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The NSW legislation website is the primary source for NSW legislation.
It is managed by the Parliamentary Counsel's Office.
The most frequently accessed titles this week are:
- Education and Care Services National Regulations (2011 SI 653)
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011 No 10
- Crimes Act 1900 No 40
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 No 203
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021
Click here to view the current allocation of the administration of Acts.
Click here to view historical versions of the allocation of the administration of Acts from 25 May 2001 to 4 April 2023.
PCO will observe the Good Friday public holiday on Friday 18 April 2025. The standard notification of instruments for that week will instead be on Thursday 17 April 2025. Instruments for notification should be requested via email by close of business on Tuesday 15 April 2025.
PCO will observe the Anzac Day public holiday on Friday 25 April 2025. The standard notification of instruments for that week will instead be on Thursday 24 April 2025. Instruments for notification should be requested via email by close of business on Tuesday 22 April 2025.
If you have any questions about these arrangements, please emailnotification@pco.nsw.gov.au.
The Parliamentary Counsel's Office is delighted to announce the NSW Government Gazette standalone website and portal was launched on 1 July 2024. Read morehere.
On 1 July 2023, PCO launched a new page to centralise the collection of statutory instruments that have been prepared by other agencies. Users can access this page via a link under the Statutory Instruments heading on theIn force page. The collection will be added to as new and amending instruments are notified. Agencies are invited to submit consolidated PDFs to the collection post amendment to ensure users have access to up-to-date versions of instruments as amended.
On 9 May 2023, the NSW Parliamentary Counsel’s Office launched the first version of the PCO Standard—a guide to legislative drafting in NSW that acts as both a style guide and a manual for drafters and editors.Click here for more information and to download a copy.
We have archived the special website page for NSWCOVID-19 legislation. On this page you can still find links to—
- Public health orders, including current and historical versions
- Environmental planning orders
- Acts of Parliament
- Regulations.
Information about the COVID-19 pandemic generally is available at the following links—
- Browse-by-# button—to improve navigation to legislation we’ve recently added a browse-by-# option to browse pages. Clicking on the# button will display titles beginning with a non-alphabetical character. Sorting by name on results containing a mix of titles will present non-alphabetical titles before alphabetical titles.
- Inline history notes—you can now use theTurn history notes on/off button forIn force andRepealed titles to display details of the history of change at the provision level 'inline' under the relevant provision.
- Breadcrumbs for search hits located in schedules—to make it easier to locate a search hit in the context of the whole title, breadcrumbs are now displayed in the same way (above the timeline) as search hits in the body of a title.
- Export functionality—theExport link on the right of the screen above the dark blue task bar facilitates downloading XML files, including bulk downloads, for theIn force andRepealed collections on the website. (Click the blue Help? button on the Export page for more information.)
- Search page point-in-time button—by clicking the enable/disablepoint-in-time buttons on the websiteSearch page, you can now decide if you want your search to return results as at a particular point-in-time date (default is the date you’re searching) or return results for all relevant versions of titles with no selected point-in time date. (Note that your selection sticks for all subsequent searches until you change it again.)
- My favourites—theMy favourites page (link on the main dark blue task bar) explains how you can save time navigating around the website by setting up your own favourites list of up to 10 of the titles you need to access regularly.
- Resizing the Contents pane—you can now drag theContents pane to your preferred width and have it stick at that width until you change it again.
- Most popular titles list—this list will now be a permanent feature at the top of ourNoticeboardand will be updated weekly with the titles most frequently accessed by our users each week.
- Timeline enhancement—thetimelinefunctionality for linking to other versions of a title now ‘remembers’ the provision being viewed and opens the selected version at the same provision.
It’s been a long wait but inline history notes (legislative annotations) functionality is now available on our website for theIn force andRepealed collections.
Please see ourFAQ for more detail about inline history notes functionality, including printing.
Inline history notes are generated automatically and, while we've undertaken extensive checking to ensure they’re located logically in the context of a title, it’s not possible to scrutinise in detail every title across theIn force andRepealed collections. Titles that have unusual structure, such as the Supreme Court Rules 1970, have proved particularly challenging so, at this stage, inline history notes for that title will not be available on the website, but we continue to work on refining them.
Please let us know via aFeedback email if you see history notes you think are in the wrong location.
We have recently completed a major backcapture project to scan a large amount of hard copy material held in our library’s collection. Unfortunately, we are not resourced at this time to upload this scanned material to the website for direct user access but we are happy to help with user enquiries and email backcaptured material we have saved on our network.
A full list of material in our backcaptured collection and details of how to contact us with an enquiry is available on theHistorical information page.