The legislation states it is 'current from 1 October 2020 to date' yet the file was last modified on 24 September 2020, predating its own currency commencement date by approximately 7 days.
The instrument is titled '(No. 2) 2020', logically implying the existence of a preceding '(No. 1) 2020' instrument extending the emergency period. However, no reference, cross-reference, or savings provision is made to that prior instrument within the text provided, creating a structural gap: it is impossible to determine the cumulative emergency period duration, the baseline from which this extension operates, or whether this instrument is consistent with or contradicts its predecessor.
The instrument as reproduced contains no operative provisions whatsoever — no definitions, no extension period specified, no conditions, no commencement clause, and no substantive legal effect is discernible from the text. An instrument with no operative clauses cannot logically achieve compliance, impose obligations, or extend anything.
The instrument's file modification date (24 September 2020) precedes the date from which the version is stated to be current (1 October 2020), creating a temporal contradiction. A version cannot be current from a date that postdates the last recorded modification of that version's file, unless intervening modifications went unrecorded — which itself contradicts the stated update policy of within 3 working days.
The Order purports to declare the 'End of the Emergency Period' yet its version is stated as current 'from 31 January 2021 to date', implying the instrument itself has ongoing operative effect despite its sole purpose being to terminate a period. An order ending a period should be a spent instrument with no continuing currency.
The file is stated to have been 'last modified 28 January 2021', yet the version is described as 'current from 31 January 2021'. This creates a three-day gap where the authorised file predates its own commencement, meaning the instrument as authorised never existed in its operative form prior to coming into force.
The application form requires disclosure of the 'number and type of any pets intended to be kept at the premises if approved by the lessor'. The approval condition is logically inverted — at the application stage, lessor approval has not yet been given, making it impossible to disclose approved pets. The prospective tenant cannot know which pets will be approved before submitting the application that triggers the approval process.
The water efficiency requirements for dual flush toilets set a maximum of 6.5L full flush and 3.5L half flush, and an average flush volume of not more than 4L. Using the prescribed formula (FF + (2 x HF)) / 3 with maximum values of 6.5L and 3.5L yields an average of (6.5 + 7.0) / 3 = 4.5L, which exceeds the 4L average flush limit. A toilet at the maximum permitted individual flush volumes would automatically fail the average flush volume requirement, making simultaneous compliance with all three numerical standards mathematically impossible in many cases.
The Act declares it binds all persons including the State and Commonwealth, but then states nothing in the Act makes the Commonwealth or State liable to be prosecuted for an offence. Binding someone to an Act while immunising them from prosecution for breaching it renders the binding obligation largely meaningless for enforcement purposes.
Section 4 preserves pre-existing rights and remedies 'apart from this Act', but then defines those pre-existing rights and remedies as only those 'not inconsistent with this Act'. This is circular: the scope of preserved external rights is defined by reference to the very Act they exist apart from, making it impossible to independently determine what rights are preserved without first knowing what the Act requires.
The exclusion for employee accommodation carves out 'employees employed in the service by the service provider' — meaning that if the service provider houses their own staff, THAT portion IS a residential service, but if they house third-party employees it is NOT. This creates the perverse outcome that a service provider who accommodates their own workers attracts full regulatory burden, while one providing identical accommodation to workers employed by others faces none.
The food and nutrition standard for level 2 accreditation requires compliance with 'the best practice guide for healthy eating in supported accommodation published by the health department on the website of the Metro South Hospital and Health Service.' This anchors a legally binding compliance obligation to an informal administrative publication hosted on a specific hospital and health service website that can be altered, removed or relocated at any time without legislative process, making the standard of compliance indeterminate and potentially impossible to verify.
Section 4(1) requires residents to share rooms/facilities with other residents as a condition of being a 'residential service', yet section 4(2)(a) extends the definition to cover services where residents do NOT share facilities (e.g. self-contained units with food/personal care service). The example given in s4(2) explicitly mentions residents in self-contained units, directly contradicting the shared-facilities requirement in s4(1)(c)(iv).
