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Legislation

Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 
does not  include how to cite Australian Legislation hence 
Stuhmcke, Annita Legal referencing. 2nd ed. Sydney: Butterworths, 2001
has been used in the creation of the legislation section of this guide.

Statutes

• ^{note number}
• Short title
• Year 
• (Jurisdiction) ie. (Cth), (ACT), (NSW), (NT), (Qld), (SA), (Tas), (Vic), (WA)
  If applicable
• Section or Sections eg. s 63 or ss 63-54

⁷Boundary Fences Act 1908 (Tas) s 8

⁸Airports Act 1996 (Cth) ss 2-4

Statute accessed from a website

When legislation is accessed from the web  include the URL  enclosed in <> and the date that the legislation was accessed enclosed in  ( ) as shown below.

 ⁸Building Act 2000 (Tas) s 37 <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/consol_act/ba200091/s37.html> (3 December 2004)

The referencing recommendations in this guide are based on the Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Please refer to Chapters 16 and 17 of that manual for further examples.