Template talk:Cite Legislation AU

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The link to AustLII breaks on "capital letter" sections, for example Supreme Court Act 1935 (WA) s 7A. AustLII expects the URL to end in 7a.html. Since the section should be cited using a capital letter, the template needs to be amended to lowercase the section "number." I don't know enough about the template language to fix that right now though. splintax ^(talk) 05:27, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed by using the lc parser function Alex Sims (talk) 10:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't managed to get this template to work for URLs like http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/claao1861n26270.pdf which contain "num_act" instead of "consol_act", and end in .pdf - I'm not sure if the documentation is unclear or if these acts are not supported? --Scott Davis ^Talk 06:24, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Holbrook railway line and Corowa railway line - num_act is undocumented ... lookin at it now, confused much. Dave Rave (talk) 23:10, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to cite http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/num_act/bdamr45vn9439/bdamr45vn9439.html with {{Cite Legislation AU |WA|num_act|bdamr45vn9439|Births, deaths and marriages registration}} which results in: Births, deaths and marriages registration (WA) — the URL is not correct. The short-name needs to be repeated at the end, with .html. I'd update the template, but I'm not quite sure this is a universal problem. Any ideas? Sam Wilson 08:11, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

a plain link to dbha1906211 now goes to dbha1906n53238 - how to fix ?? Dave Rave (talk) 08:51, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

a recent addition to David Berry Hospital points to classic. instead of www. Dave Rave (talk)

Since every jurisdiction in Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, alongside the federal government) has their own legislation register/index, shouldn't we be linking to those official sources rather than a third-party reproduction? This might require some changes to the template's form (etc. {{Cite Legislation AU|NSW|950fb057-125b-4bad-b236-4a9684309048}} → Civil Remedies for Serious Invasions of Privacy Bill 2020). ItsPugle (talk) 10:21, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I can't speak to the state registers, but one issue with using Comlaw is there is no permalink to the current version of an Act as amended, each revision of the Act gets its own permalink. Bryceroney (talk) 11:49, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe all the legislation is in those registers, but quite often one will elude me and then "austlii is your friend"; and I endorse Bryce's comment. SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬  at 04:43, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The template failed again when I tried to get it to output a plain-and-simple linked footnote reference. I ended up coding manually to get the required format, namely:

• Act in italics
• jurisdiction in roman
• a link to Austlii or jurisdiction register via a box-and-arrow icon.

This is not difficult. Two complications arise, but they are easily overcome.

1. Remove the superfluous number from the footnote

By default, an unwanted number in square brackets (_^[1]) will appear at the end of the footnote, as in Reference no. 1 below.

A little trick easily removes it. In Edit view, immediately after the URL (i.e., before the closing square bracket) add a space followed by a non-breaking space:

2. Make space to clear italics in the body text

If the Act's title is included in the body of the article, italicising may cause the last character (in the enactment year) to impinge on the footnote number that follows it, as in:

... blah blah. The Port Augusta and Northern Railway Act 1862^[2] was assented to on 18th December.

This can be countered by adding a space after the last character:

... blah blah. The Port Augusta and Northern Railway Act 1862 ^[3] was assented to on 18th December.

Citation for an Act not listed by Austlii

The above formatting can be applied equally to an Act that isn't listed by at Austlii; for example:

Sydney Railway Company Act 1849 ^[4]

Cheers, Simon. SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬  at 13:29, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be a good idea for this template to add "via Austlii" at the end of generated reference to indicate where the generated link goes to. What do people think of this idea and are there any uses of this template which would make this a problem? Safes007 (talk) 03:55, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While editing Online Safety Amendment, I tried to use this template to cite the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 on AustLII as so: Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 (Cth) (which usually works), but the link in the citation does not work when clicking it. I thought the legislation was too new and AustLII hadn't updated properly but the bill is on their database so I think should be able to access it.
Is there anything that can be done with the template to fix this error? Qwerty123M (talk) 04:39, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am having a similar issue to my last post on this Talk page. When I try to cite Explanatory Notes for the Aboriginal Languages Bill 2017 the link results in a 404 error page. I am trying to add this template for a citation the Aboriginal Languages Act 2017 article. I tried to cite the Explanatory Notes as so, Explanatory Memorandum, Aboriginal Languages Bill 2017 (NSW) which resulted in an erroneous page being navigated to.
Is there anything that can be done to fix this issue? Qwerty123M (talk) 06:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added support for the following citation:

• Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 (Cth) sch8

i.e. schedules in regulations that happen to have this exact form. Since I don't know in general how AustLII constructs URLs, how to cite Australian law, or if other types of legislation even have schedules, I haven't extended it any further, and I also don't think it's appropriate to document such a half-baked feature. I wanted this for one citation at Absinthe, so I boldly added it; others with better knowledge may adapt and improve it. Hairy Dude (talk) 20:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I need help on citing a schedule. I need to cite section 183 of schedule 1 of Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (s 183 of the schedule, not of the act). I need it for a citation in Contingent fee. I'm trying to cite https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/vic/consol_act/lpulaa2014406/sch1.html {{Cite Legislation AU|Vic|act|lpulaa2014406|Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014|sch=1}} . I cant seem to get it right. Profitofpan (talk) 14:28, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting two issues. (I may come back to fix them later, but I'll need to check I know what I'm doing first):

• The TemplateData is on the template page, but I'm pretty sure it's meant to go on the documentation page when there is one.
• It contains markup which isn't functioning (specifically, attempted wikilinks), and I think it's supposed to have nothing in but plain text. (Now fixed.)

It should be fixable by cutting and pasting to the /doc page, provided nothing else gets cut in the process that shouldn't be . . . Musiconeologist (talk) 11:22, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I've now removed the wikilinks—it's JSON not wikitext, so they don't do anything anyway. I've also reworded the description there to be more concise and less like a legal definition. Musiconeologist (talk) 14:10, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Further update: I've now also moved the TemplateData to the documentation page, and put it where I believe to be the usual place. There's a {{TemplateData header}} that should be added too, I think, though from what I've seen elsewhere it's tricky to get that looking as though it belongs there. Musiconeologist (talk) 15:02, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]