Queensland Consolidated Acts

REPRINTS ACT 1992 - SECT 49

(1) A law may be amended or referred to as set out in this section.

(2) If a reprint of the law has been produced and no amendments of the law have commenced on or after the reprint date specified in the latest reprint, the law may be amended or referred to having regard to the text of the law as shown in the latest reprint.

(3) If a reprint of the law has been produced and amendments of the law have commenced on or after the reprint date specified in the latest reprint, the law may be amended or referred to having regard to the text of the law--

(a) as shown in the latest reprint; and

(b) as the text would be required to be shown in a subsequent reprint because of Part 3 (Amendments must be included in reprints).

(4) If a reprint of the law has not been produced, the law may be amended or referred to having regard to the text of the law--

(a) as it would be required to be shown in a reprint because of Part 3 (Amendments must be included in reprints); and

(b) as the text would be shown if the following provisions were used--

• Part 4, Division 2 (Updated citations and references to law)

• section 25 (References to gender specific offices)

• section 26 (Spelling)

• section 27 (Punctuation)

• section 29 (Expression of number, year, date, time, amount of money, quantity etc.) but only to the extent stated in subsection (5)

• Part 4, Division 5 (Updated naming conventions within statutory instruments)

• section 34 (Relocation of marginal or cite notes)

• section 35 (Format and printing style).

(5) For the purpose of subsection (4), section 29 must be used only to express the designation of provision units in the law, and references to the designation of provision units in another law, in a way consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

Example of subsection (5)--

An expression in column 1 of the following table may be amended or referred to as if it were the corresponding bolded expression in column 2