AGLC4 Rule 26.3: Other Foreign Domestic Materials: Legislative Materials

Foreign legislation from common law systems, including delegated legislation, follows chapter 3 as closely as possible, adapted to local features such as chapter numbers without years. Other foreign legislation gives the italic title, the jurisdiction in full in round brackets, any other information, and the pinpoint. Other information may include the promulgating body (other than a parliament), the law's number, the full date of enactment or commencement, and an official publication reference, but nothing already in the title. Foreign codes rarely need other information but it may be added, for example to fix the law's state at a date.

AGLC4 page 294

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 294
Title of Foreign Law (Jurisdiction) Other Information, Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • The title is italic, unless it is in a language that does not italicise, in which case that language's conventional equivalent (if any) is used.
  • A translated title follows the original title in square brackets, roman.
  • The jurisdiction is written in full, never abbreviated, in round brackets after the title.
  • Other information follows after a space, its elements separated by commas.
  • A comma precedes the pinpoint when other information is present; without other information the pinpoint follows the jurisdiction bracket after a space.
  • A published translation follows the whole citation in square brackets under rule 26.1.2.
  • A URL may follow the first citation.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 294
  1. 14
    Passports Act 1982 (Papua New Guinea).
  2. 15
    Sexual Offences Act 2006 (Kenya) ss 3, 5(1)(a)(i).
  3. 16
    Penal Code (Kiribati) ch 67 s 161.
  4. 17
    Änderung der Lebensmittelkennzeichnungsverordnung 1993 [Amendment of the Grocery Labelling Regulation 1993] (Austria) 9 January 2008, BGBl II, 8/2008.
  5. 18
    Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 1 Tahun 1974 Tentang Perkawinan [Law No 1 of 1974 on Marriage] (Indonesia) art 2(1).
  6. 19
    Aliens Act (Sweden) No 2005:716, ch 8 s 12 para 3 [tr Government Offices of Sweden, ‘Aliens Act (2005:716)’, Government Offices of Sweden (Web Document, 2005) <https://www.government.se/government-policy/migration-and-asylum/aliens-act/>, archived at <https://perma.cc/FP7E-5T3H>].
  7. 20
    Criminal Code (Germany) s 80 [tr Michael Bohlander, Übersetzung des Strafgesetzbuches (Juris, 2016) 45].

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 294
  • Act No 3 of 1982

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.