Premier & Cabinet

Type:
Department of Premier and Cabinet Circular
Identifier:
C2002-38
Status:
Archived

C2002-38 On-Line Access to NSW Legislation

Description

The Parliamentary Counsel's Office has developed a new website that provides an authoritative, up-to-date, source site for NSW legislation: www.legislation.nsw.gov.au

Detailed Outline

The Parliamentary Counsel's Office has developed a new website that provides an authoritative, up-to-date, source site for NSW legislation: www.legislation.nsw.gov.au

The website contains a dynamic, up-to-date collection of NSW Acts and subordinate legislation, including environmental planning instruments, that shows the status of each item of legislation and provides advanced searching facilities. Historical and repealed versions of legislation are retained on the site for those seeking to establish the law as it was at a certain point in time. The new site provides a very high quality on-screen representation of the printed page. The dynamic collection is in HTML and can readily be imported into word processing applications.

A second major feature of the website is an archival collection of NSW legislation as it was originally made. This contains over 6000 instruments including Acts and items of subordinate legislation going back to 1990 and is added to on a progressive basis as new legislation is made. The archival collection is in PDF and is also searchable.

The new website was launched on 27 June and currently contains all NSW Acts and some subordinate legislation (the balance of the subordinate legislation will be added over the following 3 months).

Bills introduced into Parliament will continue to be available on the Parliament House website (www.parliament.nsw.gov.au) and information guides about legislation, including the Weekly Bulletin email service, will continue to be available from the Parliamentary Counsel's Office corporate website (www.pco.nsw.gov.au).

The new website will be subject to ongoing development and further enhancements.

Agencies that wish to reprocess legislative data and run their own intranet version of the up-to-date collection of NSW legislation can purchase the source data (in XML format) and a weekly updating service from the Parliamentary Counsel's Office.

Enquiries regarding the website should be directed to Michael Rubacki, Publishing and Administration Manager, Parliamentary Counsel's Office on (02) 9228 7139.

 

Roger B Wilkins
Director-General

Overview

Compliance

Not Mandatory

AR Details

Date Issued
Jul 29, 2002
Review Date
Dec 31, 2014
Replaces
Replaced By

Contacts

Contact
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Phone
02 9228 5555
Publishing Entity
Department of Premier and Cabinet
Issuing Entity
Department of Premier and Cabinet