The most simple way of searching is to enter key words separated by spaces. This will return documents containing any of the search words that you entered.
Searches return documents ordered by relevance.
There is a complex algorithm used to determine the most relevant documents. Please note that due to constraints on system processing, searches will return a limited number of documents. Specifically, Within the Parliamentary Documents pages, a maximum of 150 documents will be returned Within the Victorian Statute Book pages a maximum of 200 documents will be returned Within the Victorian Law Today pages, a maximum of 200 documents will be returned To find the documents most relevant to what you need, construct your query as precisely as you can. Please note, searches on common words such as the , but etc which appear in all documents will return no matches rather than all matches. And, Or, Not - Boolean Searching You can use these words to indicate the relationship between your search words.