Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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Section 39(2)(a) refers to the end of a suspension period specified in section 37(5), but section 37(5) states only a maximum duration.
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A suspension under this section must not be for a period of more than 6 months.
(c) the period of the suspension and date on which the suspension takes effect; and
(2) A suspension under section 37 remains in force until the earlier of the following—
(a) the end of the period specified in section 37(5);
(b) if the Secretary determines that it should end on an earlier date, that date.
Section 94(1) conditions the transfer of contractual liabilities on rights being transferred “under section 93”, but section 93 does not transfer rights.
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All rights under the contract of carriage in relation to which a sea-carriage document is given are transferred to—
If section 92 operates in relation to a bill of lading to transfer rights under the contract of carriage, the transfer extinguishes any entitlement to those rights which derives from—
This section applies to a person where the rights in the contract of carriage in relation to a sea-carriage document are transferred to the person under section 93 and—
The warrant-execution requirement has no recipient when the premises are empty.
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the magistrate may issue a search warrant in accordance with the **Magistrates' Court Act 1989** authorising the Commissioner or an authorised person to search for the evidence named or described in the warrant.
If the occupier is not present at the premises where a warrant issued under section 65 is being executed, the person executing the warrant must—
(a) identify himself or herself to a person at the premises; and
(b) give the person a copy of the warrant.
The specified 99-year period has no stated start date when a record subject to a Yoorrook Justice Commission record order is transferred to another public office.
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***specified period*** means the period of 99 years beginning on the day on which a record is transferred to the Department of Premier and Cabinet under section 124;
The Yoorrook Justice Commission may make an order in respect of a specified record requiring the Keeper of Public Records and the Secretary to ensure that, for the specified period, the record is not made available for public inspection.
all its records are to be transferred to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, unless the Premier, by instrument, determines that they are to be transferred to another public office.
For the same service, a person found competent through qualifications and experience but not entitled through an approved training course must receive both a permission and a non-permission endorsement.
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(b) is, by reason of his or her qualifications and experience,
competent to provide a service specified in subsection (1),
the Board must authorise the endorsement of the licence under
subsection (1) with a statement to the effect that the holder of the
licence is permitted to provide the service.
(a) is not entitled under subsection (3) to have his or her licence
endorsed in relation to a service specified in subsection (1); or
the Registrar must endorse the licence with a statement to the
effect that the holder of the licence is not permitted to provide the
service.
The jurisdictional amount has no stated final-offer figure for a disputed acquisition claim made because no offer was received.
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If a person is entitled to claim compensation under this Part, and the Authority has not made an offer to that person under section 31, that person may make a claim for compensation under this section.
If the Authority fails to reply to the notice of claim within the prescribed time it is to be taken to have rejected the claim and the claim becomes a disputed claim for the purposes of this Act.
In this section ***amount in dispute*** means the amount of the difference between the amount claimed by the claimant and the amount of the final offer made by the Authority before the application is made to the Tribunal in respect of the claim or the matter is referred to the Court under this Part.
The required first-storage date does not exist for donor gametes or donor embryos taken out of Victoria after being kept, but never stored, by the registered ART provider.
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The following information is prescribed in relation to the taking out of Victoria of any donor gametes or donor embryos that have been, or are, stored or kept by a registered ART provider—
(h) the date on which the gametes were or the embryo was first placed in storage by the registered ART provider.
The definition does not cover a specification finalised after every consulted party responds.
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(a) in relation to a performance audit conducted under section 14 or 15, a specification finalised under section 17(3);
(3) If the Parliamentary Committee, public body, associated entity or other entity does not respond to a request for comment on a draft specification for a performance audit within 15 business days of receiving the request—
(1) The Auditor-General must provide a final specification for a performance audit to any public body, associated entity or other entity that is included in the performance audit.
The warning for commercial or liquor licence premises refers to a record that can be made only for residential premises.
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(b) at those commercial or liquor licence premises:
for a second or subsequent time within 12 months after a record is
made under section 11E(1) in relation to the premises, a drug
premises order may be made under this Division in relation to the
premises.
A police officer may make a record in the prescribed form of a
dangerous drug being found by the officer at residential premises.
(2) A suspension under section 42ZS remains in force until the earlier of the following—
(a) the end of the period specified in section 42ZS(5);
(b) if the Secretary determines that it should end on an earlier date, that date.
The acquisition-interest calculation lacks its stated offer baseline on the no-offer disputed-claim path.
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If a person is entitled to claim compensation under this Part, and the Authority has not made an offer to that person under section 31, that person may make a claim for compensation under this section.
If the Authority fails to reply to the notice of claim within the prescribed time it is to be taken to have rejected the claim and the claim becomes a disputed claim for the purposes of this Act.
If an amount of compensation is awarded by the Court or the Tribunal under this Act, the amount that represents the difference between the amount of compensation awarded and the amount of compensation offered by the Authority immediately before the claimant's claim became a disputed claim bears 11it
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is served with a medical report under rule 18.02;
must, as soon as practicable and not later than 28 days before the
as soon as practicable after it comes into his or her possession
For a deponent who cannot read and is physically unable to sign or make a mark, the witness is required to certify both that the deponent signed or marked the affidavit and that the affidavit was made without either act. The evidentiary exception in rule 17.03(2) does not remove either stated certification requirement.
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the deponent signed his or her name or made a mark in the
person's presence.
If it appears to the person witnessing an affidavit that the deponent
is physically unable to sign his or her name or make a mark, the
the affidavit was made by the deponent without the deponent
signing his or her name or making a mark because the
deponent was physically unable to do so.
For a deponent who cannot understand English and is physically unable to sign or make a mark, the witness is required to certify both that the affidavit was made without a signature or mark and that the deponent signed or marked it. The evidentiary exception in rule 17.05(2) does not remove either stated certification requirement.
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the affidavit was made by the deponent without the deponent
signing his or her name or making a mark because the
deponent was physically unable to do so.
If it appears to the person witnessing an affidavit that the deponent
is unable to understand the English language, the person must
the deponent signed his or her name or made a mark in the
person's presence.
The definition does not cover an independent performance audit specification finalised after the Auditor-General responds.
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(b) in relation to a performance audit of the Auditor-General or the Victorian Auditor-General's Office under section 82, a specification finalised under section 82(8);
(8) If the Auditor-General does not respond to a request for comment on a draft specification for a performance audit within 15 business days of receiving the request—
(9) The Parliamentary Committee must provide the final specification for a performance audit to the Auditor-General.
The mandatory charged-person notice assumes an analysis entitlement that the cited provision does not give every charged person.
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A police officer must make all reasonable attempts to serve on each
person who is, or is to be, charged with an offence in relation to the
property written notice of his or her entitlement under section 19PA
to have a sample or samples of the substance analysed or
examined.
A person who is the owner of a seized substance that: