Logical flaws, contradictions, and impossible compliance requirements found by AI analysis across Australian legislation.
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Section 81 permits a notice requiring a plan that may not satisfy the exhaustive definition of “property fire management plan”.
Source evidence
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.
Section 84 permits notices requiring plans that may not satisfy the exhaustive definition of “property fire management plan”.
Source evidence
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;
An Order fixing only the total Council membership ends the pending composition rule but leaves required category numbers unfixed.
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(1) The Council consists of the fixed number of members being—
(a) the official members; and
(b) a fixed number of at least 4 government appointed members; and
(c) a minimum of one or any other greater fixed number of Council appointed members; and
(d) the elected members.
(1) Until an Order in Council is made under section 63 for the purposes of section 11, the Council consists of at least 13 but no more than 21 persons being—
(a) fixing the number of members of the Council or the number of government appointed members and Council appointed members of the Council for the purposes of section 11;
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 permitted withdrawal-and-reapplication path is operatively futile.
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If an application is withdrawn under this section, the applicant may, subject to section 23, reapply for assistance.
an earlier application for assistance by the applicant in any capacity arising from the same act of violence has been made, whether or not the earlier application has been determined.
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.
Section 66 purports to transfer succession and membership to a new Committee on a fixed commencement date without ensuring that the Committee exists on that date.
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(3) The Minister may make the Order under section 8 in accordance with Part 2 if—
***new Committee*** means a Committee established by an Order referred to in section 19B to provide for citrus fruit grown or produced in the Murray Valley production area or a Committee established by Order under section 8 to provide for citrus fruit grown or produced in that part of the MurrayValy
(1) On the commencement of section 21 of the **Agricultural Industry Development (Further Amendment) Act 2002**—
(a) the old Board is abolished and the new Committee is the successor in law of the old Board;
(b) the members of the old Board become the first members of the new Committee and those m
The definition uses the undefined temporal reference “commencement of the amendment Regulations”.
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repealed sanitation Regulations means the Public Health
(General Sanitation, Mosquito Prevention, Rat Exclusion and
Prevention) Regulations 1960 in force before the commencement of
the amendment Regulations.
An existing approval of installation of a septic tank continues in
force after the commencement day as if the approval were a
wastewater works installation approval under regulation 82.
existing approval of installation of a septic tank means an
approval granted under regulation 27 of the repealed sanitation
Regulations.
The authority for a prescribed non-medical person to remove tissue outside a hospital is circular.
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An authority under section 26 is sufficient authority—
for a prescribed person or a person belonging to a prescribed class of persons to remove tissue, or a prescribed class of tissue, from the body of a deceased person in accordance with—
a registered medical practitioner and a person with an authority given under section 25(b) are authorized, subject to and in accordance with this section, to remove tissue from the body of the deceased person—
The disposal trigger refers to “the later of the publications under clause (4)”, but clause (4) creates no publications. The two publications are required by clause (5).
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A certificate under clause (3)(b) is evidence of the matters set out in it.
After the expiration of 28 days after the impoundment, the clerk is to cause notice of the impoundment to be published in a newspaper generally circulating in the municipality and, if the owner of the trolley does not respond within 7 days after that publication of the notice, is to publish the same
The cancellation trigger relies on evidence being assembled and given as required by section 434(1), but the supplied Act contains no section 434.
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evidence of an offence or offences committed by only one person has been assembled and given as required by section 434(1) and criminal proceedings have begun against that person;
Where the ACC, in carrying out an ACC operation/investigation, obtains evidence of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory, being evidence that would be admissible in a prosecution for the offence, the CEO must assemble the evidence and give it to—
the notation contained in the summons or notice is cancelled by section 21(4);
Regulation 25(1) permits departure only with CEO approval and only for listed purposes. Form 11 states that the youth may leave as permitted by either the CEO or a community youth justice officer, without reproducing the listed-purpose limit. The prescribed order therefore grants broader permission than regulation 25(1).
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The youth must not leave the premises or place specified in the alternative detention order except as approved by the CEO to attend:
For section 83(1)(j) of the Act, Form 11 of Schedule 2 is an alternative detention order.
the youth must not leave the premises or place specified above during the period the order remains in force, except as permitted by the Chief Executive Officer or a community youth justice officer;
An Order fixing only government-appointed and Council-appointed membership numbers ends the pending composition rule but leaves total Council membership unfixed.
Source evidence
(1) The Council consists of the fixed number of members being—
(a) the official members; and
(b) a fixed number of at least 4 government appointed members; and
(c) a minimum of one or any other greater fixed number of Council appointed members; and
(d) the elected members.
(1) Until an Order in Council is made under section 63 for the purposes of section 11, the Council consists of at least 13 but no more than 21 persons being—
(a) fixing the number of members of the Council or the number of government appointed members and Council appointed members of the Council for the purposes of section 11;
Source evidence
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.
Source evidence
if the total distance to be travelled is less than 56 kilometres –
at least 8 kilometres each day.
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If an application lapses under this section, the applicant may, subject to section 23, reapply for assistance.
an earlier application for assistance by the applicant in any capacity arising from the same act of violence has been made, whether or not the earlier application has been determined.
A step-in notice gives the Territory Coordinator—or a substituted Minister—responsibility for completing a decision or process while prohibiting that person from taking the action needed to complete it.
Source evidence
the Coordinator becomes the responsible entity under the
relevant law for the decision or process from the time the
step-in notice is given until the Coordinator finishes making
the decision or undertaking the process;
no person (including the original entity) may take any action in
relation to the decision or process, other than to comply with
section 72, until the Coordinator gives a notice of completion
under section 74;
When the Territory Coordinator finishes making a statutory decision
or undertaking a statutory process under this Division, the
Coordinator must give written notice to the applicant and the
original entity for the decision or process.