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Until 2022, no reference was made to the Chief Minister, the Leader of the Opposition or the Speaker of the Australian Capital Territory. This appeared to be an oversight after the ACT was granted self government. [2] A new Table of Precedence was gazetted on 1 September 2022 which included the ACT.
Succession to the throne in each of the Commonwealth realms is governed both by common law and statute. Under common law, the Crown was transmitted by male-preference primogeniture, [8] under which succession passed first to the monarch's or nearest dynast's legitimate sons (and to their legitimate issue) in order of birth, and subsequently to their daughters and their legitimate issue, again ...
Includes NSW Court of Appeal and NSW Court of Criminal Appeal NSW Reports : NSWR: 1960-1970 New South Wales Law Reports: State Reports NSW : SR NSW: 1901-1970: New South Wales Law Reports: 1901-1950: via AustLII: Law Reports (NSW) LR (NSW) 1856–1900: via AustLII: Weekly Notes (New South Wales) WN (NSW) 1884–1987: Neutral citation: NSWSC ...
AustLII was established in 1995. [1] [2] Founded as a joint program of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales law schools, its initial funding was provided by the Australian Research Council. [3] Its public policy purpose is to improve access to justice through access to legal information. [4]
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
Following a number of constitutional conventions during the 1890s to develop a federal nation from the several colonies, the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (Imp) was passed and came into force on 1 January 1901. Section 9 of this act contains Australia's constitution, to this day within a British act.
This template produces links to a variety of different legislation resources located on the [[AustLII]] site. Formatting is designed to be in compliance with the [[Australian Guide to Legal Citation]]. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Jurisdiction 1 In all cases jurisdiction will be one of Cth (for federal legislation) or ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas ...
There have been discussions about a co-operative system of regulation to be implemented between the states, conferring jurisdiction on the federal commonwealth in a similar manner done in the Corporations Act 2001. Property legislation in all states is grounded upon the Torrens principle of registration of title. [1]