Parliamentary Counsel's Office

The Parliamentary Counsel's Office provides comprehensive legislative drafting and related services to the Government and its departments and agencies in order to ensure that legislation is prepared to give effect to government policy and priorities.

The service provided by the Parliamentary Counsel's Office includes:

• preparing drafts of Bills for Ministers so that they can be introduced into Parliament in accordance with the government's legislative program;
• preparing drafts of subsidiary legislation for Ministers and government agencies so that the Acts that they administer can be fully implemented and properly administered;
• compiling and consolidating texts of Acts and subsidiary legislation so that the laws of the State can be made available in a variety of forms to those who must comply with them and those who must apply and enforce them; and
• maintaining and arranging publication of the annual index to the legislation of WA.