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AI-detected issues
Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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The definition both includes and excludes interests in a unit lease.
means a legal or equitable estate or interest (whether registered or unregistered) in the lease of the unit or of the common property;
but (c) does not include an interest in a lease of a unit.
Clause 5(a) imposes a deadline before the Agreement was executed and before Division B could acquire force.
This Agreement is made the Second day of September One thousand nine hundred and eighty
Divisions A, B and C of Part II of this Agreement shall be of no force or effect
facilitate and assist in deciding with the relevant authorities as to the date of closure of the Portland Aerodrome existing at the Commencement date and as to a site for a new aerodrome in lieu thereof by the 1st day of September One thousand nine hundred and eighty.
The exception for delayed Public Advocate contact depends on a non-interim order containing statements under section 21(6) about section 54 contact, but section 21(6) concerns section 53 contact. Section 21(7), not section 21(6), authorises statements about section 54 contact.
the order includes statements under section 21 (6) about contact with the person under this section—must take place in accordance with the order.
the person is entitled to have contact with a stated person under section 53
the person may not be contacted under section 54
If an objection alleges that the land is or will be used as a retirement village, subsection (6) prohibits removal of the record unless the objection is withdrawn. Subsection (7) nevertheless requires removal if the Registrar-General is satisfied that the land is not and will not be so used. An unwithdrawn objection and contrary satisfaction can coexist, producing simultaneous duties not to remove and to remove.
If an objection is made on the grounds that the land is used, or is to be used, as a retirement village, the Registrar-General must not remove the record from the Register unless the objection is withdrawn.
If satisfied the land is not used, or is not to be used, as a retirement village, the Registrar-General must remove the record from the Register.
The course-of-training exemption branch cannot operate on its own.
a course of training under the Act that includes an assessment
the assessment under the Act, section 55A is the same or substantially the same as the assessment of eligibility under subsection (1).
The property-damage exception relies on regulatory permission under section 37, but section 37 creates only authorisation by the chief health officer.
A person may apply to the chief health officer for authorisation to exhume human remains.
If the chief health officer authorises the exhumation, the chief health officer must tell the person, in writing—
written permission of the regulator given under section 37 (Exhumation—application).
The prescribed claim form cannot be truthfully completed by a claimant who received no compensation offer.
For the purposes of section 35(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed form is Form 11 in Schedule 1.
If you think you had an interest in the land and you do not receive an offer from the [*name of Authority*], you can make a claim to the [*name of Authority*] for compensation.
YOU MUST COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT *I/*We state that— 1 *I am/*we are the person(s) to whom the above offer of compensation was made.
Pre-commencement Liquor Control Reform Act photographs and fingerprints may become subject to a destruction deadline that expired before commencement.
that are in existence immediately before the commencement day are, on that day, taken to be photographs, finger prints and palm prints taken under section 41.
(ii) no later than 6 months from the date they were taken—
the Chairperson has a period of 6 months from the commencement day to comply with section 41(5) in respect of photographs, finger prints and palm prints taken under section 10.5.2
The mandatory interest calculation has no rate branch for amounts payable before 15 July 1992.
If an amount is due and payable to the commission under section 31, a further amount of interest for the period commencing when the firstmentioned amount becomes payable and ending when it is paid or judgment is entered in respect of it (whichever sooner happens) is due and payable to the commission
if the amount under section 31 is payable on or after 15 July 1992 but before the day mentioned in paragraph (b)—
if the amount under section 31 is payable on or after the day the Court Procedures Act 2004 commences—at the rate applying under the rules under that Act applying in relation to the Supreme Court.
The seven-day holding period has no commencement branch for livestock impounded and delivered by a person authorised by a relevant corporation.
A person who is authorised by a relevant corporation under section 5(2)(e) and who under section 5 impounds livestock must deliver that livestock to the nearest convenient pound as soon as is practicable after impounding the livestock.
Subject to subsection (3), a council must hold livestock impounded under section 5 or 5B for at least 7 days before the council may dispose of the livestock in accordance with this Part.
The 7 day period referred to in subsection (1) commences on the day that— (a) the authorised officer of a council impounds the livestock; or (b) the council is informed of the impounding of livestock under section 9(3) by the owner or occupier of land or an authorised officer; or (c) if the imp (
The mandatory conversion of a no-fee surviving allocation lacks a workable amount-calculation path if no applicable section 18 determination exists.
guidelines determined under section 18, if any, for working out reasonable amounts of water for particular uses;
On request under subsection (2), the authority must grant to the person—
the amount that, under the determination in force under section 18 (Amounts of water reasonable for uses), is a reasonable amount for the existing use.
The route-notification deadline can expire before the event that triggers notification occurs.
As soon as practicable after construction of a pipeline has been finished but within 3 months after a consent to operate is granted for the pipeline, the pipeline licensee must notify the Minister in writing of the exact route followed by the pipeline.
Within 7 days after an application for a consent under this Division to operate a pipeline is lodged, the Minister must decide whether to grant the consent.
The Minister must grant a consent under this Division if there are reasonable grounds for believing that: (a) a pipeline management plan in force for the pipeline provides for the operation of the pipeline; (b) a validation of the proposal to operate the pipeline is in force; and (c) if the Minister
A permitted late-completion branch allows clause 4(b) to acquire force only after its stated production deadline.
Division A, B and C of Part II of this Agreement shall not come into operation until the first day of the month following the date upon which the last of the following events occurs—
then either party may determine this Agreement at any time thereafter before all of such events shall have occurred
use its best endeavours to commence continuous production in commercial quantities of aluminium by the 1st day of November one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six;
Section 21(7) permits a non-interim order to prohibit section 54 contact within 24 hours and require later contact. Section 54(4) requires contact within 24 hours, while section 54(5)(b) fails to displace that requirement because it incorrectly refers to section 21(6).
that the person may not be contacted under section 54 (Person with impaired decision-making ability to be contacted by public advocate) within 24 hours after being detained under the order;
The first contact under subsection (3) must be within 24 hours after each of the following:
the order includes statements under section 21 (6) about contact with the person under this section
Section 21(8) permits an interim order to prohibit section 54 contact while the person is detained. Section 54(5)(a) only displaces the 24-hour requirement for a statement under section 21(7), not section 21(8).
the order may state that the person may not be contacted under section 54 while being detained under the interim order.
The first contact under subsection (3) must be within 24 hours
if the preventative detention order is an interim order—must not take place if the order includes a statement to that effect in the order under section 21 (7);
Section 26(3) permits an extension order to prohibit section 54 contact within 24 hours after further detention and require later contact. Section 54(4)(b) requires contact within that period, and section 54(5) contains no exception for section 26(3).
that the person may not be contacted under section 54 (Person with impaired decision-making ability to be contacted by public advocate) within 24 hours after being further detained under the order;
that the person must be contacted under section 54 after the end of the 24-hour period within a period stated in the order.
the person is further detained under an extension, or further extension, of the preventative detention order.
Section 23(4) permits an interim-order extension to prohibit section 54 contact while the person is further detained. Section 54(4)(b) requires first contact within 24 hours after further detention, and section 54(5) contains no exception for section 23(4).
the extension, or further extension, may state that the person may not be contacted under section 54 (Person with impaired decision-making ability to be contacted by public advocate) while being further detained under the interim order.
The first contact under subsection (3) must be within 24 hours after each of the following:
the person is further detained under an extension, or further extension, of the preventative detention order.
The same offence is assigned two different maximum penalties for a natural person.
Maximum penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 20 penalty units. If the offender is a natural person – 100 penalty units.