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3 as a result of an editorial correction set out in AASB 2021-7.

Why have we issued this Standard?
This Standard clarifies that all Australian Interpretations have the same authoritative status. Those that incorporate the IASB Interpretations must be applied to achieve compliance with IFRS Accounting Standards. Australian Interpretations issued by the AASB comprise both AASB and UIG Interpretations. UIG Interpretations were developed by the Urgent Issues Group, a former committee of the AASB.
This Standard also updates references in other Standards to the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting and the Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements to subsequent versions.

Need for a Service Standard

Australian Interpretations
In the Australian context, Australian Interpretations do not have the same legal status as Standards (delegated legislation) and are treated as 'external documents' by the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 and the Legislation Act 2003. Although references in one Standard to a second Standard are ambulatory (automatically moving forward to refer to the most recently-issued version of the second Standard), references in a Standard to external documents are stationary (being fixed in time to refer to the contents of the external document when the Standard was issued). A simple reference to an Australian Interpretation in a Standard can refer only to the Interpretation that existed when the Standard was issued. It cannot refer to any revised version of the Interpretation that may exist at a later reporting date. However, a Standard can refer to a second Standard and, when the first Standard is applied at a later reporting date, the reference will be to the then-current version of the second Standard, even if it has been reissued since the first Standard was issued.
The service Standard approach, as applied to Australian Interpretations, involves issuing this Standard to list the versions of Australian Interpretations, and referring to this Standard in every other Standard where necessary to refer to an Interpretation. This enables references to the Interpretations in all other Standards to be updated by reissuing the service Standard.
This approach preserves the status of Australian Interpretations as 'external documents' referred to in a Standard. It does not treat the Interpretations as delegated legislation or confer ambulatory status on the reference. In each Standard where there is a need to refer to an Australian Interpretation, the reference will be to this Standard, phrased as "Interpretation [number] [title] as identified in AASB 1048" (or similar). This reference, being to another Standard, is ambulatory and will refer to the version of this Standard that is in force from time to time. AASB 1048 itself will contain the direct references to the external documents and will be reissued periodically.
This approach to clarifying the status of