AGLC4 Rule 7.5.2: Written Submissions to Government and Parliamentary Inquiries, Committees and Agencies

A written submission is cited by its author, the words Submission No and its number, the word to and the receiving body, the italic name of the inquiry, the date in brackets and any pinpoint. A parliamentary committee is named with its legislature; an anonymous or suppressed author is omitted unless otherwise identified; the number is dropped where submissions are unnumbered; the inquiry name is dropped where it is not stated and always for royal commissions.

AGLC4 page 115

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 115
Author, Submission No Number to Body, Name of Inquiry (Full Date) Pinpoint.
Committee, Legislature

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

Formatting

  • The author is roman and followed by a comma; a code name used in place of a suppressed name is used as the author.
  • The words Submission No, the number and the word to are roman; No takes no full stop.
  • Where submissions are unnumbered the phrase is simply Submission to.
  • The receiving body is roman; for a parliamentary committee it is the committee name, a comma, and the legislature, with the chamber added in front where needed.
  • A comma follows the body, then the inquiry name in italics.
  • The inquiry name is omitted where it is not stated, and always for a submission to a royal commission, whose name serves as the body.
  • The date follows in round brackets after a space, given as fully as known; if there is no date the pinpoint follows the inquiry name directly.
  • The pinpoint follows after a space and may combine a page and a paragraph in square brackets.
  • Submissions by parties to litigation are cited under rule 2.8 instead.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 115
  1. 49
    Australian Institute of Company Directors, Submission No 119 to Senate Standing Committees on Economics, Parliament of Australia, The Performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (21 October 2013) 2.
  2. 50
    Mobil Oil Australia, Submission No 25 to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Inquiry into the Price of Unleaded Petrol (27 July 2007) 6–7.
  3. 51
    Human Rights Law Resource Centre, Submission No 21 to Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Parliament of Australia, Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Laws Reform Bill 2009 (11 September 2009) 3 [6].
  4. 52
    Ambulance Victoria, Submission No 208 to Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Drug Law Reform (24 March 2017).
  5. 53
    Criminal Bar Association, Submission to Law Reform Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Forensic Sampling and DNA Databases in Criminal Investigations 2–3.
  6. 54
    Anonymous 489, Submission to Royal Commission into Family Violence (29 May 2015).

See also

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