Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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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.
Source evidence
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;
After a third failed examination, the licensee must pass within 14 days but cannot undertake that examination again.
Source evidence
(b) if the licensee fails an examination mentioned in
paragraph (a)—the licensee must pass the examination within
14 days after the day of the failure;
(c) a licensee must not undertake an examination mentioned in
paragraph (a) that the licensee has failed 3 times.
Lotteries with a total ticket value above $5,000 but below $5,001 fall into none of the supplied categories.
Source evidence
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.
For a units plan registered on 1 July, the same year's unpaid rates are allocated both to the previous parcel owner and to the unit owners.
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If rates imposed for the parcel for the year when the units plan is registered are not paid before registration of the units plan, they are payable by the person who was the owner of the parcel on the day before the day when the units plan was registered.
On and after 1 July after the day when the units plan is registered or, if it is registered on 1 July, on and after that 1 July—
(a) the rates imposed for the parcel are payable by the unit owners;
The operative cross-reference to section 16 cannot work as written.
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The Commonwealth therapeutic goods laws, as in force for the time being and as modified by or under this Part, apply as a law of Victoria.
The relevant Commonwealth laws apply as laws of Victoria in relation to any offence committed against the applied provisions as if the applied provisions were a law of the Commonwealth and not a law of Victoria.
A provision of the applied provisions applying because of section 16 that confers on a Commonwealth officer or authority a function or power in relation to an offence against the Commonwealth therapeutic goods laws also confers on the officer or authority the same function or power in relation to an
The no-fee response branch directs the record keeper to give access under a provision that applies only to consent-based disclosure to another entity.
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either—
(i) give access to the record in accordance with section 13A;
This section applies if—
(a) a consumer has a right of access to a health record; and
the consumer consents under schedule 1, principle 10,
clause 2 (c) to the disclosure of personal health information
about the consumer from the record to an entity.
A report may become retrospectively overdue where the licensee first becomes aware of an incident more than 7 days after it occurred and no longer period has been agreed.
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if the licensee is not initially aware of the incident, after the licensee becomes aware of the incident;
A licensee must, as soon as practicable but not later than 7 days (or a longer period as agreed by the Minister or Energy Safe Victoria) after the occurrence of a reportable environmental incident or a reportable safety incident, submit a written report to the Minister and Energy Safe Victoria
Section 35's exhaustive application rule appears to exclude the latent-property-damage and related economic-loss path created by s 40.
Source evidence
This division applies in relation to a cause of action referred to in
section 16, 16A, 36 (1) or 38—
Subject to subsection (2), if a person has a cause of action for latent
damage to property or for economic loss in relation to such damage
to property the court may—
extend the limitation period in relation to which an action on that
cause of action may be brought for the further period not exceeding
15 years beginning on the day when the act or omission that gave rise
to the cause of action occurred that the court considers appropriate.
The supplied review provisions cannot classify the imposition of a condition on an initial approval as reviewable because section 62 requires a commission decision, while sections 61K and 61N assign the approval and condition to the relevant controlling body.
Source evidence
reviewable decision means a decision of the commission mentioned in schedule 3, column 3 under a provision of this Act mentioned in column 2 in relation to the decision.
An approval issued under section 61K, or a renewal issued under
section 61Q—
(a) is subject to the conditions prescribed by regulation; and
(b) may be subject to any other condition imposed by the relevant
controlling body.
(b) if the registered principal fails an examination mentioned in
paragraph (a)—the registered principal must pass the
examination within 14 days after the day of the failure;
(c) a registered principal must not undertake an examination
mentioned in paragraph (a) that the registered principal has
failed 3 times.
A nomination is said to lapse upon a notice under section 16B, but section 16B creates no notice.
Source evidence
the record keeper gives the consumer a notice under section 16B
about the health record;
The record keeper must give the health record, or a copy of it, to the
nominated health service provider within 2 weeks after the day the
record keeper receives the nomination.
the record keeper may give the consumer a written notice
stating that the record keeper objects to the nominated health service
provider.
The operative definition relies on the undefined expression “first provider”.
Source evidence
If a health service provider (the provider) moves from 1 health service
practice (the first practice) to another health service practice and a
consumer continues to see the provider, the consumer may ask the
first practice to give the provider a copy or written summary of the
consumer’s healthrecord
health record means a health record held by, or on behalf of, the first
provider.