Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 40

             (1)  In any Act, instrument or document:

                     (a)  any Act may be cited by its short title, or by reference to the secular year in which it was passed and its number; and

                     (b)  any Imperial Act may be cited by its short title (if any) or in such other manner as is sufficient in an Imperial Act; and

                     (c)  any State Act may be cited by a reference to the State by the Parliament whereof the Act was passed, together with such mode of reference as is sufficient in Acts passed by such Parliament; and

                     (d)  any Territory Act may be cited by a reference to the Territory by whose legislature the Act was passed, together with such mode of reference as is sufficient in Acts passed by that legislature.

             (2)  Any enactment may be cited by reference to the part, section, subsection, or other division of the Act, Imperial Act, State Act or Territory Act, in which the enactment is contained.