The purpose of this list is to indicate which national legislation is relevant to the events dealt with by the organisation that records information.

All legislation with an impact on the human rights situation should be included, such as national law, provincial or state law, municipal law, military regulations, state of siege decrees and martial law.

This Micro-thesaurus is used for field 2154 National Legislation in the Act format.

Example (1)

CODE TERM

01  Commonwealth 

01 01  Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 
01 02  Judiciary Act 1903 
01 03  Migration Act 1958 
01 04  Family Law Act 1975 
01 05  Racial Discrimination Act 1975 
01 06  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 
01 07  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 
01 08  Freedom of Information Act 1982 
01 09  Sex Discrimination Act 1984 
01 10  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 
01 11  Privacy Act 1988 
01 12  Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Act 1991 
01 13  Social Security Act 1991 
01 14  Disability Discrimination Act 1992 
01 15  Migration Reform Act 1992 
01 16  Native Title Act 1993 
01 17  Evidence Act 1995 
01 18  Workplace Relations Act 1996 
01 19  National Firearms Program Implementation Act 1997 
01 20  National Firearms Program Implementation Act 1998 
 
02  States & Territories - Australian Capital Territory 
02 01  Crimes Act 1900 
02 02  Insane Persons and Inebriates (Committal and Detention) Act 1936 
02 03  Education Act 1937

(1) The terms are extracted from: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia. "Section 5: Human Rights in Australia." Human Rights Explained. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia, 6 Dec. 2001. http://www.hreoc.gov.au/hr_explained/hr_in_australia.html