comma and uses the section abbreviations of the Australian legislation rules.

AGLC4 page 215

Formatting

  • A comma and a space separate the chapter from the pinpoint.
  • The pinpoint uses the abbreviations of rules 3.1.4 to 3.1.7, such as s for section, with no full stop.

Example

Quoted from the Guide, page 215
  1. 15
    Tobacco Act, SC 1997, c 13, s 58.

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.