Gives a brief overview of how to work with the Queensland Office of the Queensland Parliamentary in order to draft new legislation.

The Queensland Legislation Handbook outlines relevant policies, recommendations, information, and procedures for the realisation of policy in the form of Acts of Parliament or subordinate legislation. The handbook is particularly designed to help departmental policy or instructing officers to work effectively with the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel (OQPC). This handbook outlines what is needed in drafting instructions for Acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation. Various other procedural requirements associated with the legislative development process are also included.

This publication outlines relevant policies, recommendations, information, and procedures for the making of law in the form of Acts of Parliament or subordinate legislation. It is particularly designed to help departmental policy or instructing officers work effectively with the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel (OQPC). This handbook outlines what is needed in drafting instructions for Acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation. Various other procedures associated with developing legislation are also included.

Home page of the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. The OQPC is responsible for drafting all Queensland Acts and subordinate legislation. In addition to its legislative drafting and advisory role, OQPC is also responsible for preparing reprints of Queensland legislation and other legislative information publications. This web site contains the Queensland legislation database created and maintained by OQPC since 1991. The database provides electronic access to consolidated versions of Queensland Acts and subordinate legislation, as well as to Queensland Acts as passed from June 1991 and all subordinate legislation published in the subordinate legislation series from 1 July 1991. Other information of interest and assistance to OQPC's clients and users of legislation is also included on the web site including Bills introduced into Parliament.

Aims to assist policy officers developing new legislation by explaining what the fundamental legislative principles are and how to identify and resolve related issues.

This book constitutes the first thorough academic analysis of legislative drafting. By placing the study of legislation and its principles within the paradigm of Flyvberg's phronetic social sciences, it offers a novel approach which breaks the tradition of unimaginative past descriptive reiterations of drafting conventions. Instead of prescribing rules for legislation, it sets out to identify efficacy as the main aim of the actors in the policy, legislative and drafting processes, and effectiveness as the main goal in the drafting of legislation. Through the prism of effectiveness as synonymous with legislative quality, the book explores the stages of the drafting process; guides the reader through structure and sections in their logical sequence, and introduces rules for drafting preliminary, substantive and final provisions. Special provisions, comparative legislative drafting and training for drafters complete this thorough analysis of the drafting of legislation as a tool for regulation. Instead of teaching the reader which drafting rules prevail, the book explores the reasons why drafting rules have come about, thus encouraging readers to understand what goal is served by each rule and how each rule applies. The book is aimed at academics and practitioners who draft or use statutory law in the common or civil law traditions.