New South Wales Legislation - Weekly Bulletin

Web enhancements

Recent enhancements (December 2002) (www.legislation.nsw.gov.au)

Following the launch and first few months of operation of the new website, and in response to user feedback, a number of enhancements have been made to the site.

Environmental Planning Instruments (EPIs)
These are now displayed as a separate category of instrument and appear with their own listings just like Acts and Regulations. You can now perform global searches and browse EPIs from the In Force, As Made and Repealed databases. The collection of principal Local Environmental Plans is now complete.

Limit search to year/number
This new feature allows you to limit or narrow your searches to a particular year, or, if you know the number of the instrument, to a particular Act, Regulation or EPI. This feature was requested by many specialist users of legislation.

Repealed legislation warning
Each page of a repealed title now includes a warning message that the title has been repealed. You can also access historical versions of repealed legislation, where they exist.

Historical versions of repealed legislation
These have been added to the site. The list of versions indicates which was the last version before repeal and a warning message displays on each page that a title is an historical version of repealed legislation. Also, the list of Historical versions for In Force and Repealed legislation is now more effectively displayed in table format (limited to 10 entries per page) starting with the most current version and working backwards in time.

Parent Act
The name of the Act under which statutory instruments (including EPIs) are made has been added to the Status Information for In Force statutory instruments and EPIs.

Table of Contents for Whole instrument
The text of the Table of Contents has been added to the display of a Whole Instrument, including hypertext links. This feature will be particularly helpful when printing out copies of whole instruments.

Changes to Status information
Refinements have been made to the status information alerts and warning messages to reflect the site additions and enhancements outlined above. Other changes include improved information about the currency of a version and alteration of the warning that displays when a historical version does not contain the text of certain amendments having a retrospective commencement.

Allocation of Administration of Acts
This instrument has been added to the In Force database under Regulations etc In Force. The Allocation of the Administration of Acts is approved by the Governor and published in the Government Gazette. This sets out the Ministers that are responsible for particular Acts and for Regulations under those Acts.

The website is to be formally reviewed in 2003 and additional feedback from users is encouraged.


A summary of legislative activity for the week ending Friday 17 January 2003

1 Bills
Parliament not sitting

Exposure Bills
Nil


Bills introduced
Government
Nil
Non-Government
Nil


Bills reprinted following amendment in Committee
Nil


Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament
Nil


Acts assented to
Nil


For further details of the passage of Bills and the full text of Bills see the NSW Parliament Bills List

2 Gazette

[Including Gazette No 14 and Special Supplement Nos 15 - 17 of 17 January 2003]

For the current issue of the Gazette see the Government Printing Service website.

Allocation of the Administration of Acts
New arrangements in substitution for those in operation before 15 January 2003 (2003-14)

Proclamations
Proclamations amending Acts
Fisheries Management Act 1994 - amendment to Schedule 1 (2003 - 16)
Police Act 1990 - amendment to Schedule 2 (2003 - 17)
Proclamations commencing Acts
Cemeteries Legislation Amendment (Unused Burial Rights) Act 2001 No 122 (2003 - 15) - Whole of Act: 1 February 2003
Proclamations general
Nil

Regulations and other statutory rules
By-laws
Crown Lands (General Reserves) Amendment (Unused Burial Rights) By-law 2003 (2003 - 21)
Notices
Nil
Orders
Nil
Regulations
Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Commercial Fishing and Miscellaneous Matters) Regulation 2003 (2003 - 18)
Fisheries Management (Lobster Share Management Plan) Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2003 (2003 - 19)
Necropolis Amendment (Unused Burial Rights) Regulation 2003 (2003 - 20)
Rules
Nil

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
Local Environmental Plans
Fairfield Local Environmental Plan 1994 (Am No 87) (2003 - 22)
Gosford Local Environmental Plan No 434 (2003 - 23)
Lismore Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Am No 8) (2003 - 24)
Ryde Local Environmental Plan No 105 (2003 - 25)
Ryde Local Environmental Plan No 125 (2003 - 26)
Ryde Local Environmental Plan No 126 (2003 - 27)
Ryde Local Environmental Plan No 127 (2003 - 28)
Strathfield Local Environmental Plan No 103 (2003 - 29)
Regional Environmental Plans
Nil
State Environmental Plans
Nil

3 Other events and information

Legislative publications

For NSW legislation on-line see www.legislation.nsw.gov.au.

For detailed information about the status of legislation, see the tables of Acts and principal statutory instruments in NSW Legislation in Force.

For further information about NSW legislative publications see Information guides to legislative publications or contact hotline@pco.nsw.gov.au.

The current issue of the NSW Government Gazette is available online.

To purchase legislative publications contact Government Advertising and Information: telephone (02) 9238 0950, NSW country 1800 463 955 or Document Management Services by fax (02) 9743 8603 or Mail Order PO Box 256, Regents Park NSW 2143.



Acts and regulations etc reprinted
Acts
Fair Trading Act 1987 No 68 (Reprint No 5)
Regulations etc
Nil

For a list of reprints in production and proposed for production in 2002-2003 see NSW Proposed Reprints Program


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