Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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Both provisions refer to a person authorised under section 62(1)(h), but that paragraph provides for requiring reasonable help, not authorising a person to exercise powers.
Source evidence
a person authorised by the officer under section 62(1)(h),
a person
authorised under section 62(1)(h) to enter the residential
premises specified in the warrant;
require the ship's master, a person in or on the ship or an
occupier of the place, to give the authorised officer reasonable
help for the exercise of the powers specified in paragraphs (a)
to (g) (inclusive);
The required notice entry has no section 13(1) notice in the permitted direct-grant path.
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the Minister may grant an estate in fee simple in, or a lease of, Crown land without complying with
subsection (2) in relation to the land.
Where the Minister proposes:
(a) to invite applications for a lease or for the grant of an estate in
fee simple; or
(b) to sell an estate in fee simple in or a lease of Crown land by
auction, ballot or tender,
The amount so determined by the Minister as the value of the
improvements shall:
(a) be specified as the purchase price of the improvements in the
notice in relation to the land given under section 13(1);
The transitional appeal route cites the promotions provision for specified inability, performance and disciplinary decisions.
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The person may request a review under new section 59(1)(aa) or
appeal under new section 59B, as appropriate, as if the decision
were a decision under new section 44, 49A or 50 as the case may
be.
This section applies if:
(a) under section 30 a Chief Executive Officer selects an
employee (employee A) to perform duties;
Employee B may appeal against the Chief Executive Officer's
decision to promote employee A rather than employee B.
The vesting-order power depends on the Supreme Court having refused to reform a disposition under section 50A, but section 50A contains no reformation power or procedure.
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Where the Supreme Court has refused to reform a disposition under section 50A
the Court shall reform the disposition
authorize a trustee either generally or in a particular case
Section 14(1A) says a person need not answer a question under section 14 if the answer might incriminate the person or expose the person to a penalty, while section 15(3) expressly says a person required under section 14 is not excused on that ground.
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but need not answer to a question if that answer might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.
A person is not excused from answering a question or producing documents when required under this section or section 14 so to do, on the ground that the answer to the question, or the production of the documents, might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty
No grocery-store hours are specified for the Daly – Tiwi – West Arnhem Region.
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(b) Daly – Tiwi – West Arnhem Region;
The hours of operation for a grocery store authority are specified in
Schedule 3 in accordance with one or more of the following factors:
(a) the region where the licensed premises are located;
(b) the day of operation.
Schedule 3 Hours of operation of takeaway and grocery
store authorities
The transitional definition of “repealed Act” identifies this same Act rather than an Act repealed by section 88.
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repealed Act means the Adoption of Children Act 1994 as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act.
The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are repealed.
Adoption of Children Ordinance 1964 No. 67, 1964
Adoption of Children Ordinance 1967 No. 6, 1967
Adoption of Children Ordinance 1968 No. 20, 1968
Adoption of Children Ordinance 1969 No. 30, 1969
Adoption of Children Ordinance 1976 No. 42, 1976
Adoption of Children Act 1979 No. 63, 1979
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An application containing an ineligible firm name creates incompatible registration commands.
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the approved form must require the following to be included in the application:
The Commissioner must register a partnership or proposed partnership as an incorporated limited partnership if an application for the registration is made under section 56.
However, the Commissioner may record a firm name only if the Commissioner considers the firm name would be eligible for registration as a business name under the Business Names Registration Act 2011 (Cth).
Section 81 permits a notice requiring a plan that may not satisfy the exhaustive definition of “property fire management plan”.
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property fire management plan means a plan prepared under section 70.
by written notice given to the owner or occupier of land within a fire management zone, require the owner or occupier to prepare and submit to the executive director, by a date specified in the notice, a property fire management plan for the land;
the conduct results in contravention of the written notice and the person is reckless in relation to that result.
For cattle travelling less than 90 km, the required minimum is 13 km each day. A journey shorter than 13 km cannot satisfy that minimum without exceeding its total distance.
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if the total distance to be travelled is less than 90 kilometres –
For horses travelling less than 112 km, the required minimum is 16 km each day. A journey shorter than 16 km cannot satisfy that minimum without exceeding its total distance.
The definition confines funeral expense assistance to an individual who has incurred funeral costs, while the operative provisions permit approval and calculation for costs the individual is only reasonably likely to incur.
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Funeral expense assistance is a payment under this Division made to or for an individual who has incurred the costs of a funeral of a primary victim of a violent act.
the amount equal to the costs that the Director considers the applicant reasonably incurred, or will reasonably incur, for the funeral less any amounts that are paid by an organisation to or for the applicant in relation to the funeral including a payment made under an insurance policy;
As soon as practicable, but no later than 28 days after the Director decides to pay funeral expense assistance, the Territory must pay the amount specified in the notice given to the applicant under section 47E(4) in accordance with the notice.
Subject to subregulation (2), the hours of operation for a takeaway
authority are specified in Schedule 3 in accordance with one or more of
the following factors:
(c) whether the authority is operated in conjunction with another
authority.
No takeaway-with-another-authority hours are specified for the Daly – Tiwi – West Arnhem Region.
Source evidence
(b) Daly – Tiwi – West Arnhem Region;
Subject to subregulation (2), the hours of operation for a takeaway
authority are specified in Schedule 3 in accordance with one or more of
the following factors:
(c) whether the authority is operated in conjunction with another
authority.
For pre-commencement adoptions, section 65 requires the Minister to provide requested section 62(1) information concerning other adoption parties, while section 62(2)(b) prohibits providing information relating to any person’s personal affairs other than the applicant’s.
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the adopted person may only apply to the Minister under section 61 for the information specified in section 62(1) in respect of one or both of the adopted person's relinquishing parents
not be information that relates to the personal affairs of a person other than the applicant.
the Minister must, subject to subsection (3), provide the information requested in the application.
Withdrawal of a review application after the original 28-day period leaves a winding-up deadline that has already expired.
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A person whose interests are affected by a decision to issue the certificate may apply to the Supreme Court, within 28 days after the notice referred to in section 78(5)(a)(ii) is given, for a review of the decision.
The operation of the certificate is suspended until the application is withdrawn or the review is decided.
The winding up must begin within:
(a) 28 days after the notice referred to in section 78(5)(a)(ii) is given; or
(b) if the Supreme Court confirms the decision to issue the certificate under section 79 – 28 days after the confirmation.
Section 84 permits notices requiring plans that may not satisfy the exhaustive definition of “property fire management plan”.
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property fire management plan means a plan prepared under section 70.
by public notice, require each owner or occupier of land within a fire management area to prepare and submit to the executive director, by a date specified in the notice, a property fire management plan;
the conduct results in contravention of the public notice and the person is reckless in relation to that result.
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if the total distance to be travelled is less than 112 kilometres –
For sheep and goats travelling less than 56 km, the required minimum is 8 km each day. A journey shorter than 8 km cannot satisfy that minimum without exceeding its total distance.
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if the total distance to be travelled is less than 56 kilometres –