Annual Report 2023–2024

OQPC reports annually on its progress towards achieving the purposes of the Legislative Standards Act 1992, namely, to ensure that Queensland legislation is of the highest standard; an effective and efficient legislative drafting service is provided for Queensland; and Queensland legislation, and information about it, is readily available in both printed and electronic form.

OQPC's Annual Report 2023–2024 outlines the office's recent achievements in legislative drafting and access to legislation. Highlights for the year include—

• OQPC has continued to support wider Path to Treaty initiatives by engaging in legislative co-design on drafting projects, including the convening of a special all staff forum where a panel of First Nations experts discussed legislative co-design principles and practice.

• Some particularly significant and complex legislation including the Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2023, the Property Law Act 2023, the Tow Truck Act 2023, the Public Records Act 2023, the Pharmacy Business Ownership Act 2024, the Energy (Renewable Transformation and Jobs) Act 2024, the State Emergency Service Act 2024, the Marine Rescue Queensland Act 2024, as well as other significant renewable energy, community safety and emergency services reforms, and further domestic and family violence reforms and integrity reforms.

• OQPC delivered the legislation program on time, producing 59 government Bills (4,956 pages), 11 private members' Bills (97 pages), 47 amendments for consideration in detail (344 pages) and 251 instruments of subordinate legislation (3,134 pages). There were 847 reprints of consolidated legislation (185,675 pages), of which 93% were published within 3 days of commencement.

• Six online Queensland legislation website training sessions were delivered to more than 300 people across the public sector and the community, as well as over 11 million webpage views.

• OQPC's annual survey of government clients identified that the overall satisfaction with both legislative drafting services and access to legislation was 100% during the reporting period. Surveyed clients are Ministers, Chiefs of Staff, Directors-General and their department's Cabinet Legislation and Liaison Officers and senior policy officers.

Previous annual reports

OQPC's annual reports for each financial year starting from 2002–2003 are available below. These reports document the performance of the office, and trace the changes in its operating environment and strategic priorities, over time.

For the financial years 2012–2013 to 2017–2018, OQPC contributed to the annual reports of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. OQPC's contributions to these reports also appear below.