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How to read legislation , a beginner s guide Parliamentary Counsel s Office Western Australia Edition 1, May 2011 Government of Western Australia Department of the Attorney General State of Western Australia This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the Attorney General for Western Australia. How to read legislation , a beginner s guide - i - Contents 1. Introduction ........................................ ................................1 2. Laws, a broad overview ........................................ .............1 3. What is legislation ? ........................................ .................2 4. Common law (aka case law) ........................................ ......4 5. Some general observations about reading legislation .

How to read legislation, a beginner’s guide - 3 - person most often given power by WA’s Acts to make subsidiary legislation4. Subsidiary legislation does not have the words ‘subsidiary

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