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LEGISLATION ACT 2019 - SECT 71

How and when PCO must publish legislation and consolidations of legislation

71 How and when PCO must publish legislation and consolidations of legislation

1 The PCO must electronically publish the following things at the following times:

What is required to be published When it must be published
Bills As soon as practicable after they are introduced
Amendments to Bills As soon as practicable after the amendments are released
Acts As soon as practicable after they are enacted
Secondary legislation drafted by the PCO As soon as practicable after the legislation is made
Minimum legislative information for secondary legislation drafted by the PCO As soon as practicable after the legislation is made
Consolidations of Acts As soon as practicable after the Acts are amended
Consolidations of secondary legislation that is drafted by the PCO As soon as practicable after the legislation is amended
2 The PCO may also publish those things in printed form and make them available in the way notified to the public.
3 Legislation or proposed legislation is sufficiently published for the purposes of this Act (for any period during which it is not practicable to publish it electronically) if it is only published and made available in the way set out in subsection (2).
4 Minimum legislative information is sufficiently published for the purposes of this Act if the secondary legislation containing that information (as required at the time of its publication) is published by the PCO under this Act.
Note: 2012 No 119 s 6(2), (3), (5), 21(1)



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