Fixing Minor Errors and Clearing Out Old Rules

Statute Law Revision Bill 2025

1st House

2nd House

Law


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Effects of Bill:

This bill being passed means that:

Typographical and reference corrections across many Acts:\r\n\r\nAccident Compensation Act 1985\r\n\r\nAdministration and Probate Act 1958\r\n\r\nAustralian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012\r\n\r\nBusiness Franchise (Petroleum Products) Act 1979\r\n\r\nCemeteries and Crematoria Act 2003\r\n\r\nChild Employment Act 2003\r\n\r\nCorrections Act 1986\r\n\r\nCountry Fire Authority Act 1958\r\n\r\nCourt Services Victoria Act 2014\r\n\r\nDisability Service Safeguards Act 2018\r\n\r\nFamily Violence Protection Act 2008\r\n\r\nFisheries Act 1995\r\n\r\nHealth Complaints Act 2016\r\n\r\nMental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022\r\n\r\nSerious Offenders Act 2018\r\n\r\nStatus of Children Act 1974\r\n\r\nSurveying Act 2004\r\n\r\nTobacco Act 1987\r\n\r\nTransfer of Land Act 1958\r\n\r\nTriple Zero Victoria Act 2023\r\n\r\nYouth Justice Act 2024

Updated references to Commonwealth legislation:\r\n\r\nUpgrades references from the repealed Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth) to the current Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 (Cth) in multiple Acts, including:\r\n\r\nAgricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Victoria) Act 1994\r\n\r\nCorporations (Victoria) Act 1990\r\n\r\nGene Technology Act 2001\r\n\r\nTherapeutic Goods (Victoria) Act 2010, among others

Specific statutory clarifications: Fixes language in the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 to correctly use “the special Act” instead of “the specified Act” in relation to the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986. Changes references in the Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Act 2021 to correctly reflect the shift from "Alpine Resort Management Boards" to their successor, "Alpine Resorts Victoria"


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