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Read this guide in conjunction with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation.
Legislation Databases
Legify - A free tool that locates and links to the authoritative version of Australian legislation and delegated legislation.
Western Australian Legislation - Western Australian Legislation Database, includes links to Bills and other parliamentary documents.
Federal Register of Legislation - Commonwealth Legislation Database, includes legislative material from the non self-governing territories and Bills and other parliamentary documents including Government Gazettes.
Commonwealth Bills and Legislation Information - Parliament of Australia website, offers searching, browsing, information on proposed legislation and alert services.
LawNow Legislation - Database of current national legislation for all Australian Federal, State and Territory Jurisdictions. Includes related materials and links to judicial consideration (case law) of legislation and/or sections. From Lexis Advance.
Lawlex - Subject index and links to Australian legislative materials, includes links to Bills and Hansard.
Federal Statutes Annotations - From Lexis Advance.
Law Quick Guides
- Law Library Self TourEasily identify key areas of the Law Library
Citing Bills
The essence of citing a Bill is:
Short title + year + (jurisdiction) + pinpoint reference.
Bills are cited in the same way as Acts, except the name is not italicised.
Pinpoint references are made to a clause or clauses, abbreviated to ‘cl’ and ‘cls’ respectively (AGLC rule 3.1.4).
