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Title: Delegated legislation factsheet
About: A plain language guide to delegated or subordinate legislation.
Author: Parliamentary Counsel's Office[NSW]
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Title: Types of delegated legislation in New South Wales : factsheet
About: Defines types of delegated legislation in NSW, including by-laws, codes of practice, environment planning instruments, guidelines, letters patent, orders, ordinances, proclamations, regulations. Rules, statutory instruments and statutory rules.
Author: Parliamentary Counsel's Office [NSW]
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Title: Australian legal system - Hot Topics series no 60
About: Origin of our legal system; influences on it, and how statute law and common law is created. Covers criminal and civil law; the role of government, legislature, judiciary and the legal profession; how to find Acts and cases. Provides a list of useful websites, books and other publications in the area.
Author: Robin Banks
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Title: Cases and legislation for NSW and Australia
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Books in public libraries

Title: Introducing the law. 7th edition
About: Origins of the Australian and British legal systems, Australia's system of government and court system; the role of the parliament and the courts in law-making; dispute resolution, and law reform. Chapter 8 has a useful overview of criminal and civil procedures.
Author: Heilbronn, Gary N. et al
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Australian legal system - Hot Topics series no 60
About: Origin of our legal system; influences on it, and how statute law and common law is created. Covers criminal and civil law; the role of government, legislature, judiciary and the legal profession; how to find Acts and cases. Provides a list of useful websites, books and other publications in the area.
Author: Robin Banks
Where: Check your public library.
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Lawyers' Tools

Title: Legislation in force
About: Lists all NSW public and private Acts in force, principal Statutory Instruments (Rules, Regulations, Orders etc), Environmental Planning Instruments. Has a table of laws of other jurisdictions and other government instruments that apply in NSW and a table of Acts repealed 1986 onwards, and tables of unproclaimed or tied legislation. - LIAC/NQ348.944028/7A
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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