TABL1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Legislature, Legal Writing, Deductive Reasoning

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Taxation and Business Law
• Course: TABL1710
• Professor: All

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Legislature: legislative power is the power to make law, and in australia is exercised by the. Federal parliament and the various state and territory parliaments: the sup(cid:396)e(cid:373)a(cid:272)(cid:455) of pa(cid:396)lia(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s that it is the (cid:858)so(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374) la(cid:449)(cid:373)ake(cid:396)(cid:859) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) Parliament in operation: proposal, drafting of bill, lower house, upper house, royal assent, commencement. Pressure to change the law: public servants, lobby groups, government policy, law reform body, media, courts. Three readings of a bill: first reading, second reading and debate, committee, third reading. From the date specified in the act, or. A date to be fixed by proclamation, or. If the act is silent as to its commencement: From the date of royal assent (state acts) or. 28 days after royal assent (federal acts: parliament has the power to declare an act to be retrospective, but this power is used sparingly. If after the new parliament is appointed the deadlock reoccurs, the governor-