Legislative drafting and publishing services for ACT legislation is provided by the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office. The office maintains the ACT legislation register (www.legislation.act.gov.au) where ACT legislation and legislative material are notified and published.

As part of its legislative drafting services the office:

• analyses legislative proposals and provides advice on their policy, legal and constitutional implications and on alternative ways of achieving policy objectives
• ensures that the Legislation Act 2001 remains a high-quality, easily understood source of the law
• manages the technical amendments program for ACT legislation to ensure it forms a cohesive statute book of the highest standard.

The Legislation Register

The Register provides the community with free and quick access to ACT legislation and related information.

The register contains:

• authorised republications of laws currently in force
• Acts as made
• subordinate laws as made
• disallowable instruments as made
• notifiable instruments as made
• commencement notices as made
• resolutions by the Legislative Assembly to disallow or amend subordinate laws or disallowable instruments
• bills presented to the Legislative Assembly
• notifications of the making of Acts, subordinate laws, disallowable instruments, notifiable instruments and commencement notices
• notifications of the disallowance or amendment of subordinate laws and disallowable instruments by the Legislative Assembly.

Visit the Parliamentary Counsel's Office website for more information.