The deemed refusal provision treats administrative inaction as a substantive decision against the applicant. If the chief executive fails to decide within the due day, the application is 'taken to have been refused' — yet the chief executive is also required under s11(1) to decide 'as soon as practicable'. The inaction that triggers the deemed refusal is itself a breach of duty, yet the remedy for that breach is adverse to the innocent applicant rather than the delinquent decision-maker.
The legislation text provided is entirely absent — the page returns a 404-style error message indicating the content is 'no longer available'. There is no actual legislative text to analyse.
The document headers repeat themselves recursively and nonsensically — 'Western Australian Legislation' appears as both an H2 and H1 under itself, and 'Unknown URL' similarly nests under itself — suggesting a broken metadata or scraping loop rather than a coherent document.
The definition of 'human embryo clone' as a genetic copy explicitly states it is NOT necessary to establish that the copy is an identical genetic copy. A non-identical genetic copy is by definition not a clone in any scientifically meaningful sense, rendering the concept of 'genetic copy' internally incoherent.
The Act binds all persons including the State but then immediately declares the State cannot be prosecuted for an offence. This creates a situation where the State is 'bound' by obligations it can never be held to account for through the primary enforcement mechanism (prosecution).
Section 2 is duplicated verbatim in its own body: the section states its two subsections as prose, then immediately restates them again as labelled subsections (sec.2-ssec.1) and (sec.2-ssec.2), producing a legislative provision that says the same thing twice within itself.
Section 8 prohibits editorial changes that would change the effect of a provision, but section 9 deems that editorial changes made under section 7 have effect 'as if the changes had been made expressly by another law'. If an editorial change cannot change effect (s.8), why does s.9 need to deem it to have been made by a separate amending law — a legal fiction ordinarily reserved for changes that do alter legal effect?
Senators are 'chosen for a term of 6 years' but their places are explicitly made to become vacant before 6 years have elapsed — s5(3) senators hold from the day in s5(1) but vacate at 30 June 1991, and s5(4) senator vacates at 30 June 1988, both of which may be less than 6 years depending on when the triggering election occurs.
Section 5(2) mandates that 7 senators shall be chosen at the first post-commencement election, but s5(8) overrides this to 12 if the election follows a Senate dissolution — yet the heading and structure of s5 presents the 7-senator rule as the substantive transitional provision, creating an internal rule that can be entirely displaced by a contingency that renders the entire detailed transitional machinery in ss(3)–(7) inoperative.
Section 107vn(2) allows the President to constitute the Tribunal with the President, a Deputy President, and a Services member (three members) for important matters under s107vc. However, s107vn(3) mandates that for proceedings under s107vd or s107ve, the third member (under s107vn(1)(c)) must be a medical member. The alternative constitution under s107vn(2) has no medical member requirement and no mechanism to add a medical member, meaning the most important proceedings (elevated by the President) would paradoxically lack the medical expertise mandated for ordinary assessment proceedings.
Section 107vr(2) allows a proceeding to continue before only 2 members if the applicant consents. Section 107vw(2) provides that where a 2-member Tribunal cannot agree, the Tribunal must adjourn and refer the matter to the President. This creates a potential infinite loop: applicant consents to 2-member Tribunal; the 2 members deadlock; the matter is referred to the President under s107vr; the President reconstitutes, but if the applicant again consents to 2 members and they again deadlock, the cycle repeats with no statutory endpoint.
Section 5 amends section 8 of the Principal Act by adding sub-section (8) regarding majority vote decisions, but the closing quotation mark and section number are missing — section 6 begins immediately without closing section 5, creating an ambiguity as to whether the text of proposed section 8a is part of the amendment in section 5 or a standalone insertion.
