Current Legislation

General Notes :

The assignment of the administration of an enactment to a Minister, and the department responsible to that Minister in relation to that enactment, may be viewed at legislation.tas.gov.au/search by searching in the current Administrative Arrangements Order for the enabling Act or, in the case of an enabling Act made since the making of that Order, the administration provision of that new Act. An unofficial administration list, arranged by Act and updated with new Acts, may also be viewed at Administrative arrangements.

The Minister responsible for a portfolio is indicated on the Tasmanian Parliament website : Cabinet.

The provisions of Acts and Statutory Rules may be viewed in full at legislation.tas.gov.au/search .  For enactments yet to be commenced the provisions may be viewed by toggling on the As Made button.

Bills before Parliament : 

• annual lists of Bills introduced
• list of Bills currently before Parliament

 

Indexes to the legislation of Tasmania : 

• PDF format - updated at least quarterly
• Lists all current Acts with their amendment history and subordinate legislation
• Commencement information for principal legislation and latest amendments, including uncommenced amendments
• Expiry information for Statutory Rules
• Current Bills in Parliament are noted under Acts to be affected

• PDF format - updated annually

 

Administrative arrangements : 

• Alphabetical list of all Acts in force, showing the responsible Minister and Department
• Compiled using the current Adminstrative Arrangements Order (SR 2021 No. 25)
• Also includes new Principal Acts which have received Royal Assent since the most recent Order was made

 

Statutory rules : 

• includes sunset repeals under the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992
• includes rescission by an Act or other legislation which is yet to take effect

• items repealed in the last two years
• also lists any postponements of repeals which are currently in force

• excluded from the operation of the Rules Publication Act 1953

• disallowed by Parliament

• links to pages on other Tasmanian government websites
• although the instruments listed here are made under current Tasmanian Acts, they are not on the legislation website becasue they are not statutory rules required to be published under the Rules Publication Act 1953

 

 

 

Amendment and reprint notations for certain Acts from 1826

Acts numerically listed, with "repealed by" references if repealed or expired