User:LDOER/Temp/CONTENTS-revised 2012-05-20.odt

Structure of the modules

MODULE 1A: BACK TO BASICS

Section 1: What's it all about?

Section 2: What is legislation?

Section 3: Why do we draft as we do?

Section 4: How important is grammar?

MODULE 1B: GETTING GOING

Section 1: What are the stages in the preparation of legislation?

Section 2: What do we do with instructions?

MODULE 2: WORKING WITHIN LIMITS

Section 1: How do we work with the rules of interpretation?

Section 2: How do we work under the Interpretation Act?

Section 3: How do we work under the Constitution?

Section 4: How do we work with Fundamental Freedoms provisions?

MODULE 3: GETTING ORGANISED

Section 1: How should we structure legislation?

Section 2: How might we design a legislative plan?

MODULE 4A: MAKING THE RIGHT EXPRESSION

Section 1: How do we begin to compose legislative sentences?

Section 2: How should we express legislative sentences?

Section 3: How do we punctuate legislation?

Section 4: What can go wrong in legislative expression?

MODULE 4B: PUTTING ON THE STYLE

Section 1: How can we develop an effective legislative style?

MODULE 5A: TOPPING .....

Section 1: What do we include in preliminary provisions?

Section 2: How do we draft titles, preambles and words of enactment?

Section 3: How do we draft commencement and duration provisions?

Section 4: How do we draft interpretation clauses?

Section 5: When should we use purpose clauses?

Section 6: When should we use application provisions?

'''MODULE 5B: ....... AND TAILING'''

Section 1: What do we include in final provisions?

Section 2: How do we delegate powers to legislate?

Section 3: How should we repeal and amend legislation?

Section 4: When do we need saving and transitional provisions?

Section 5: How do we draft Schedules

MODULE 6: PARTICULAR CASES

Section 1: How do we draft compliance provisions?

Section 2: How do we draft subsidiary legislation?