REPUBLIC OF NAURU

LEGISLATION PUBLICATION REGULATIONS 2011

SL No. 3 of 2011

Table of Provisions

PART 1 – PRELIMINARY MATTERS

1 Citation
2 Commencement
3 Definitions

PART 2 – CORRECTIONS AND EDITORIAL CHANGES

4 Correction and editing of written law
5 Changes in citation of written law
6 Numbering and placement of new provision
7 Corrections and changes not to alter effect of written law
8 Omission of spent provisions from compilation
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REPUBLIC OF NAURU

Legislation Publication Regulations 2011

SL No. 3 of 2011

Cabinet makes the following regulations under section 19 of the Legislation Publication Act 2011:

PART 1 – PRELIMINARY MATTERS

1 Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Legislation Publication Regulations 2011. 

2 Commencement

These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 9 May 2011. 

3 Definitions

In this Act:

'double-year citation', for a written law, means a citation of the law that consists of: 

(a) the words in the short title of the law; and 

(b) the year the law was made or certified; and 

(c) a later year in which the law was amended; 

'number' includes a letter; 

'provision', of a written law, means a section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sub-subparagraph, proviso, chapeau, schedule, regulation, subregulation sub-subregulation, rule, subrule or sub-subrule; 'single-year citation', for a written law, means a citation of the law that consists of: 

(a) the words in the short title of the law; and 

(b) the year the law was made or certified. 

PART 2 – CORRECTIONS AND EDITORIAL CHANGES

4 Correction and editing of written law

(1) In the preparation of a written law for publication under the Act, the Parliamentary Counsel may add, remove or change any of the following in the text of the written law: 

(a) punctuation; 

(b) a cross-reference in a schedule to the provision of the law that gives the schedule effect; 

(c) provision headings and notes; 

(d) subject to subsection (3), capitalisation; 

(e) formatting. 

Examples for regulation 4(1)(e)

The following are examples of formatting: the layout of provisions, the font type, use of italics and bold typeface, and the use of document headers and footers.

(2) The Parliamentary Counsel may also add a provision number to a provision that is missing a number.

(3) The Parliamentary Counsel must not alter the capitalisation of a word in a written law if the alteration would have the effect of: 

(a) applying a definition to the word; or 

(b) disapplying a definition to the word. 

5 Changes in citation of written law 

In the preparation of a written law for publication under the Act, the Parliamentary Counsel may change the double-year citation of the written law to a single-year citation, and reflect the change in: 

(a) the provision of the written law about the citation of the law; and 

(b) references in the text of the written law to the citation of the written law; and 

(c) references in other written laws to the citation of the written law. 

6 Numbering and placement of new provision

(1) This regulation applies if: 

(a) a written law (the 'amending law') amends another written law (the 'amended law') by: 

(i) inserting a new provision; or 

(ii) omitting or repealing an existing provision and substituting a new provision; and 

(b) the amendment results in the numbering and placement of the new provision that is clearly contrary to the intention of the person who made the law (the 'law-maker'). 

(2) In preparing a compilation of the amended law for publication, the Parliamentary Counsel may alter the placement and numbering of the new provision to reflect the intention of the law-maker. 

(3) For subregulation (1)(b), the person who made the law is: 

(a) in the case of an Act – Parliament; or 

(b) in the case of subsidiary legislation – the person who made the subsidiary legislation under a power given by a written law. 

7 Corrections and changes not to alter effect of written law

(1) These Regulations do not permit corrections or changes to a written law that would alter the meaning or effect of the written law.

(2) A correction or change purportedly made under the authority of these Regulations that alters the meaning or effect of the written law is invalid and of no effect.

8 Omission of spent provisions from compilation

(1) The Parliamentary Counsel may, when preparing a compilation of a written law for publication, omit from the compilation a provision that relates only to amendments or repeals that have been executed.

(2) The Parliamentary Counsel must include in the compilation a reference to the omitted provision.