AGLC4 Rule 3.4: Legislative Materials: Delegated Legislation

Regulations, rules, orders and similar instruments are cited in the same way as Acts. Besides the pinpoint abbreviations of rule 3.1.4, delegated legislation has its own abbreviations for orders, regulations, rules and their subdivisions.

AGLC4 page 75

Formatting

  • Title and year are italic, and the jurisdiction is roman in round brackets, exactly as for Acts.
  • Pinpoints use ord, reg, r, sub-reg and sub-r, with plurals ords, regs, rr, sub-regs and sub-rr, alongside the abbreviations in rule 3.1.4.
  • A subrule or subregulation follows the rule or regulation number in round brackets with no space.
  • Decimal rule numbers are given in full.
  • An order and a rule within it are both given where the rules are not numbered continuously, and a list may mix whole orders with an order and rule.
  • Multiple pinpoints follow rule 3.1.5, with en dash spans and commas between separate items.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 75
  1. 39
    Heritage Regulation 2006 (ACT) reg 5(1).
  2. 40
    Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 6.2(1), (3A)(a)–(b).
  3. 41
    Federal Court Rules 1979 (Cth) ords 3, 5–6, 7 r 4A.
  4. 42
    Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2015 (Vic) r 3.01.
  5. 43
    Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) regs 2.01–2.02.
  6. 44
    High Court Rules 2004 (Cth) r 42.02.2.

Additional pinpoint abbreviations for delegated legislation, singular and plural

Quoted from the Guide, page 75
DesignationAbbreviationPluralAbbreviation
OrderordOrdersords
RegulationregRegulationsregs
RulerRulesrr
Sub-regulationsub-regSub-regulationssub-regs
Sub-rulesub-rSub-rulessub-rr

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.