Linking to this website
Contents
- Overview
- Mapping special characters in legislation titles
- Removing commas and apostrophes from legislation titles
- Creating links to Bills
- Creating links to consolidated Acts
- Creating links to consolidated Regulations and Rules
- Creating links to consolidated Policies
- Creating links to consolidated proclamations and notices
- Creating links to as enacted Acts
- Creating links to as made Regulations and Rules
- Creating links to as made Policies
- Creating links to as made proclamations and notices
Overview
Hypertext links are created in XHTML using the anchor tag in the following form:
<a href="link-destination">link text</a>
The link-destination specifies the location of the destination page. The South Australian Legislation website application decodes link destinations based on the legislation title and the websites underlying folder structure.
The following sections describe how to create links to the various types of legislation that are published on the South Australian legislation website.
Mapping special characters in legislation titles
All links to legislation titles on the South Australian website require the legislation title to be present in the link. Some legislation titles may contain characters that should not be included in the link. The following table provides mappings for those characters:
| Character | Mapping |
| and
(em-dash) and (en-dash) |
" - " (spaces included before and after the hyphen)
eg. Air Transport (Route LicensingPassenger Services) Act 2002 becomes Air Transport (Route Licensing - Passenger Services) Act 2002. |
| & | " and " (spaces included before and after the word "and")
ANZ Executors & Trustee Company (South Australia) Limited (Transfer of Business) Act 1996 becomes ANZ Executors and Trustee Company (South Australia) Limited (Transfer of Business) Act 1996. |
| / | " " (single space character)
Bank Merger (National/BNZ) Act 1997 becomes Bank Merger (National BNZ) Act 1997. |
Removing commas and apostrophes from legislation titles
Legislation titles may include a comma or an apostrophe but these must be ignored for the purposes of creating a link. This is because there are problems with opening PDF files from Internet Explorer with Acrobat Readers if the folder name includes a comma or an apostrophe.
Creating links to Bills
The link-destination for Bills has the following forms:
/LZ/B/[Current|Archive]/[item-title].aspx for government bills; and
/LZ/B/[Current|Archive]/[item-title]_[members name].aspx for private
bills.
Current is specified for bills of the current session and Archive is specified for all other bills. The [members name] must be exactly as written in the particular Bill.
Creating links to consolidated Acts
The link-destination for consolidated Acts has the following form:
/LZ/C/A/[item-title].aspx
For example:
/LZ/C/A/Abattoirs Act 1911.aspx
Creating links to consolidated Regulations and Rules
The link-destination for consolidated regulations and rules has the following form:
/LZ/C/R/[item-title].aspx
For example:
/LZ/C/R/Ambulance Services Regulations 1993.aspx
Creating links to consolidated Policies
The link-destination for consolidated policies has the following form:
/LZ/C/POL/[item-title].aspx
For example:
/LZ/C/POL/Aquaculture (Standard Lease Conditions) Policy 2005.aspx
Creating links to consolidated proclamations and notices
The link-destination for consolidated proclamations and notices has the following form:
/LZ/C/P/[item-title]_[gazette-reference].aspx
Where [gazette-reference] has the form [day].[month].[year] p [page-number]. The [day] and [month] components are not zero padded. The [year] must be 4 digits.
For example:
/LZ/C/P/Electrical Products (Part 2 Declarations) Proclamation 2004_23.9.2004 p 3693.aspx
Creating links to as enacted Acts
The link-destination for as enacted Acts has the following form:
/LZ/V/A/[year]/[item-title]_[act-number].aspx
Where [year] is the year the Act was made and [act-number] is the number of the act in its year.
For example:
/LZ/V/A/2003/Appropriation Act 2003_27.aspx
Creating links to as made Regulations and Rules
The link-destination for as made regulation or rule has the following form:
/LZ/V/R/[year]/[item-title]_[regulation-number].aspx
Where [year] is the year the regulation or rule was made and [regulation-number] is the number of the regulation or rule in its year.
For example:
/LZ/V/R/2004/Adoption Regulations 2004_148.aspx
Creating links to as made Policies
The link-destination for as made policies have the following form:
/LZ/V/POL/[year]/[item-title]_[gazette-reference].aspx
Where [year] is the year the policy was made and [gazette-reference] has the form [day].[month].[year] p [page-number]. The [day] and [month] components are not zero padded. The [year] must be 4 digits.
For example:
/LZ/V/POL/2005/Aquaculture (Standard Lease Conditions) Policy 2005_3.11.2005 p 3865.aspx
Creating links to as made proclamations and notices
The link-destination for as made proclamations have the following form:
/LZ/V/P/[year]/[item-title]_[gazette-reference].aspx
Where [year] is the year the proclamation or notice was made and [gazette-reference] has the form [day].[month].[year] p [page-number]. The [day] and [month] components are not zero padded. The [year] must be 4 digits.
For example:
/LZ/V/P/2005/Aboriginal Lands Parliamentary Standing Committee Act (Commencement)
Proclamation 2003_18.9.2003 p 3599.aspx