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Gives a brief overview of how to work with the Queensland Office of the Queensland Parliamentary in order to draft new legislation.
The Commonwealth Legislative Drafting Manual guides the practitioner step by step through the various things he or she needs to know. It also contains a series of appendices relating to the procedure for the preparation of legislation, the contents of drafting instructions, and some hints to the beginner on the best approaches to the task.
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This first edition of New South Wales Legislative Council Practice brings together the history, practice and procedure of the New South Wales Legislative Council - the Upper House of the New South Wales Parliament, and the first and oldest legislative body in Australia.Since the advent of responsible government in New South Wales in 1856, the New South Wales Legislative Council has been the focus of continuous struggle regarding its composition, powers, role and very existence. However, from its tumultuous history, the Council has in recent years emerged as a democratically elected, powerful and effective upper house, in many ways mirroring the development of the Australian Senate. Today the...
The Queensland Legislation Handbook outlines relevant policies, recommendations, information, and procedures for the realisation of policy in the form of Acts of Parliament or subordinate legislation. The handbook is particularly designed to help departmental policy or instructing officers to work effectively with the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel (OQPC). This handbook outlines what is needed in drafting instructions for Acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation. Various other procedural requirements associated with the legislative development process are also included.
This book constitutes the first thorough academic analysis of legislative drafting. By placing the study of legislation and its principles within the paradigm of Flyvberg's phronetic social sciences, it offers a novel approach which breaks the tradition of unimaginative past descriptive reiterations of drafting conventions. Instead of prescribing rules for legislation, it sets out to identify efficacy as the main aim of the actors in the policy, legislative and drafting processes, and effectiveness as the main goal in the drafting of legislation. Through the prism of effectiveness as synonymous with legislative quality, the book explores the stages of the drafting process; guides the reader ...