AGLC4 Rule 3.9.2: Orders and Rulings of Government Instrumentalities and Officers (ASIC Class Orders, Taxation Rulings, etc)

Orders and rulings of government bodies and officers that are neither delegated legislation nor published in a gazette are cited by issuer, instrument title, a bracket holding the document number and the date the instrument takes effect, then a pinpoint. An officer is named by title only, departments and officers carry their jurisdiction, and a document number appears only if the instrument shows one.

AGLC4 page 79

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 79
Instrumentality/Officer, Instrument Title (Document Number, Full Date) Pinpoint.

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

Formatting

  • The issuing instrumentality or officer comes first, roman, followed by a comma.
  • An officer is identified by official title only, never by personal name.
  • Where a department or an officer issued the instrument, the jurisdiction abbreviation from rule 3.1.3 follows the name in round brackets.
  • The instrument title is italic.
  • A round bracket follows the title after a space and holds the document number, a comma and the full date.
  • The document number is given only if printed on the instrument, keeping its abbreviations but dropping full stops under rule 1.6.1.
  • Without a document number the bracket holds the full date alone.
  • The date is the one from which the instrument takes effect, written day, month in full, year.
  • The pinpoint follows the closing bracket after a space; paragraph pinpoints are in square brackets.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 79
  1. 72
    Australian Taxation Office, Income Tax: Carrying on a Business as a Professional Artist (TR 2005/1, 12 January 2005).
  2. 73
    Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ASIC Class Order — Credit Rating Agencies (CO 05/1230, 31 December 2005) [4].
  3. 74
    Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (Cth), Direction No 65: Visa Refusal and Cancellation under s501 and Revocation of a Mandatory Cancellation of a Visa under s501CA (22 December 2014).

See also

Check your footnotes against these rules

Paste your paper into the free AGLC4 checker and each footnote is graded against the Guide, with the rule it breaks. To write a citation from scratch, use the AGLC4 citation generator.

AGLC4 citation checker AGLC4 citation generator

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.