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ATTORNEY-GENERAL

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO. 112

Statutes - Reprints

MS FOLLETT - Asked the Attorney-General on notice on 29 March 1990:

What is the current policy on the reprinting of the ACT laws?

MR COLLAERY - The answer to Ms Folletts question is as follows:

Most A.C.T. statutes were reprinted in 1979 but very few have been reprinted since then. All have been further amended and most have undergone several substantial changes.

In the transition to self-government every statute was amended, many extensively.

As a result, the 1979 reprints are badly out of date in most cases.

Following self-government, the Law Office became responsible for reprinting A.C.T. statutes and a program has been established with the object of reprinting the entire collection of statutes as soon as possible.

Priority is being given to statutes most extensively amended.

A proposal is also being developed to computerise the reprinting process to facilitate future regular reprinting at a greatly reduced cost and to provide the Law Office and other users with access to a database of up-to-date consolidations of A.C.T. statutes.

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