ALLA (WA) News Blog

Law Library Victoria is hosting the Australian Office of Parliamentary Counsel for an early look at the new Federal Register of Legislation website.  This free webinar is open to all including ALLA and non ALLA members.  When: Friday 9 December 1.15pm – 1.45pm AEDT / 11.15am - 11.45am AWST. Register via Eventbrite .

 The Federal Register of Legislation is undergoing a complete redesign of the website with plans to launch early 2023.  On 14 November, details of how the new homepage will look were release on the legislation.gov.au website.  You can check out theses details about the New Register here . 

The Federal Register of Legislation (the Register) is being redeveloped to modernise the website, the technology supporting the website and give greater flexibility for future improvements. The redeveloped Register is scheduled to go live early in 2023. The Register plans to send out a series of updates in the lead up to the launch of the new Register. Each update will highlight an updated feature that will be available on the new Register.  The updates are available from the Regsiter website , with the first being published on 14 October 2002. it includes details of a survey about the current Register and invitations for people to complete the survey.  The survey results will be used as a baseline to assist the Office of Parliamentary Counsel to evaluate the impact of the improvements made to the new Registers.  The survey will be open until 4 November 2022. You can access the survey via Survey Monkey here.   The update also states: Once the redeveloped Registe...

Over on the Australian Public Law blog, Nicholas Simoes da Silva and William Isdale are dipping their toe into an almost law librarian specific task and are proposing a weed of the Commonwealth statute book.  In the piece - Tidying our house of law; bringing the Marie Kondo philosophy to the Commonwealth statute book  - they propose; First, we suggest that we need to identify and repeal ‘dead law’ – statutory detritus akin to empty pizza boxes. Second, we need to shine light on ‘dark law’ – delegated legislation that currently hides under our metaphorical sofa, but which should be labelled and put in drawers. We conclude by arguing for a more rigorous process of post-legislative review, that works holistically rather than through ad-hoc inquiries, to keep our law in proper order.   Putting aside the Marie Kondo references - anyone who tells me I need fewer books isn't to be trusted in this librarian's opinion - and recognising the ALRC's recent work on Improving the ...

Starting on 1 July 2021, printed copies of WA legislation will no longer be available for purchase from the State Law Publisher (SLP). The Government Printer of Western Australia has authorised commercial printing company LitSupport (TIMG) Pty Ltd to supply printed copies of WA legislation. A new facility that links directly from the WA legislation website to LitSupport’s online ordering system streamlines the process of ordering printed copies of WA legislation. To find out more about how the new online ordering process works, see the Western Australian Legislation website - About buying printed Western Australian legislation .

"Excited for a Bill about Bills? That's like getting excited about the Acts Interpretation Act!" Keen followers of Western Australian legislation, would be pleased to see the progress of the Legislation Bill 2021 (WA) pass through the Third Reading in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. (Long time readers would remember this post from 2018 ). Even keener followers of Hansard would have noticed the Attorney General, John Quigley provides a summary of the Bill:  The bill proposes to modernise the processes for publishing WA legislation. It will enact a new Legislation Act that sets out the responsibilities for publishing WA legislation, provide for the official status of both hard copy and electronic versions of WA legislation and give the PCO a more useful set of editorial powers so that WA legislation can be kept up-to-date, modernised and simplified, and errors corrected, without the need for the changes to be enacted by Parliament. Important restrictions on the exercis...