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Grammatical, Formatting and Spelling Error Corrections Act (2014)
« on: September 01, 2017, 11:08:50 PM »
Grammatical, Formatting and Spelling Error Corrections Act (2014)

An Act to enable authorised authorities to efficiently correct stylistic and linguistic errors in passed pieces of legislation, and to ensure the validity of enacting clauses.

Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Grand Chancellor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short Title

(1) This Act may be referred to as the Grammatical, Formatting and Spelling Error Corrections Act (2014).

Correcting Errors

(2) The Grand Chancellor, with the advice and consent of the Speaker of the Regional Assembly, may, by Order, alter or correct grammatical, formatting and spelling errors in passed legislation without requiring to pass an amendment act.

(3) Such alterations or corrections may be made provided that such changes are non-substantive in that they do not in any way affect the interpretation of the content of a piece of legislation.

(4) A correction may be publicly submitted to the Grand Chancellor by any member of the Regional Assembly.

(5) The Grand Chancellor is required to present a draft Order to the Regional Assembly forty-eight (48) hours prior to the Order taking effect.

(6) If the correction is undisputed, then it shall automatically take effect after the notice period.

(7) Such changes may not be made to the Constitution of the Independent Order,  the Criminal Code (2013) and the Roleplay Rules (2017).

Disputing Changes

(8) Any member of the Regional Assembly may dispute an alteration or correction if they feel that the change is:
(a) Substantive enough in that it affects the interpretation of the legislation; or
(b) itself stylistically or linguistically incorrect.

(9) For a member to dispute an alteration or correction, they must submit a motion in the same topic as the draft Order. The Motion shall then be immediately voted on by the Assembly.

Enacting Clause

(13) Where the Right Honourable Senate carried a motion on the day of the 9 July 2014 to retrospectively apply an enacting clause to all legislation, this act shall ensure that such changes are validated by law, and shall, where not already applied, authorise the Speaker of the Senate to apply the enacting clause to all proposed and passed legislation.

(14) Furthermore, all enacting clauses, and text within acts, unless otherwise specified, shall be deemed to be equal in status, regardless of the gender-specific pronoun used.

Derogations

(15) Changes may not be made to alter the variation of English language used in an act, save for ensuring a consistent use of it, and so long as the act is written in a recognised variation. The recognised variations of English are:
(15.1) American English;
(15.2) Australian English;
(15.3) British English; and
(15.4) Canadian English.
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