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Westlaw Australia Tip - Finding Legislative Definitions

Last Published: December 18, 2023

You can use the Advanced Search Template to find the legislative definition of a word or phrase in Legislation.

  1. Click on All Legislation, or the jurisdiction you are interested in, from the home page under Content types. i.e. All Legislation, Federal.
  1. Then click on the Advanced link, to open the Advanced Search Template.
  1. Go to the Defined Terms field in the search template and enter your search terms or phrase. Ex – “due diligence”.
  1. Depending on the number of Results you can then use the Filters on the left of the screen to narrow down the results.  You can narrow down to a particular Jurisdiction, Legislation title or Practice area.

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