AGLC4 Rule 3.1.7: Individual Parts of Legislative Materials

A portion of an Act, delegated instrument or Bill may be given its own italic short title, placed after the pinpoint to that portion. Only one short title may be introduced in a single citation. Later pinpoints after that short title refer to provisions inside the portion, and the short title should plainly describe the portion rather than the whole Act.

AGLC4 page 73

Formatting

  • The short title follows the pinpoint to the portion after one space.
  • It is enclosed in single quotation marks inside round brackets, and its words are italic.
  • Only one short title is introduced in any one citation.
  • In later references the italic short title is followed by the footnote cross reference in brackets and then the pinpoint.
  • A pinpoint after the short title refers to a provision within the portion, not within the Act as a whole.
  • The short title chosen should name the portion; a name that could be read as the whole Act is avoided.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 73
  1. 29
    Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) sch 1 (‘Criminal Code’).
  2. 30
    Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) sch 2 (‘Australian Consumer Law’).
  3. 31
    Criminal Code (n 66) s 80.2(5).
  4. 32
    Australian Consumer Law (n 67) s 3.

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 73
  • ‘Competition and Consumer Act’ or ‘Consumer Act’
    as a short title for the schedule these could be mistaken for the whole Act

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 73
  • ‘Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) sch pt 1 (‘Competition Code’)’
  • ‘Competition Code s 45’
  • ‘Australian Consumer Law’
  • ‘ACL’

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.