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Legislation: Making legislation

This Guide provides information on how to find Acts, Delegated Legislation, Bills, Parliamentary documents and extrinsic materials for Australian jurisdictions. It also provides information on how to keep up to date with Legislation.

The Commonwealth legislative process

The legislative process is similar for both Commonwealth and Western Australian legislation.

For more information on the legislative process click on the link below the diagram.

A flow chart detailing the Legislative Process. If you can not see this chart, please contact a Law Librarian.

From: Making Laws. Infosheet no. 7. Australia. House of Representatives. Available here

Glossary

More information on the legislative process

More detailed information about the legislative process can be found here:

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