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Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland

The Queensland Parliament has been making laws since 1860, though some New South Wales laws are still in force in Queensland. The latest multi-volume consolidation contains all Queensland laws as in force in 1962. Most acts are available online from 1991 in their original form, and from 1992 in amended versions.

Current Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland

Previous Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland

Further Reading of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland

Index of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland



Current Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland:

Acts of the Parliament of Queensland
1990-
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Queensland Legislation Reprints
1992-
A new series of reprints of Queensland legislation began in 1992. This series was preceded by the loose-leaf Queensland Statutes Reprint, and by earlier pamphlet reprints going back as far as the 1930s.
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Web Publications | NLA | NT | QLD | VIC | WA


Previous Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland:

Acts of the Parliament of Queensland
1860-1962
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Queensland Statutes (1962 reprint) [consolidation]
1828-1962

This is the latest multi-volume consolidation of Queensland laws, in 20 volumes published 1963-1975. Earlier consolidations were published in 1862-1864 (Pring's edition), 1874, 1881 (Cooper's edition), 1889 (Pain and Woolcock), 1911 and 1936.

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NLA | NT | QLD | SA | WA

Statutes of Queensland
1963-1989
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Further Reading of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland:

Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
The Attorney-General's Department provides information on law and justice related resources available nationwide.
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Halsbury's Laws of Australia
1991-
This multi-volume encyclopaedia of Australian law, published since 1991, gives detailed access to laws and relevant law cases. It is also available electronically as the Australian Legal Research Library and is regularly updated.
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ACT | NLA | NSW | NT | QLD | TAS | VIC | WA

The Laws of Australia [LBC]
1993-
This multi-volume encyclopaedia of Australian law, published since 1993, gives detailed access to laws and relevant law cases. It is also available electronically as the Complete Legal Research System, and is regularly updated.
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NLA | NSW | NT | VIC | WA


Index of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Queensland:

Queensland Legislation Annotations
1992-

This series of volumes, updated every six months, has been published since 1992 by the the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. It includes alphabetical and chronological indexes of current laws, a table of New South Wales laws in force in Queensland, and a subject index of Queensland laws.

From 1996 a separate volume on Repealed Legislation has been published annually.

The series was preceded by the Statutes of Queensland Annotations (loose leaf, 1986-1991), which in turn had replaced the ”Annotated table of acts“ previously published in the annual volume of the Queensland statutes.

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Web Publications | NLA | QLD | VIC | WA

Queensland Legislation Update Part 2: Tables of Queensland Legislation Reprints
1992-
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NLA | QLD | WA

State and Territory Laws - Retrospective Indexes

Locating older State acts, particularly from the 19th century, can be difficult if the year is not known. This is because legislation is published chronologically by year and most current indexes to legislation list only legislation in force, i.e. acts not repealed. Older acts which have been repealed are deleted from most current indexes. In addition, before the practice of citing acts by short titles, older acts were cited by slightly different titles. Lastly, State acts were originally numbered by regnal years and running numbers rather than by calendar year e.g. 26 Vic. no.1.

A listing of collections of 19th century state legislation may be found in Annotated bibliography of printed materials on Australian law 1788-1900, by Alex Castles, under the Index heading "Legislation". The list also includes separately published individual acts.

Most States have published retrospective chronological or alphabetical indexes which list ALL acts passed, their short titles and both calendar and regnal year. These enable researchers to verify and locate legislation in annual bound volumes.


 

 

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