Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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92High Severity
627 of 686 eligible titles analysed91%
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The recommendation-only path can have no recipient matching the provision’s required description.
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A veterinarian who recommends or supplies a veterinary chemical
product specified in section 32(1) must give the person to whom the
product is being supplied the information prescribed by
otherwise providing the information in writing to the person
when the veterinarian recommends or supplies the product.
For a receiver’s remuneration application, Form 16 says an objector must give notice within 21 days after that person is served. Rule 9.1(3) permits an eligible person to give notice within 21 days after the last service of the documents. If that person was served before someone else, the form states an earlier deadline than the rule allows.
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If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (2), any creditor or contributory, or any person mentioned in
paragraph (2) (c), (d) or (e), may give to the receiver a notice of
objection to the remuneration claimed, stating the grounds of
objection.
A required detention and search can lack the grounds required by the section under which they must occur.
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suspects, on reasonable grounds, that
an instrument, article, equipment, device or thing has been or may
be used in connection with an offence in a casino, whether or not a
person has been detained under section 28
Where it appears that property specified in subsection (1) cannot be
seized under that subsection without a search of a person, the
person shall be detained under section 28 and the search carried
out by a member of the Police Force under that section.
A member of the Police Force may in a casino detain in a suitable
place for a reasonable time a person who has or who is suspected,
on reasonable grounds, to have contravened or attempted to
contravene this or any other Act.
For a final report triggered by cancellation for a contravention of section 95(1) of the Act, the specified late-lodgment period can end before it starts.
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If the title holder does not pay the rent or administration fee as
required under subregulation (5), the Minister may take action
under section 105(3) of the Act for a contravention of section 95(1)
of the Act.
For section 94(2)(e)(i) of the Act, the holder of an EL, ELR or ML
must give the Minister the final report within 60 days after the
mineral title has ceased to be in force for all or part of the title area.
The late lodgment period for an annual report, expenditure report or final
report is the period that starts on the day on the day after the reporting day
and ends on the earliest of the following:
(a) the day on which the person gives the report to the Minister;
(b) the day on which the Minister
The review provisions refer to an application under a section that does not provide for making one.
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that is the subject of an application under
section 119 ceases to have effect:
A notice given under this Division must specify:
A person to whom a notice is given under Division 3 may apply to
the Supreme Court to review the declaration or requirement to
dispose of voting shares the subject of the notice.
On a path where ceasing to hold trust money coincides with ceasing to receive it, the required notice cannot provide advance notice after the cessation.
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A law practice that holds trust money must give the Law Society at
least 14 days' written notice of its intention:
(c) to cease to practise in such a way as to receive trust money.
Within 14 days of ceasing to hold trust money, a law practice that
holds trust money must give the Society:
(a) written notice of that fact; and
(b) if the practice has not given a notice under subregulation (1)
within the previous 28 days, a notice that complies with that
subregulation.
For people served under section 42A(1)(f) or (2A), the stated period for comments begins only when compulsory acquisition occurs.
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within 2 months after the date of
publication of the notice of acquisition
The Minister must not compulsorily acquire land in relation to which
this Part applies unless the Minister has taken into account the
comments (if any) lodged in accordance with section 42C.
by compulsory
acquisition by causing a notice declaring the land to be
acquired to be published in the Gazette.
The transitional provision deems a former permit to be a “program approval” under a Division that provides for accreditation, not approvals of projects.
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A permit in force under Part 5, Division 3 of the repealed Act
immediately before the commencement is taken to be a program
approval granted by an accredited animal ethics committee under
Part 4, Division 3 of this Act.
project approval, means an approval under section 61 of a project
to use an animal for scientific purposes.
(c) there is no project approval in force for the use.
The provisional-declaration deadline can expire before the duty applies.
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give a copy of the statement to the Minister.
As soon as practicable after preparing the statement of heritage
value for the place or object, the Council must invite submissions
This section applies if the Minister is given notice of the Council's
decision on an assessment under Division 3 that a place or object
is of heritage significance.
(2) Within 7 days after the Council invites submissions on the heritage
significance of the place or object under section 26(1)(a), the
An authority may be varied on the chief officer’s own initiative, but the mandatory variation documentation assumes an application and an applicant.
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at any time on the chief officer's own initiative; or
must, as soon as practicable, prepare and give to the
applicant a document that complies with section 15.
state whether the application was a formal variation
application or an urgent variation application; and
(e) state the date and time when the authority is to be or was
varied; and
(f) describe the variation having regard to the purposes
mentioned in section 14(3) for which the application was
made.
Section 122(1) refers to Acts repealed by section 67, but the supplied section 67 repeals no Acts.
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The Acts repealed by section 67 continue to apply to and in relation
A person must not demonstrate a computer game so that it can be
seen from a public place if the game is:
The Classification of Publications Act 1979 (being Act No. 135
of 1979) and the Classification of Publications Amendment
Act 1982 (being Act No. 28 of 1982) are repealed.
For a provisional liquidator’s remuneration application, Form 16 requires an objector’s notice within 21 days after service on that person; rule 9.3(4) permits notice within 21 days after the last service of the documents. Earlier-served eligible objectors are given conflicting deadlines.
Source evidence
If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (3), the liquidator, or any creditor or contributory, may give
to the provisional liquidator a notice of objection to the remuneration
claimed, stating the grounds of objection.
For a liquidator’s remuneration application, Form 16 states a 21-day objection deadline running from service on the objector, while rule 9.4(4) permits objection within 21 days after the last service of the documents. The periods differ if the objector was served before the last recipient.
Source evidence
If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (3), any creditor or contributory may give to the liquidator a
notice of objection to the remuneration claimed, stating the grounds
of objection.
For a special manager’s remuneration application, Form 16 states that an objector must give notice within 21 days after being served; rule 9.5(4) permits an eligible objector to give notice within 21 days after the last service of the documents. The form cuts short the rule’s period for someone served earlier.
Source evidence
If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (3), the liquidator, or any creditor or contributory, may give
to the special manager a notice of objection to the remuneration
claimed, stating the grounds of objection.
Ceasing to hold trust money can trigger a requirement to notify an intention to cease an activity even when the practice has no such intention.
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A law practice that holds trust money must give the Law Society at
least 14 days' written notice of its intention:
(a) to cease to exist as a law practice; or
(b) to cease to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction; or
(c) to cease to practise in such a way as to receive trust money.
Within 14 days of ceasing to hold trust money, a law practice that
holds trust money must give the Society:
(a) written notice of that fact; and
(b) if the practice has not given a notice under subregulation (1)
within the previous 28 days, a notice that complies with that
subregulation.