LLB426 Legislative Drafting
This course trains students to understand and be competent in the processes of drafting legislation. It emphasises the importance of detail and grammar to the effectiveness of a legislation’s control over citizen behaviour in respect of the legislation’s subject matter
The course will enable students:
- Understand the role of drafting in the legislative process
- Correctly identify the type of legislative document required to meet particular policy objectives
- Competently draft legislation and subsidiary legislation
- Structure And Format of Bills and Acts
- Writing Legislative Sentences
- Drafting Compliance Provisions
- Drafting Titles, Preambles, And Words of Enactment
- Drafting Commencement and Duration Provisions
- Drafting Interpretation Provisions
- Drafting Application Provisions?
- Drafting Amending Provisions, Saving Other Transitional Provisions
- Drafting Subsidiary Legislation
- Drafting Schedules
LLB Law with Public Policy core
Offered: Semester One
Course Type: Seminar, Lecture, Experiential