Legislation (General) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 4 September 2025

Margaret Beazley AC KC

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

Michelle Rowland

Attorney‑General

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

Part 2—Continuing disallowance provisions

6 Continuing disallowance provisions

Schedule 1—Repeals

Legislation (General) Regulation 2015

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Legislation (General) Regulations 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Legislation Act 2003.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Legislation Act 2003.

Part 2—Continuing disallowance provisions

6  Continuing disallowance provisions

  For the purposes of subsection 57(5) of the Act, subsection 57(2) of the Act does not apply to the disallowance provisions in subsections 7(8) and (8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.

Note 1: Under subsection 57(2) of the Act, sections 42 to 48 of the Act are taken to apply to a document that is a legislative instrument to the exclusion of disallowance provisions in force before 1 January 2005 that applied in relation to the document.

Note 2: The effect of this section is that the disallowance provisions in subsections 7(8) and (8A) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 continue to apply instead of the disallowance provisions in sections 42 to 48 of the Legislation Act 2003.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Legislation (General) Regulation 2015

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.