Links to sources for Acts, with scope notes and search tips. See also which version of the legislation do I need?
Current Queensland Acts
| Queensland Legislation (OQPC) |
- Browse by title or search full text.
- Current online reprints are now authorised.
- See also ‘current annotations‘, which includes details of recent amendments, uncommenced amendments and proposed amendments.
- Provided by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.
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| Lawlex |
- Type in the name of the Act in the ‘keywords’ field and the year in the ‘year from’ field. Set the jurisdiction to ‘QLD’ and the document type to ‘principal Act’.
- Each Act on Lawlex has a ‘home page’ – click on the title of the Act to link to the current version of the Act on the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel website. The Act home page also includes links to the Second Reading speech and explanatory note.
- You can also browse legislation by subject – scroll down past the alphabetic index to find the subject index.
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| AustLII |
- Browse by title or use the ‘name search’ to find current Acts by title.
- Use the ‘database search‘ to run a full text search across all current Queensland Acts.
- Check the update status for legislation page to see when the database was last updated.
- Once you are viewing an individual section of an Act, click on ‘note-up’ to find cases considering that section.
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| Legify |
- Type in the name of the Act – matching titles will appear as you type. Click on the relevant item to be taken directly to that Act on the Office of Queensland Parliamentary Counsel website.
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Queensland Acts as passed
| Queensland Legislation (OQPC) |
- Coverage: 1963-
- Browse by year. Acts are listed chronologically, i.e. by Act number.
- To run a full text search, choose ‘Acts as passed’ from the menu titled ‘select a collection to search in’.
- Provided by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.
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| AustLII – numbered Acts |
- Coverage: 2004-
- Browse by title or use the ‘name search’.
- To run a full text search, use the ‘database search‘.
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| AustLII – historical Acts |
- Coverage: 1867-1951
- Browse by title or use the ‘name search’.
- To run a full text search, click on ‘database search’ in the top menu.
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| OzCase Land Legislation |
- Coverage: 1833-1910
- Includes land legislation applicable to Queensland (including selected UK and NSW Acts)
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Point in time Queensland Acts (historical versions)
| Queensland Legislation (OQPC) |
- Coverage: 1994-
- Click on the first letter of the Act title – all the Acts beginning with that letter are listed in a table. Scroll down to find the Act, then click on the ‘document’ icon in the last column of the table to find the historical versions of the Act.
- If the Act has been repealed, use the repealed legislation page, click on the first letter of the Act title, then scroll down to find the Act. The historical versions are numbered but not dated. “See endnote 4 (Table of reprints) of the last reprint in the list for the effective date of that and previous reprints.”
- To run a full text search, choose either ‘Current legislation (historical versions)’ or ‘Repealed legislation’ from the menu titled ‘select a collection to search in’.
- Provided by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.
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| OzCase statutes reprints |
- Coverage: selected Acts (ongoing project)
- Scanned copies of reprinted Queensland Acts, including reprints from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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| OzCase Queensland Acts 1828-1936 |
- Coverage: Public Acts. “All statutes have been reprinted with amendments incorporated so as to constitute a complete statement of the law as at January 1, 1937.”
- See also Local, Personal and Private Acts 1828-1936.
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Repealed Queensland Acts
| Queensland Legislation (OQPC) |
- Click on the first letter of the Act title, then scroll to find the Act.
- To run a full text search, choose ‘Repealed legislation’ from the menu titled ‘select a collection to search in’.
- Includes historical versions of repealed Acts.
- See also ‘repealed annotations‘, which contains alphabetical and chronological tables of repealed Acts.
- Provided by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.
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Queensland legislation – tables and indexes
Research guides
| Finding Queensland legislation & information |
- Published by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.
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| Finding legislation |
- Guide to researching legislation, including how to find legislation by topic, judicial consideration of legislation and finding commentary on legislation.
- Provided by the Queensland University of Technology Library.
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| Law online tutorial: legislation |
- Introduction to all aspects of legislation research, including the legislative process, how to find legislation on the Queensland legislation website (video), checking for currency and locating judicial consideration.
- Provided by the University of Queensland Library
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Last updated: 5 April 2014
