AGLC4 Rule 3.2: Bills

Bills take the same form as Acts, except that neither the title nor the year is italicised. Clause and sub-clause are the usual pinpoint designations. Where Bills share a name and the short title carries a number, that number is kept in brackets.

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Formatting

  • The title and the year of a Bill are roman.
  • The order is title, year, jurisdiction abbreviation in round brackets, then pinpoint, as for Acts.
  • Pinpoints normally use cl and sub-cl, with plurals cls and sub-cls; schedule items use sch and item.
  • A number in the short title is kept as No, a space and the numeral in round brackets, placed before the year.
  • Jurisdiction abbreviations are those of rule 3.1.3.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 74
  1. 33
    Corporations Amendment (Crowd-Sourced Funding) Bill 2015 (Cth).
  2. 34
    Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 (Cth) cl 83.
  3. 35
    Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009 (Cth) sch 1 item 9.
  4. 36
    Law and Justice Amendment Bill (No 2) 1995 (Cth).

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.