A bill is a proposed law. See the legislative process fact sheet for information on how bills are considered and passed by Parliament.
Sources of Australian Capital Territory Bills
| ACT Legislation Register |
- Coverage: 1989-
- Browse current bills by title.
- Browse all bills by year.
- To search bills, use the advanced search and select ‘bills’ in the ‘legislation category’ section of the screen.
- The home page for each bill includes a link to the explanatory statement.
- Also contains exposure draft bills from 2003-
- Provided by the ACT Government.
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| AustLII |
- Coverage: 2002-
- Only contains the first print of the bill (i.e. as first introduced into Parliament).
- Click on the ‘download’ tab once you have located the bill to access the PDF version.
- Click on the ‘related items’ tab to access the explanatory statement.
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| Lawlex |
- Coverage: current bills only
- Type in the name of the bill in the ‘keywords’ field and the year in the ‘year from’ field. Set the jurisdiction to ‘ACT’ and the document type to ‘Bill’.
- Each bill on Lawlex has a ‘home page’ – click on the title of the bill to link to the latest version of the bill on the ACT Legislation Register. Also includes links to the explanatory statement and the Second Reading speech.
- Note: the subscription version of Lawlex provides a deeper archive of full text bills, information about the progress of bills through Parliament, alerts and more.
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| GovPubs |
- Contains information about print holdings of ACT bills in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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Information about Australian Capital Territory Bills
| Bills List |
- Information about the progress of bills in the current Assembly.
- Historical bills lists from 1989- are also available.
- Provided by Parliament.
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| Summary of Bills |
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| Bills Volume |
- “This document contains links to each Bill, explanatory statement and compatibility statement if applicable. It also contains links to relevant Scrutiny Committee reports, each amendment moved, supplementary explanatory statements, Hansard and the relevant Act.”
- Historical bills volumes from 2004- are also available.
- Provided by Parliament.
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| GovPubs |
- Contains information about various indexes to ACT bills, along with details of where to find them – some are online, others can be found in hard copy in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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