Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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Jurisdiction
128Absurdities
25Contradictions
92High Severity
627 of 686 eligible titles analysed91%
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The offence depends on failure to comply with a notice under nonexistent clause (4).
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Council may serve on the owner or occupier of those premises a notice in writing requiring the owner or occupier to remove the graffiti from public view
A person who fails to comply with a notice served under clause (4) is guilty of an offence.
The publication branch depends on whether an owner can be found within the “prescribed period”, but the supplied definition of that period is expressly limited to clause (1).
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the owner, if known, cannot be found within the prescribed period
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land is or will be used as a retirement village, subsection (6) prohibits removal of the record unless the objection is withdrawn.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.
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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as a retirement village, the Registrar-General must not remove the record from the Register unless the objection is withdrawn.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 route-notification deadline can expire before the event that triggers notification occurs.
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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
The cancellation-date formula makes the expressly permitted later specified date incapable of determining the effective date.
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cancellation will be effective from the date of the request of the cancellation or the date specified for cancellation (if that date is a later date) or the date from which another Policy with an Approved Insurer is incepted; whichever occurs first.
A dog exempt from dog-restriction offences may nevertheless become impossible to register while usually kept in the restricted area, exposing its keeper to the unregistered-dog offence after 3 months.
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By-law 23(5) and (8) do not apply in relation to:
(a) an assistance dog; or
(b) any other dog that the Council determines is exempt from
those provisions.
The Council must refuse to register a dog if:
(a) in keeping the dog on the premises on which the dog is
usually kept, the applicant would contravene by-law 13; or
(b) the dog is usually kept on premises within a dog restriction
area and is not a dog mentioned in by-law 23(7).
A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person keeps a dog in the Council area for a period of
3 months or longer; and
(b) the dog is not registered.
The initial constitution of the Board is circular. Half its members must be nominated by participants, but a participant must belong to a society established by the Board. The Board cannot meet to establish that society without members, including a participant-nominated member.
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Half the members are to be persons nominated by participants in
accordance with section 14.
who or which is a member of a society of participants set up under
section 38.
The Board must:
(a) set up a society or societies of participants and a society or
societies of associates;
Lotteries with a total ticket value above $5,000 but below $5,001 fall into none of the supplied categories.
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A game of chance determined to be a lottery is taken to be one of the following lotteries and the regulations relevant to the lottery apply in relation to the game:
if the total value of tickets available for sale in the game is $5 001 to $20 000 – a minor lottery;
if the total value of tickets available for sale in the game or the total entry fee to be charged does not exceed $5 000 – a raffle.
The permit-fee formula cannot determine ESA for rows containing a number of tyres other than 4 or 8.
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ESA is the sum of the equivalent standard axles for each of the rows of tyres across the trailer or trailers to be hauled under the permit by the vehicle, as determined by reference to the relevant part or parts of Table 4;
The disposal period depends on publication of notices supposedly referred to in By-law 60(2)(c), but that provision contains no publication requirement.
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the date of publication of the notices referred to in By-law 60(2)(c)
furnish to the Registrar a certificate of the reason the notice was not served;
cause notice of the impounding to be published in a newspaper circulating in the municipality.
The same offence is assigned two different maximum penalties for a natural person.
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Maximum penalty: If the offender is a natural person –
20 penalty units.
If the offender is a natural person –
100 penalty units.
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If an infringement notice is issued to the owner of an impounded
dog, the CEO must not destroy or dispose of the dog until at least
14 days after any court proceedings relating to that infringement
notice are complete.
the person may expiate the infringement notice offence and
avoid any further action in relation to the offence by paying the
prescribed amount to the specified enforcement agency within
28 days after the notice is given;
This Part does not prejudice or affect the start or continuation of
proceedings for an infringement notice offence for which an
infringement notice was given unless the offence is expiated.