(1) Any instrument that is not a regulation may, if the Attorney-General or the Chief Parliamentary Counsel so directs, be printed and published in accordance with section 4 of this Act, as if it were a regulation.
(2) An instrument shall not by virtue of its printing and publication under this section be a regulation for the purposes of this Act.
(3) The provisions of sections 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13 of this Act shall apply with respect to every instrument that is so printed and published as if it were a regulation for the purposes of this Act.
Compare: 1936 No 17 s 6A; 1970 No 100 s 2
Subsection (3) was amended, as from 19 December 1989, by section 2 Acts and Regulations Publication Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 83) by inserting “13”
.
Subsection (3) was amended, as from 1 January 2000, by section 2(1) Acts and Regulations Publication Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 111) by substituting “and 13”
for “13, and 15”
.