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Tabling procedures and guidelines

The Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly have different procedures for tabling papers.

Categories of papers

Papers tabled in the two houses generally fall into five main categories —

  • reports, such as annual reports, which are required by statute to be laid before both houses of Parliament
  • subsidiary legislation, such as regulations, rules, by-laws, local laws and other regulatory instruments that are required to be tabled under the Interpretation Act 1984 or other written law
  • reports of a parliamentary nature, such as committee reports, government responses to committee reports and reports on overseas travel
  • papers tabled by ministers or parliamentary secretaries during debates and
  • petitions.