INTRODUCTION TO THE 1961 CALENDAR
T H E TEXT of all statutes and regulations in the Calendar has been submitted to an extensive consolidation and revision by Dr H. A. J.
Ford, formerly Reader in Law of the University, and now Robert Garran Professor of Law in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University.
Persons who were familiar with the arrangement of the Calendar in 1960 or in earlier years will soon be aware of the extensive re-arrange- ments now effected, but, once the initial unfamiliarity has faded, they should find many benefits from the statutes and regulations being arranged in their new form.
The guiding principle has been to sub-divide those of the statutes and regulations, formerly somewhat cumbersome, into separate and distinct entities, with titles clearly descriptive of their functions, or to bring together under one heading related items previously found under separate headings.
The statutes and regulations are re-numbered, with Arabic numbers, in a form of decimal notation. By this notation, a reference given, as for example R.2.1.2, is to be interpreted as:
Regulations, Chapter 2—"University Enrolment"
No. 1 of the Chapter—"Terms and Timetables"
Section 2 of the Regulation—Lays down the statutory commencement dates and duration of University terms.
References to statutes are prefixed by the letter "S". At the head of each page, set in bold type, are given the first or last reference of that page in the same manner as is done for words on the pages of a dictionary.
References in the index of the Calendar, where these relate to matters within the statutes or regulations, are given in this same manner. Index references to items appearing elsewhere in the Calendar are given by page number.
Considerable editorial pruning of redundancies or jargon has also been effected, as well as the imposition of a more uniform system of punctuation and typographical arrangement.
Those responsible for the production of this issue of the Calendar are aware that certain matters of substance ripe for revision are perpetuated.
But, being matters of substance, any changes required in this category must await formal legislative amendment on some other occasion.
