⁵⁴See,  for  example,  the  nume rous  examples  in  the   Personal  Property  Securities  Act  1999 ,  Property (Relationships) Act 1976, and Overseas Investment Exemption Notice 2001  (SR 200 1/410).      ⁵⁵See the flow chart in Part 3 of the Trade Marks Act 2002 outlining the process for obtaining registration of a trade mark. See also the diagram in clause 3(3) of the Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Bill 2001.      ⁵⁶See section 77 of the Administration Act 1967, which sets out in tabular form how property is to be distributed on an  intestacy. See also  the table of categories of Crown entities set out in clause 4 2 of the  Pub lic Finance (State Sector Management) Bill 2003. ⁵⁷Jeffrey  Barnes,  Shining  Examples,  a  pap er  pre sented   at  the  Conference  of  the  C omm onwealth Association   of   Legislative   Counsel   (in   association   with   the   13^th   Comm onwealth   Law   Conference), Melbourne, Australia, 17 April 2003. 35 “example  boxes” following the provisions to which they relate⁵⁴ • flow-charts⁵⁵ • tables.⁵⁶ 65 Examples are a useful method of supplementing a particular legislative rule with an explanation of how the rule will apply in a particular situation. They are not new. They  have  been  used  in  the  Consumer  Credit  Act  1974  (UK),  the  Occupiers Liability Act 1957 (UK), the Indian Evidence Act 1972, and the Indian Penal Code. Examples now feature extensively in Australian Commonwealth legislation and in the legislation of Victoria, Queensland, and the Australian Capital Territory. In an interesting  study  of  the  role  of  examples  in  legislation,  an  Australian  academic lawyer, Jeffrey Barnes, says this: Examples  have  altered  the  language  and  structure  of  statutes  in  significant  ways.  Their separate location after the relevant provision has allowed a variety of means of expression, including most radically, the narrative form . It has also  allowed the example to rival the  rule for legal or practical effect.⁵⁷ 66 Many of the features outlined above appear in the legislation of other jurisdictions. They are part of an international trend to make legislation more accessible to both the ordinary and the expert reader. Legislation is used every day in a vast array of