A bill is a proposed law. See ‘The Assembly and its work – law making‘ (NT Legislative Assembly Information Paper No.6) for information on how bills are considered and passed by Parliament.
Note that Northern Territory bills are given ‘serial numbers’.
Sources of Northern Territory Bills
| NT Register of Legislation |
- Coverage: full text 2005- brief information 1995-
- Browse bills by session or by sponsor, or browse bills currently being debated. For earlier sessions, there is only brief information about the bill, such as the sponsor and key dates in the bill’s passage through Parliament (once you have located the record for the item, click on the arrow next to the word ‘Bill’).
- Alternatively, use the ‘All Records’ section, which aims to provide links to the Act, bill, explanatory statement and Second Reading speech all in one place (note: coverage varies and some items do not include links to all types of material). Information is listed under principal Acts, i.e. amendments are listed under the Act they are amending.
- Provided by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.
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| AustLII |
- Coverage: 1998-
- Contains the first print of the bill (i.e. as first introduced into Parliament).
- Browse by title or by year.
- Use ‘name search’ to search the titles of bills.
- Use ‘database search’ to search the full text of bills.
- Click on the ‘download’ tab once you have located the bill to access the PDF version (if available)
- Click on the ‘related items’ tab to access the explanatory statement and / or Second Reading speech (where available on AustLII).
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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 ‘NT’ 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 bill on the Northern Territory Register of Legislation. 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 NT bills in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries, which may be useful if you need an older bill that is not available online. Also includes brief details of parliamentary arrangements before self-government.
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Information about Northern Territory Bills
| GovPubs |
- Contains information about various indexes to NT bills, along with details of where to find them. Some are available online, others are only available in hard copy in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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| In Your Parliament |
- Summaries of bills and ministerial statements from October 2001-
- Provided by the NT Parliament.
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| Terminology used in Parliament |
- Glossary: includes terms relating to the passage of a bill through Parliament. Provided by the NT Parliament.
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| History of the NT Parliament |
- Brief history of the Northern Territory Parliament, including arrangements in place prior to self-government (1 July 1978).
- For a more detailed account, see ‘History of Administration in the Northern Territory‘, Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, Information Paper No. 2.
- Provided by the NT Parliament.
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