Australian Legislation Statistics

New Legislation Statistics

There are 2 new legislative Bills, Acts and Regulations in 2009.

Legislative History from 1830 to 2008

From 1830 to 1969, a span of 139 years, there were approximately 2,612 Acts & Regulations introduced.
From 1970 to 2008, a span of 38 years, there were approximately 18,894 Acts & Regulations introduced.
From the research conducted by LawAlert, there are approximately 24,388 Acts & Regulations in force and counting.

Number of Acts and Regulations introduced by year from 1958 to 2008

Cumulative number of Acts and Regulations in force between 1870 and 2008

Number of all Legislative document changes between 1830 and 2008

Disclaimer Whilst care has been taken to filter out erroneous and irrelevant data to produce the above statistics, LawAlert does not guarantee the accuracy of the information presented. We may update these charts as more data becomes available.