AGLC4 Rule 7.1.2: Parliamentary Papers, Committee Reports, Bills Digests and Alert Digests

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

• The author position holds the committee name, a comma and space, then the legislature (for example Parliament of Victoria), then the comma that precedes the title; both parts are roman.
• The chamber (for example Senate) is placed at the start of the committee name when the committee belongs to one chamber only and the name does not already say so.
• A department author may carry its jurisdiction abbreviation in round brackets after its name, for example (Cth).
• For digests the document type becomes Digest and the number reads No, the number, the word of, and the year, all roman.
• A financial or parliamentary year span in a digest number is shortened as rule 1.11.4 directs and joined by an unspaced dash.
• Where the title already carries the number and year (for example a title such as Tenth Report of 2016), no separate number is given and the bracket gives only the document type and date.
• An Act or Bill name that appears within a report title is simply part of the italic title and gets no separate treatment.
• A pinpoint may combine a page range and paragraph numbers in square brackets, separated by a space.

1. 5
   Environment and Natural Resources Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into the Environment Effects Statement Process in Victoria (Parliamentary Paper No 59, September 2011).
2. 6
   Law Reform Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Justice (Final Report, May 2009) 26.
3. 7
   Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Administration and Operation of the Migration Act 1958 (Report, March 2006) 280–1 [9.30]–[9.38].
4. 8
   Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Parliament of Australia, Alert Digest (Digest No 9 of 2007, 13 August 2007) 11.
5. 9
   Legislation Review Committee, Parliament of New South Wales, Legislation Review Digest (Digest No 13 of 2008, 10 November 2008) 6.
6. 10
   Department of Parliamentary Services (Cth), Bills Digest (Digest No 75 of 2008–09, 27 January 2009) 8.
7. 11
   Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Parliament of Australia, Scrutiny Digest (Digest No 1 of 2018, 7 February 2018).
8. 12
   Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Parliament of Australia, Tenth Report of 2016 (Report, 30 November 2016) 671. [Not: … Tenth Report of 2016 (Report No 10 of 2016, 30 November 2016) 671.]

• [Not: … Tenth Report of 2016 (Report No 10 of 2016, 30 November 2016) 671.]

  the title already gives the number and year, so repeating them as a document number is wrong

• Rule 7.1.1: Reports and Similar Documents: General Rule
• Rule 1.11.4: Spans of Dates and Times