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Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania

From its founding in 1803 to 1825, the laws of Tasmania (known as Van Diemen's Land until the beginning of 1856) were those of New South Wales, supplemented by Government and General Orders promulgated by the Lieutenant Governor in Tasmania.

From 1826 to 1856, the acts of the Legislative Council were published in the Hobart Town Gazette, and occasionally printed in volumes covering a short period.

The acts of the Tasmanian Parliament established in 1856 have been published as Acts of the Parliament of Tasmania 1856-1980, and Statute Law of Tasmania since 1981, though the spine title of both since 1960 has been Tasmanian Statutes.

Tasmanian acts and regulations have been online in consolidated form since 1997.

Current Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania

Previous Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania

Further Reading of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania

Index of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania



Current Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania:

Reprint of Statutes
1978-
The Tasmania's Legislation website includes all acts in consolidated form since 1997, or at any selected date since then. In 1978, the Government printer began reprinting acts for inclusion in a loose-leaf binder system. Prior to this date, from 1953-1976, reprinted Acts were bound with the annual volumes of statutes. These reprints updated acts that had been included in the 1936 and 1959 multi-volume consolidations.
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Statute Law of Tasmania
1981-
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Previous Series of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania:

Acts of the Lieutenant-Governor and Council of Van Diemen's Land
1822-1856
Various editions of the acts of the Legislative Council of Tasmania were published under this title, some containing acts of a single year, others containing collected acts for periods such as 1826-1842, 1843-1848, 1822-1856.
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Acts of the Parliament of Tasmania
1856-1980
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Tasmanian Statutes 1826-1959 (Reprint)

This is the latest multi-volume consolidation of Tasmanian acts, in seven volumes. It contains all Tasmanian laws as in force at the end of 1959, with all amendments incorporated in the text. The public general acts are arranged alphabetically by short title, and the private acts (in Volume 7) alphabetically by their long titles; there are no annotations. Appended to Volume 6 are the Imperial Acts and documents applicable to Tasmania.

An earlier multi-volume consolidation, the Public General Acts of Tasmania (Reprint) covered the period 1826-1936, in 7 volumes; the acts are arrnaged alphabetically by subject, and it is extensively annotated.

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Further Reading of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania:

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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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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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Index of Acts/Ordinances/Statutes - Tasmania:

Indexes to the Legislation of Tasmania
1982-

An annual publication formed by the union of: Alphabetical table of Tasmanian acts, 1826-1979, published in 1980; Subject index to the Tasmanian statutes, 1973-1981; and Subject index to subordinate legislation, 1973-1981.

The online indexes include lists of all acts from 1826, as well as acts recently passed or repealed.

An Index to the statutes of Tasmania was also published in several editions from 1893 to 1928, with a supplement in 1934.

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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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