AGLC4 Rule 25.3.8: Legislative History: Amendments, Repeals and Insertions

Where a session law inserts, repeals or amends a code provision or another session law, that relationship may be shown using the legislative history phrases of rule 3.8.

AGLC4 page 284

Formatting

  • The connecting phrase (inserting, as amended by, repealed by) is roman and lower case and is preceded by a comma.
  • Each instrument keeps its own citation format: an italic title for a session law and a roman code citation for a code provision.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 284
  1. 73
    Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, Pub L No 107-204, § 201, 116 Stat 745, 771 (2002), inserting 15 USC § 78j-1(g) (2006).
  2. 74
    42 USC § 2473(c)(2)(A), as amended by NASA Flexibility Act of 2004, Pub L 108-201, § 2(a), 118 Stat 461, 461.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 284
  • inserting
  • as amended by

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.