Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The legislative instruments registered in each year must be numbered by the parliamentary counsel as nearly as practicable in the order in which they are notified.
(2) However, the parliamentary counsel may—
(a) allocate different kinds of legislative instruments to different series for numbering purposes; or
(b) add distinguishing letters to numbers to indicate the kind of legislative instrument.
Examples
1 The parliamentary counsel may number subordinate laws, disallowable instruments, commencement notices and other legislative instruments in different series.
2 The parliamentary counsel may add the letters ‘SL' to the numbers of registered subordinate laws, the letters ‘DI' to the numbers of registered disallowable instruments and the letters ‘CN' to the numbers of registered commencement notices.
Note An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see s 126 and s 132).
(3) Also, a regulation may provide that this section does not apply to a notifiable instrument of a kind prescribed by regulation.