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Our employees have a keen sense of the public importance of our work, and are committed to maintaining the highest standards in drafting and access to legislation.</p> <p>OQPC's office is located at 111 George Street, Brisbane and staff mostly work from this office. However, they also have the flexibility to work remotely.</p> <h2>Executive Management</h2> <p>The Parliamentary Counsel is the chief executive of OQPC. Together with the two Deputy Parliamentary Counsel (Legislative Program) and the Executive Director, Legislation and Business Services, the Parliamentary Counsel forms the office's Executive Management Group and provides strategic leadership for the office. </p> <p><a href="/about/our-people/executive-managers"><font size="3">Meet our executive managers</font></a></p> <h2>Legislative Drafting Services</h2> <p>Specialist legislative drafters, who are all qualified Australian lawyers, draft Bills, amendments to Bills and subordinate legislation. They provide advice to drafting clients about the legal and practical context for legislative proposals, ways of achieving policy objectives, the application of fundamental legislative principles and compatibility with human rights.</p> <p>Four teams of legislative drafters comprise the office's Legislative Drafting Services, and are led by the Deputy Parliamentary Counsel.</p> <h2>Legislation Editing and Publishing Services</h2> <p>The Legislation Editing and Publishing Services team (LEaPS) publishes legislation and information relating to legislation. Skilled legislation editing and publishing officers carry out high-level quality checks of draft legislation to ensure it is error-free and consistent with current drafting practices and styles. 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