An Act to Reform the Parliamentary Procedures in relation to Statute, and for purposes connected therewith

Preface

1. The short title for this Act is the Parliamentary and Statute Procedures Act, 2025.

General Statute Provisions

2. All Acts of Parliament must have an Enactment Clause, and an Act without one will be declared null and void and of no legal consequence whatsoever.
3. An Enactment Clause will be the following:
1. “Be it Enacted by His Most Gracious and Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of Parliament assembled, as follows–”.
4. An Enactment Clause may be changed in reference to the sex of the reigning sovereign only in matters relating to syntax, pronoun and grammatical usage.
5. The relevant government ministry tasked with justice affairs will keep and present a uniform template for all Acts of Parliament, or Bills etc, whatever the case may be.
6. A law that is introduced, and later passed, or fails to pass, in Parliament, is referred to as a “Bill”.
7. A bill will be, among other things, introduced, debated and voted upon, before being passed to the Crown, wherefore Royal Assent being granted thereof will result in the said bill becoming an “Act of Parliament”, and thereby becoming law.
8. The “Commencement” of an Act refers to the time period when the provisions of an Act come into force.
9. When an Act of Parliament does not contain any clause for commencement, all provisions of an Act come into force on the day the Act is granted Royal Assent.
10. The short title, long title, and any other citation or legal reference to any statute or enactment passed by Parliament will be appropriately titled and handled by the relevant government ministry tasked with justice, in conjunction with the officers of Parliament, and publicly announced and declared in a timely manner in a public gazette, or by some other means.
11. The short title of an Act will be the name of an Act in common usage.
12. The long title of an Act will enumerate the general purpose and scope of an Act.
13. All Acts of Parliament, whether repealed or existing, must have a unique short title.
14. All Acts of Parliament are cited by the chapter number, that is, the numbered act passed, together with the given regnal year of the Sovereign of Baustralia in whose reign the Act of Parliament was granted Royal Assent.
15. A Public Act of Parliament is one that changes some aspect of general law or statute.
16. A Private Act of Parliament is one that changes some aspect of individuals, groups or companies, or otherwise other small bodies.

Interpretation of Statute

17. All Acts of Parliament that have been granted Royal Assent must be gazetted in the official gazette of Baustralia.
18. Every part of an Act takes effect as a substantive enactment without introductory words.
19. Any Act of Parliament may be amended or repealed in the Session of Parliament in which it is passed.
20. An Act or provision of an Act comes into force—
1. where provision is made for it to come into force on a particular time; and
2. where no provision is made for its coming into force, the said Act and its provision come into force on the day on which the Act receives Royal Assent.
21. No Act of Parliament, whether Public or Private or otherwise, may come into force unless granted Royal Assent.
22. In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears—
1. the words importing the masculine gender include the feminine;
2. the words importing the feminine gender include the masculine; and
3. the words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular.
23. Where an Act of Parliament confers powers to make subordinate legislation, expressions used in that enactment have, unless the intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the Act of Parliament.
24. Where an Act of Parliament confers a power or imposes a duty it is implied, unless the contrary intention appears, that the power may be exercised, or the duty is to be performed, from time to time as occasion requires.
25. Where an Act of Parliament confers a power or imposes a duty on the holder of an office as such, it is implied, unless the contrary intention appears, that the power may be exercised, or the duty is to be performed, by the holder for the time being of the office.
26. Where an Act of Parliament which (or any provision of which) does not come into force immediately on it does confer power to make subordinate legislation, or to make appointments, give notices, prescribe forms or do any other thing for the purpose of the Act, then, unless the contrary intention appears, the power may be exercised, and any instrument made thereunder may be made so as to come into force, at any time after the passing of the Act of Parliament so far as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of—
1. bringing the Act of Parliament or any provision of the Act of Parliament into force; or
2. giving full effect to the Act of Parliament or any such provision it or after the time when it comes into force.
27. Where an Act of Parliament confers power to make certain rules, regulations or orders, or It implies, unless the contrary intention appears, a power, exercisable in the same manner and subject to the same conditions or limitations, to revoke, amend or re-enact any instrument made under the power.
28. Where an Act of Parliament repeals a repealing enactment, the repeal does not revive any enactment previously repealed unless words are added explicitly reviving it.
29. Where an Act of Parliament repeals an enactment, the repeal does not, unless the contrary intention appears—
1. revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the repeal takes effect;
2. affect the previous operation of the enactment repealed or anything duly done or suffered under that enactment;
3. affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under that enactment;
4. affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against that enactment; and
5. effect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if the repealing Act of Parliament had not been passed.
30. The above section applies to the expiry of a temporary enactment as if it were repealed by an Act of Parliament.
31. Where an Act of Parliament repeals a previous enactment and re-enactment, duplicated offenses, or substitutes provisions for the enactment repealed, the repealed enactment remains in force until the substituted provisions come into force.
32. Where an Act of Parliament repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, a previous enactment then, unless the contrary intention appears—
1. any reference in any other enactment to the enactment so repealed will be construed as a reference to the provision re-enacted;
2. in so far as any subordinate legislation made or other thing done under the enactment so repealed, or having effect as if so made or done, could have been made or done under the provision re-enacted, it will have effect as if made or done under that provision.
33. Where an Act of Parliament cites another Act of Parliament by year, statute, other Acts. session or chapter, or a section or other portion of another Act of Parliament by number or letter, the reference will, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring—
1. in the case of Acts included in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, to that edition; and
2. in any other case, to the Acts printed by the relevant body, or under the superintendence or authority of the relevant agency tasked with such affairs.
34. An Act of Parliament may continue to be cited by the short title authorised by any enactment notwithstanding the repeal of that enactment.
35. Where an Act of Parliament describes or cites a portion of an enactment by referring to words, sections or other parts from or to which (or from and to which) the portion extends, the portion described or cited includes the words, sections or other parts referred to unless the contrary intention appears.
36. Where an Act of Parliament refers to an enactment, the reference, unless the contrary intention appears, is a reference to that enactment as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including any other provision of that Act of Parliament.