Future amendment annotations

From July 2025, OQPC will gradually start incorporating annotations for future amendments into reprints. A future or uncommenced amendment is an amendment to an existing law made by a new law that has been enacted but has not yet commenced. These future amendment annotations will appear against provisions with future amendments in the same way that normal amendment annotations do. To set them apart, they will be italicised and will include the words "(uncommenced amendment)". This will indicate that, at some stage in the future, an amendment will be made to that provision. As always, amendments will not be incorporated in the text of a law until after they commence, but these future amendment annotations will alert users to upcoming changes and will provide convenient links for you to see what will happen once that amendment commences. 
 
Reprints that include future amendment annotations will have a note on the status information page and the cover page of the PDF, under the heading Amendments not yet in force.  These notes will alert users to the presence of future amendment annotations and provide general information about them. The notes will also advise when the future amendment annotations were added to the reprint.
 
Please note that the addition of future amendment annotations will be a gradual process. Please continue to check the legislative history of reprints, particularly the List of Legislation, to determine what future amendments may be awaiting commencement for any particular reprint.

Example of a future amendment annotation

Example of a reprint note for a reprint that contains future amendment annotations