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How to check for, and find, most up-to-date legislation changes beyond the latest reprint published electronically

Step 1
Go to the Update to table 1—Alphabetical table of current Queensland legislation

Under the heading to the relevant item of principal legislation note—

any amending legislation (including any amending Bill/Act or notified subordinate legislation)
the commencement dates of the amendments.

Step 2
Go to the latest reprint—

Check the date of the latest reprint (on the front cover) against the commencement date of the amending legislation identified in step 1.
If the current reprint is dated at, or after, the latest amending legislation commencement date, the reprint has incorporated all the commenced amendments.
If not, then individual items of original amending legislation have to be found, taken into account, and read in conjunction with the latest reprint.

Step 3
Go to the original amending Acts

Step 4
Go to the original amending subordinate legislation

Step 5
If the cumulative weekly update indicates legislation is to be amended by a Bill before the Legislative Assembly, check the progress of the Bill by accessing Progress of Bills introduced into Parliament

To check whether the Bill has been assented to, go to the List of Acts as passed

This is updated when the office receives notice of assent from the Table Office of the Queensland Parliament, which as a matter of practice is usually within hours of the assent happening. If a Bill has been passed it is usually a matter of days to assent.

Information about the parliamentary record of proceedings

Separately to the above, the history of Bills/Acts can be followed on the website of the Queensland Parliament.

For example, the first, second and third readings of the Bill can be found by searching the title of the Bill using the search facility available at Queensland Parliament—Document Search. The assent of the Bill is also reported to the Legislative Assembly ordinarily on a later date following passage. This can also be found by the same search facility.

This page last updated: 3 March, 2009