Template talk:Cite Legislation AU
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The link to AustLII breaks on "capital letter" sections, for exampleSupreme Court Act 1935 (WA) s 7A. AustLII expects the URL to end in 7a.html
. Since the section should be cited using a capital letter, the template needs to be amended to lowercase the section "number." I don't know enough about the template language to fix that right now though. splintax (talk) 05:27, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't managed to get this template to work for URLs like http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/claao1861n26270.pdf which contain "num_act" instead of "consol_act", and end in .pdf - I'm not sure if the documentation is unclear or if these acts are not supported? --Scott Davis Talk 06:24, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to cite http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/num_act/bdamr45vn9439/bdamr45vn9439.html with {{Cite Legislation AU |WA|num_act|bdamr45vn9439|Births, deaths and marriages registration}}
which results in: Births, deaths and marriages registration (WA) — the URL is not correct. The short-name needs to be repeated at the end, with .html
. I'd update the template, but I'm not quite sure this is a universal problem. Any ideas? Sam Wilson 08:11, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
a plain link to dbha1906211 now goes to dbha1906n53238 - how to fix ?? Dave Rave (talk) 08:51, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Since every jurisdiction in Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, alongside the federal government) has their own legislation register/index, shouldn't we be linking to those official sources rather than a third-party reproduction? This might require some changes to the template's form (etc. {{Cite Legislation AU|NSW|950fb057-125b-4bad-b236-4a9684309048}} → Civil Remedies for Serious Invasions of Privacy Bill 2020). ItsPugle (talk) 10:21, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The template failed again when I tried to get it to output a plain-and-simple linked footnote reference. I ended up coding manually to get the required format, namely:
This is not difficult. Two complications arise, but they are easily overcome.
By default, an unwanted number in square brackets ([1]) will appear at the end of the footnote, as in Reference no. 1 below.
A little trick easily removes it. In Edit view, immediately after the URL (i.e., before the closing square bracket) add a space followed by a non-breaking space:
If the Act's title is included in the body of the article, italicising may cause the last character (in the enactment year) to impinge on the footnote number that follows it, as in:
This can be countered by adding a space after the last character:
The above formatting can be applied equally to an Act that isn't listed by at Austlii; for example:
Cheers, Simon. SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬 at 13:29, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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I think it would be a good idea for this template to add "via Austlii" at the end of generated reference to indicate where the generated link goes to. What do people think of this idea and are there any uses of this template which would make this a problem? Safes007 (talk) 03:55, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]