Sometimes Bills are referred to special committees, such as Select Committees, Standing Committees or Legislation Committees. This occurs after the Second Reading of the Bill. In each House, a Committee of the Whole house (with members from a range of parties) considers the Bill and this is when amendments can be made. In both State and Federal Parliament, Bills are considered by various Committees during their passage through Parliament. EMs are linked from the Bill homepageĮxplanatory statements are available from either the Act homepage or from the Bill homepage if not yet assented. Browse the alphabetical list of Bills by the name of the Bill. From 1996 EMs are available online under the Bills tab on the Parliament of Australia webpage.Some of these may be available on the shelf in the Legislation collection on Level 3 of the Beasley Law Library From 1982, the provision of EMs has been standard practice for Commonwealth Bills.Before 1982: use the Index to Explanatory Memoranda 1901-1982 on the Parliamentary Library webpage.If an EM is available it will be listed on the Bill homepage (click on the name of the Bill to see the Bill homepage).They are available for most Bills from 2000 onwards on the Bills tab on the Parliament of Western Australia website.
EMs were rarely published prior to 2000.Learn more about the history of EMs from this article ' Was There an EM?" from the Australian Parliamentary Library. Subsequently they are useful for statutory interpretation. Their purpose is to explain the Bill, clause by clause, initially when it is debated in parliament. Explanatory Memoranda (EM) are publications which accompany Commonwealth and State Bills.
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