Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am	amended	LW	legislation website	Sch	Schedule
Cl	clause	No	number	Schs	Schedules
Cll	clauses	p	page	Sec	section
Div	Division	pp	pages	Secs	sections
Divs	Divisions	Reg	Regulation	Subdiv	Subdivision
GG	Government Gazette	Regs	Regulations	Subdivs	Subdivisions
Ins	inserted	Rep	repealed	Subst	substituted

See also Limitation Act 1969, secs 57–62; and Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act 1982, sec 3.

Table of amending instruments

Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944 No 28. Assented to 8.12.1944. This Act has been amended as follows:

1962	No 42	Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) and Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act 1962. Assented to 14.12.1962. Date of commencement of sec 3 (1) (b), 8.12.1944, sec 3 (2).
1969	No 31	Limitation Act 1969. Assented to 9.4.1969. Date of commencement, 1.1.1971, sec 1 (2) and GG No 106 of 21.8.1970, p 331.
1970	No 52	Supreme Court Act 1970. Assented to 14.10.1970. Date of commencement, Part 9 excepted, 1.7.1972, sec 2 (1) and GG No 59 of 2.6.1972, p 2018.
1978	No 4	Law Reform (Nervous Shock) Amendment Act 1978. Assented to 20.2.1978.
1982	No 4	Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act 1982. Assented to 29.3.1982.
1984	No 150	Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (De Facto Relationships) Amendment Act 1984. Assented to 10.12.1984. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.7.1985, sec 2 (2) and GG No 98 of 28.6.1985, p 3001.
1987	No 102	Miscellaneous Acts (Transport Accidents Compensation) Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 12.6.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 1, except as provided by sec 2 (3), 1.7.1987, sec 2 (2).
1988	No 103	Miscellaneous Acts (Motor Accidents) Amendment Act 1988. Assented to 21.12.1988. Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944, 1.7.1989, sec 2 and GG No 73 of 16.6.1989, p 3500.
	No 131	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 3) 1988. Assented to 30.12.1988. Date of commencement of Sch 29, except as provided by sec 2 (4), assent, sec 2 (1).
1996	No 30	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996. Assented to 21.6.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1998	No 130	Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment (Dust Diseases and Other Matters) Act 1998. Assented to 26.11.1998. Date of commencement, 1.12.1998, sec 2 and GG No 165 of 27.11.1998, p 9016.
1999	No 4	Property (Relationships) Legislation Amendment Act 1999. Assented to 7.6.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 2.16, 28.6.1999, sec 2 and GG No 72 of 25.6.1999, p 4082.
2002	No 92	Civil Liability Amendment (Personal Responsibility) Act 2002. Assented to 28.11.2002. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 6.12.2002, sec 2 and GG No 249 of 6.12.2002, p 10529.
2005	No 28	Civil Procedure Act 2005. Assented to 1.6.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 5.25, 15.8.2005, sec 2 (1) and GG No 100 of 10.8.2005, p 4205.
2007	No 82	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2007. Assented to 7.12.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).

This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 30.9.1974, and published in GG No 121 of 4.10.1974, p 3922, declaring that the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996.

Sec 1	Am 1988 No 131, Sch 29.
Sec 2	Am 1962 No 42, sec 3 (1) (a); 1969 No 31, sec 2; 1982 No 4, sec 2; 1984 No 150, Sch 1 (1); 1987 No 102, Sch 1; 1988 No 103, Sch 1; 1988 No 131, Sch 29; 1998 No 130, Sch 2; 1999 No 4, Sch 2.16 [1]; 2005 No 28, Sch 5.25.
Sec 3	Rep 2002 No 92, Sch 3. Ins 2007 No 82, Sch 4.7.
Part 3	Rep 2002 No 92, Sch 3.
Sec 4	Am 1970 No 52, Second Sch; 1978 No 4, sec 2; 1984 No 150, Sch 1 (2); 1999 No 4, Sch 2.16 [2]–[5]. Rep 2002 No 92, Sch 3.