Section 8(2) deems the appropriation under section 51 of the Principal Act (as amended) to have taken effect on 1 July 1974, but the amending Act received Royal Assent after that date. This creates a retroactive appropriation of public funds — expenditure that had already occurred between 1 July 1974 and Royal Assent would retrospectively be authorised, meaning the Crown had already spent money without lawful parliamentary appropriation at the time of spending.
Every heading and section in the instrument appears to be duplicated verbatim (e.g. 'Residential Tenancy (End of Em Residential Tenancy (End of Emergency Period for COVID-19 Emergency) Order 2021', 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'). If this duplication is present in the operative instrument itself rather than being a rendering artefact, it creates ambiguity as to which instance of each provision is authoritative.
The instrument as reproduced contains no operative provisions whatsoever — no clause declaring when the emergency period ends, no definition of 'emergency period', and no enabling power cited. An order that declares the end of an emergency period but omits the actual declaration is logically incapable of achieving its stated purpose.
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For an 'attempted sale' of a caravan, the lessor's fee cap is calculated as 4% of 'the price the caravan is advertised for sale'. The advertised price is set unilaterally by the seller/lessor, meaning the lessor can manipulate the fee base by inflating the advertised price. This renders the cap ineffective as a consumer protection measure and creates a perverse incentive to advertise at inflated prices.
The 'reasonable efforts' to contact the owner of goods include 'attempting to contact an emergency contact listed on the owner's former residential tenancy agreement'. However, the goods left on premises scenario arises after the tenancy has ended, and the lessor or person conducting the auction may not have access to the former tenancy agreement or the emergency contact details it contains, making this a practically unachievable step in many circumstances where the agreement was not retained.
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The definition of 'caravan' in subsection (2) includes something 'not fitted with wheels' and 'not designed for permanent attachment to land but designed for attachment to a motor vehicle'. An object with no wheels and designed to attach to a motor vehicle is not recognisably a caravan in any ordinary sense, and may overlap with trailers or other structures in a confusing and potentially absurd way.
Section 17A(3)(a) expressly lists 'sanitation, drainage, cleanliness and repair' as matters about which minimum housing standards may be prescribed. Section 17A(4) then provides an example that a standard requiring a lessor to keep premises clean after the start of a tenancy is inconsistent with tenant obligations under s.188(2) and therefore of no force. The Act thus simultaneously authorises regulations about cleanliness and pre-emptively voids any such regulation that touches post-commencement cleanliness obligations.
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Level 3 accreditation requires that 'personal care services for residents are delivered, to the extent possible, through entities external to the residential service.' Yet level 3 accreditation also requires that 'the service provider ensures staff who provide personal care services hold a current qualification for the administration of first aid and CPR.' If personal care must be delivered externally to the maximum possible extent, there is minimal reason for the service to maintain internally qualified staff, yet internal staff must still hold those qualifications. The two requirements pull directly against each other.
The regulation requires that residents 'are supported to ensure they have access to and wear clothing appropriate to the situation and climate.' The obligation to ensure residents actually WEAR particular clothing is a direct infringement of the autonomy principles simultaneously mandated elsewhere in the regulation (right of independence and freedom of choice, choice and control over lifestyle). It is also practically impossible to compel a competent adult to wear specific clothing without breaching their legal rights.
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Registration is 'automatically cancelled' on the day following the due day if there is no accreditation or current application (s35(2)), but also 'automatically cancelled' after the due day if accreditation ends or an application lapses (s35(3)). These two subsections create overlapping automatic cancellation triggers with no coordination mechanism, potentially resulting in double cancellation of the same registration or uncertainty about when exactly cancellation occurs.
After a failed level 2 or level 3 accreditation application, a service provider is prohibited from restarting a food service or personal care service for 6 months. However, the service provider may still be conducting the residential service during this period, meaning they are legally registered and operating a service but prohibited from providing a core element that may be essential to residents' welfare — potentially leaving vulnerable residents without food or personal care services for 6 months.
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The document purports to be a specific, named Western Australian Act but simultaneously declares that it does not exist at the referenced location and provides no legislative content. The title asserts the existence of a substantive legal instrument; the body of the document denies that any such content is accessible or present.
