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This NSW legislation website uses some different terminology to
that you may be familiar with on the old legislation website. There
is also new terminology for functionality and features not
available on the old website.
The table below sets out these differences and includes tips and
links to related FAQs.
Old website |
New website |
Notes |
Browse (page) |
In force (page)
Repealed (page)
|
- In force and Repealed landing pages include a browse-by-year
option as well as a browse-by-alphabet option.
- Links are at the bottom of the dark blue banner at the top of
the screen.
- See our FAQ What's happened to the
Browse page?
|
LegInfo (page) |
Tables
(page) |
- Page has links to run the same set of current, point-in-time
and cumulative tables available on the old website
- Link is at the bottom of the dark blue banner at the top of the
screen.
- See our FAQ What's happened to the
LegInfo tab?
|
n/a |
Show rows |
|
n/a |
Timeline (point-in-time
versions) |
- Provides quick access to historical versions of in force and
repealed titles and can be used to run comparisons between
versions.
- Hide/show the timeline by clicking the
Timeline button.
- See our FAQ What's the timeline
for? and associated links.
|
Historical versions and Historical
notes |
Legislative
history |
- Includes details of a title's legislative history and what has
changed over time—the list of versions, details of the original
legislation and amending legislation, history notes and creation
history are on this page.
- Link is via the large Legislative history
button on the pale blue task bar.
- See our FAQ What is the
legislative history?
|
Historical versions |
Table of versions
|
|
Table of amending instruments |
Original legislation
Amending legislation
|
- Lists of the original principal legislation and all amending
legislation for a title with relevant dates and commencement
information.
- Appears on the Legislative history
page—collapse and expand by clicking the arrows.
- See our FAQ What is the
legislative history?
|
Table of amendments |
History
notes |
- List of all amendments to provisions in a title.
- Appears on the Legislative history
page—collapse and expand by clicking the arrows.
- See our FAQ What is the
legislative history?
|
n/a |
Creation
history |
- List all the documents and dates for the original as made
legislation.
- Appears at the bottom of the Legislative
history page.
- See our FAQ What is the
legislative history?
|
Last updated 15 September 2020 at 08:10