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QUEENSLAND
THE STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS REPRINT ACT OF 1952
1 Eliz. 2 No. 26
[Reprinted as at 1 October, 1984]
An Act Relating to the Publication of a Reprint of Instruments made under Acts of the Legislature of Queensland, and for other purposes
[ASSENTED TO ~6 SEPTEMBER, 1952) BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. Short title. This Act may be cited as "The Statutory Instruments Reprint Act of 1952."
2. Commencement of Act. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.
3. Meanings of terms. In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them, that is to say:-
"Instrument-making authority"-The authority
auth~sed
by any Act (whether commencing before, on, or after the coming into operation of this Act) to make any statutory instrument;"Statutory Instrument"-Any Proclamation, Order in Council, order, rule, regulation, by-law, or other instrument whatsoever made (whether before, on, or after the coming into operation of this Act) under any Act;
"The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint"-The reprint by the Government Printer fQr this State from time to time after the coming into operation of this Act of any statutory instruments and published under the title of"The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint."
4. Reprints of statutory instruments authorised. The Government Printer is hereby authorised to publish under the title of "The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint" reprints of statutory instruments made (whether before, on or after the coming into operation of this Act) by instrument-making authorities.
2 s. 5 THE STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS REPRINT ACT OF 1952 s. 7
5. Incorporation of amendments in reprint of statutory instruments.
(1) Where any statutory instrument has (whether before, on, or after the coming into operation of this Act) been amended by-
(a) The repeal or omission of certain words or figures;
(b) The substitution of certain words or figures in lieu of any repealed or omitted words or figures; or
(c) The insertion or addition of certain words or figures, then, in any reprint of the statutory instrument in The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint, the statutory instrument may be printed as so amended.
(2) In every such reprint of any statutory instrument as so amended, reference shall be made in. the margin or a footnote to the statutory instrument or other means by which the amendment is made.
(3) When any statutory instrument prescribes a method of citation of some other statutory instrument, then, in every reprint of that other statutory instrument in The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint, that method of citation shall be substituted accordingly.
(4) There shall be printed in every reprint, in The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint, of any statutory instrument which has (whether before, on, or after the coming into operation of this Act) been amended, a short reference to every statutory instrument or other means by which it has been amended.
(5) In this section, "words" includes Part, Division, heading, regulation, sub-regulation, rule, sub-rule, by-law, sub-by-law, paragraph, sub-paragraph, Table, and Schedule.
6. Proof of statutory instruments. Any reprint published in The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint and purporting to be a reprint of a statutory instrument made by an instrument-making authority shall in all Courts within this State be evjdence of that statutory instrument, of the matters contained therein, and that that statutory instrument was duly made and is in force.
Where, pursuant to subsection one of section, five of this Act, a reprint as aforesaid purports to be of a statutory instrument as amended that reprint shall be evidence of that statutory instrument, and of any and every amendment thereto, and of the matters contained in the statutory instrument in question as so amended, and that that statutory instrument and any and every amendment thereof appearing in that reprint were duly made and are. in force.
7. Caption not to invalidate prescribed forms. (1) The validity of any form prescribed by or under any Act (whether prescribed before, on, or after the coming into operation of this Act) shall not be prejudiced by. reason only of the· fact that the short or collective title of that Act as cited in the caption to such form is changed by any amending Act.
(2) All supplies of forms prescribed ~y or under any Act and printed prior to any amendment of that Act may, subject to the provisions of
s. 8 THE STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS REPRINT ACT OF 1952 s. 8 3
that Act in force for the time being, be used and applied for the respective purposes for which they were prescribed notwithstanding any change in the short or collective title of that Act made subsequent to the date upon which such supplies were printed.
(3) In printing supplies of any forms prescribed by or under any Act subsequent to any amendment of the short or collective title of that Act the caption thereof shall, where necessary, be changed in order to ensure that the collective title for the time being of that Act is recited therein.
(4) In reprinting in The Queensland Statutory Instruments Reprint any statutory instrument containing any form then the caption of that form shall, where necessary, be changed in order to ensure that the collective title, if any, for the time being of the Act under which the form is prescribed is recited therein.
8. Saving of other enactments. The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for or diminution of any provision of any other Act.
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