Section 5(5) states a reference to an embryo is a reference to a living embryo. Section 5(7) states a reference to a human embryo does not include a hybrid embryo. However, sec.14 prohibits developing a 'hybrid embryo' for more than 14 days, using the term 'hybrid embryo' as if it is covered by the Act's general embryo provisions. The exclusion of hybrid embryos from the definition of 'human embryo' while still regulating them creates a definitional inconsistency in how they are treated throughout the Act.
An 'exempt use' of an excess ART embryo includes 'allowing the excess ART embryo to succumb.' This means deliberately allowing an embryo to die is an exempt use not requiring a licence, but observing, photographing, or storing it also requires no licence. Paradoxically, active research on an embryo requires a licence, but passively killing it does not.
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Section 29 permits substituting '$2' for '£1', treating one pound sterling as equivalent to two Australian dollars. This exchange rate is historically inaccurate (the 1966 decimalisation rate was £1 = A$2, which was technically correct at conversion but the provision applies this as an ongoing editorial licence without temporal or contextual limitation, potentially misrepresenting monetary values in laws where the amounts have different purchasing power significance).
Section 37 permits omission of provisions that have 'expired, or otherwise ceased to have effect', while section 38 separately permits omission of saving, transitional and validation provisions that 'apply only to a time or event that has passed'. Section 38 is largely subsumed by section 37 since a saving or transitional provision applying only to a past event has by definition ceased to have operative effect, making section 38 redundant.
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The definition of 'non-sitting senator' in s5(7) is circular and temporally self-referential: it defines the term by reference to 'the day referred to in subsection (1)', but that day is itself defined by reference to a future parliamentary event, making the definition of 'non-sitting senator' impossible to apply until after the fact — yet the term is used operatively in ss(3) and (6) to determine term lengths and allowance entitlements at the time of election.
Section 5(6) purports to fix the commencement of allowances for the 2 non-sitting senators 'first elected' at 1 December 1984 — a specific past date — regardless of when the relevant election actually occurs, potentially requiring allowances to be paid retroactively or, conversely, creating an absurdity if the election has not yet occurred by 1 December 1984.
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Section 107vzk(2) states that a person who has attained the age of 65 years shall not be appointed or re-appointed as a full-time member, and further provides that no appointment shall extend beyond the date the appointee will attain age 65 (for non-Presidents) or 70 (for the President). However, this creates an internal tension: a person exactly at age 65 cannot be appointed (first limb) but the second limb addresses appointments that would 'extend beyond' age 65, implying appointments up to but not beyond that age are valid. The prohibition on appointing someone who 'has attained' age 65 and the limitation on appointments 'extending beyond' age 65 may be read as prohibiting any...
Section 107vzq(7)(b) requires the Governor-General to remove a full-time member who engages in paid employment outside his duties without ministerial consent. Section 107vzq(9) states a member shall not be suspended, removed or retired except as provided by that section. However, s107vzq(7) is framed as a mandatory obligation ('the Governor-General shall remove') triggered automatically by the event, without any process of proof, hearing, or parliamentary address — unlike the elaborate protections in s107vzq(1)-(5). This creates an anomaly where paid outside employment without consent triggers mandatory removal with no procedural safeguard, while even proved misbehaviour requires...
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Sub-section 83(5) as inserted refers to 'sub-section (2) of section [blank]' — the section number is missing from the text ('section to be deemed to be resident in Australia'). The Act contains a drafting error where the section number has been omitted entirely, leaving a syntactically incomplete legislative provision.
Section 24(2) validates decisions made by majority vote before Royal Assent by prescribed Authorities as if the relevant sections 'had been in force when the question was so decided.' This retroactively validates decisions that may have been procedurally invalid under the law as it stood when made — including decisions that may have been challenged or appealed. The retrospective validation could extinguish vested appeal rights that had crystallised under the old law.
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