{"id":"tas:sr-1999-043","name":"Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Order 1999","slug":"building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"43 of 1999","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":318986,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-1999-043-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This order may be cited as the [Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Order 1999](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-9999-999) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This order takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the *Gazette*.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Principal Act","content":"### 3 Principal Act\n\n> In this order, the [Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Act 1990](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1990-038) is referred to as the Principal Act.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4.","sectionType":"section","heading":null,"content":"### 4.\n\n> The amendments effected by this clause have been incorporated into the authorised version of the [Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Act 1990](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1990-038) .\n\nDisplayed and numbered in accordance with the *[Rules Publication Act 1953](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1953-050)*.\n\nNotified in the *Gazette* on 12 May 1999\n\nThis order is administered in the Department of Education.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Order does not change the substantive scope of the Principal Act. It provides formal citation, commencement timing (Gazette notification) and a publishing/integration note; it does not introduce new duties, fees or regulatory powers."},"complexity_factors":["Instrument is procedural (citation and commencement) rather than substantive","Short text with few operative clauses","Dependency on the Principal Act for substantive effect","Commencement tied to Gazette notification (executive timing discretion)","Note of incorporation into authorised version — minor interpretive/legal publishing effect","No creation of new regulatory obligations or financial mechanisms"],"plain_english_summary":"This Order formally names the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Act 1990, sets its start rule (it begins on the day its making is notified in the Gazette), and records that amendments have been incorporated into the authorised version of the Act. It is administered by the Department of Education.\n\nMechanically, it governs citation, commencement and publication only; it does not itself create new duties, fees or substantive regulatory rules."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A file modification date of 22 November 2024 is inconsistent with a claim of an unbroken single version since 12 May 1999, unless all modifications were purely administrative or formatting changes. The legislation provides no mechanism to distinguish substantive from administrative modifications, leaving compliance actors unable to determine whether the version they are reading is legally operative.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The legislation states it has been 'current from 12 May 1999 to date' with no amendments reflected in the body of the instrument, yet the file was 'last modified 22 November 2024'. This creates an internal tension: if the file was modified in 2024, the version currency claim suggests either the modification was non-substantive (unexplained) or the amendment table is suppressed from view."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Update Policy","severity":"low","reasoning":"The currency assurance is partially self-defeating: it promises timely updates but embeds the verification mechanism (amendment table) outside the instrument. This is not a legal contradiction per se but is a structural absurdity in legislative publication design that could cause a reader to mistakenly treat an outdated version as current.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The site states legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change', but the Table of Amendments is not reproduced in the provided text — it requires a separate hyperlink click. A reader relying solely on this instrument cannot verify currency without external navigation, undermining the utility of the currency statement itself."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('current from 12 May 1999 to date')","section_b":"Authorisation - File last modified 22 November 2024","confidence":0.5,"description":"The version is described as continuously current since 12 May 1999 with no indication of amendment in the body, yet the file was modified on 22 November 2024 — approximately 25 years later. If the instrument is truly unamended, no file modification should be necessary beyond original publication. If it was substantively modified, the version currency descriptor is misleading."}]},"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available metadata, the instrument appears to have remained focused on its original purpose of establishing and governing a training fund levy for the Tasmanian building and construction industry. No scope expansion is evident from the information provided, though the full amendment history was not reviewable in this extract."},"complexity_factors":["Limited legislative text was provided — only status and metadata, not the operative provisions — making full analysis impossible","Involves a financial levy mechanism which can have calculation and threshold complexity","Has been in force since 1999 and amended multiple times, potentially introducing layered obligations","Interaction with broader Tasmanian building and construction regulatory framework may add complexity","Relatively narrow and industry-specific scope keeps overall complexity low"],"plain_english_summary":"The Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Order 1999 establishes a levy on qualifying building work in Tasmania to finance a fund for apprenticeships, trade training and workforce upskilling in the construction sector. It affects builders, developers and contractors who must pay the levy, and the workers and training organisations who benefit; it’s been in force since 12 May 1999."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard amending instrument that operates within its expected scope. It makes amendments to the principal Act as intended, without expanding beyond the original purpose of the training fund legislation."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short—only 4 clauses total","No defined terms beyond standard legislative machinery ('Principal Act', 'Gazette')","No substantive operative provisions—the actual amendments are not reproduced in the order itself (incorporated by reference into the main Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic citation machinery","Purely procedural/amending instrument with no standalone regulatory content"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical piece of legislation that makes changes to the **Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Act 1990**.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Officially titled the *Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Order 1999*\n- Amends the principal Act (the main law it relates to)\n- The specific changes have already been merged into the current version of the 1990 Act, so this order itself doesn't contain the actual text of the amendments\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Employers and workers in the building and construction industry in Australia (specifically, this appears to relate to Western Australian legislation based on the training fund context)\n- The Department of Education (which administers this order)\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Training funds ensure money is collected from employers to pay for apprenticeships and skills training in the construction industry\n- This order updates the rules for how that fund operates\n- Because the amendments are already incorporated into the main Act, this document is now mainly of historical interest—it shows when and how the law was changed, but you need to look at the 1990 Act itself to see the current rules"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999","history":"/api/acts/building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999/history","analysis":"/api/acts/building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/building-and-construction-industry-training-fund-order-1999/documents"}}