{"id":"C2006A00125","name":"Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Act 2006","slug":"corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"125 of 2006","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":27248,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2006A00125-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title [see Note 1]","content":"#### 1 Short title \\[see Note 1\\]\n\n This Act may be cited as the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Act 2006.","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"#### 2 Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n```html\n

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision(s)

Commencement

Date/Details

1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

4 November 2006

2. Schedules 1, 2 and 3

At the same time as the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 commences.

1 July 2007

\n```\n\n> Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.\n\n (2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Schedule(s)","content":"#### 3 Schedule(s)\n\n Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.","sortOrder":2}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act appears to have remained within its original intended scope — it is a standard consequential and transitional measures Act designed solely to support the commencement of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006. Nothing in the visible provisions suggests scope expansion beyond that purpose."},"complexity_factors":["The Act itself has minimal substantive content — complexity resides in the Schedules, which are not reproduced here","Staggered commencement dates (some provisions started 4 November 2006, Schedules started 1 July 2007) require careful reading","The Act's effect depends entirely on understanding the parent Act (Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006) and the other Acts it amends or repeals","The transitional nature means its practical impact must be assessed alongside the laws it modifies, not in isolation"],"plain_english_summary":"## What This Law Does\n\nThis is a **companion (or 'machinery') law** that supported the introduction of the *Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006* — a major law that created a dedicated system for registering and governing corporations (organised groups with legal standing) run by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.\n\n## What It Actually Contains\n\nThe Act itself is essentially a **vehicle for three Schedules** (attached lists of changes), which:\n- **Amended** (updated/modified) other existing laws to align them with the new Indigenous corporations framework\n- **Repealed** (abolished) old laws that were replaced by the new system\n- Handled **transitional arrangements** — the practical steps for moving from the old system to the new one (e.g., what happens to corporations that were already registered under the old rules)\n\n## Who It Affects\n\n- **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations** that operate as incorporated bodies (legal groups, such as land councils, community organisations, or enterprises)\n- **Government agencies and regulators** that deal with these organisations\n- **Lawyers and administrators** managing the changeover from the old registration system\n\n## Why It Matters\n\nWithout this companion Act, the main 2006 law couldn't work cleanly — old laws would have conflicted with the new ones, and existing Indigenous corporations would have had no clear path into the new system. Think of it as the **administrative plumbing** behind a major legal reform."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the text provided, the Act does not expand or alter its original scope; it fixes the short title (section 1), specifies commencement timing for identified provisions and Schedules (section 2 and the table), and provides that the Schedules amend or repeal Acts as set out (section 3). The commencement table and its accompanying notes make clear they relate only to the provisions as originally passed and will not be expanded to cover later insertions, indicating the Act’s operational scope remains as originally enacted."},"complexity_factors":["Commencement mechanics laid out in a table with different start dates for different parts (section 2 and table).","Dependence on Schedules for substantive legal change — the Act delegates complexity to the Schedules (section 3).","Synchronization requirement: some Schedules commence at the same time as another Act, creating inter-legislative dependency (section 2 and table).","Editorial note that parts of the published commencement table (Column 3) are not part of the Act and may be edited, posing risk of confusion between operative text and editorial material (section 2(2) and table note).","The table explicitly applies only to provisions as originally passed, so later insertions are outside its scope — adds a drafting and interpretation constraint (table note)."],"plain_english_summary":"This short Act does three administrative things.\n\n- What it does mechanically\n - Gives the Act a short title: \"Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Act 2006\" (section 1).\n - Sets when parts of the Act start (section 2 and the commencement table). Sections 1–3 and anything not otherwise covered began on the day the Act received Royal Assent (4 November 2006). Schedules 1, 2 and 3 were set to commence on 1 July 2007 at the same time as the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (section 2 and the table).\n - States that each Act listed in a Schedule is amended or repealed as specified in that Schedule, and that other items in the Schedules operate according to their text (section 3).\n\n- Who this affects and who decides\n - Entities or people named in the Schedules are affected because the Schedules amend or repeal provisions in other Acts (section 3). The text of those Schedules determines the substantive legal change.\n - Parliament (by passing this Act and its Schedules) sets the legal changes and the commencement dates (section 2). Administrative officers must give effect to those commencements and implement the amendments when they start.\n\n- Why it matters (stated purpose and practical testing)\n - The Act’s title and structure indicate it is intended to make consequential and transitional changes linked to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006. That purpose is enacted mechanically by fixing commencement dates and by making the Schedule-based amendments to other Acts (sections 1–3).\n - Costs and who pays: the Act itself does not create new taxes or fees in these clauses, but the parties named in the Schedules will bear legal and compliance costs caused by the amendments or repeals when they commence (section 3). Administrative bodies that apply or register corporate entities affected will incur implementation work around the commencement dates (section 2).\n - Incentives and behaviour: by synchronising the Schedules’ commencement with the main Corporations Act (section 2), the instrument channels the timing of legal change so that affected persons and administrators must adapt by the stated start date. The Schedules (not reproduced here) determine any substantive changes in incentives for businesses or individuals (section 3).\n - Trade-offs and opportunity cost: the Act prioritises a coordinated legal transition (synchronised commencements) over a staggered rollout. That concentrates the timing risk on the commencement dates identified in section 2 and the table.\n - Implementation risk and administrative discretion: alignment of Schedules with the main Act creates a dependency — administrative failure to implement or communicate the Schedule changes by the listed commencement date would create legal and practical disruption. The Act’s text also notes that Column 3 of the commencement table is additional editorial information and is not part of the Act; published versions may edit that information (section 2(2) and the table note). That distinction can cause confusion unless publishers and administrators are careful to separate editorial notes from operative law.\n - Compliance burden and private choice: the burden and effect on private choice depend on the content of the Schedules (section 3). This Act delegates substantive changes to those Schedules; the clauses provided here only set the timing and confirm that the Schedules alter other Acts as written.\n\n- Practical summary\n - This Act mainly sets the short title, fixes when its parts start, and makes Schedules effective to amend or repeal other Acts. The substantive legal effects flow from those Schedules; sections 1–3 implement and time those effects and clarify how the commencement information is to be treated in published versions (sections 1–3)."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"2(2)","severity":"low","reasoning":"Section 2(1) states that provisions commence 'in accordance with column 2 of the table' and that 'any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.' Column 3 is then declared by s2(2) to not be part of the Act and to be merely editable supplementary information. However, the commencement table as presented structurally integrates Columns 2 and 3, and Column 3 records the actual dates. If Column 3 is not part of the Act and can be 'added to or edited,' there is a latent inconsistency: the dates in Column 3 could be altered without legislative amendment, yet they record what are meant to be fixed historical facts (Royal Assent date, CATSI Act commencement). This creates a self-referential tension where the Act disclaims the very date-recording mechanism it implicitly relies upon for interpretive clarity.","confidence":0.62,"description":"Column 3 of the commencement table is declared to not be part of this Act, yet section 2(1) directs readers to the table (including Column 3) as operative commencement information, and Column 3 contains the actual dates relied upon in practice."},{"type":"circular_definition","section":"2(1) - Table Row 1","severity":"low","reasoning":"Row 1 of the commencement table specifies that 'Sections 1 to 3' commence on Royal Assent. Section 2 is the provision that gives operative effect to that very table. For s2 to govern its own commencement, it must already be in force to be read, but its being in force depends on reading it. This is a well-known structural quirk of commencement tables in Australian legislation and is generally resolved by the common law presumption that commencement provisions take effect on assent, but the logical circularity remains a formal absurdity.","confidence":0.55,"description":"Section 2 itself (the commencement provision) is listed in the table as commencing on Royal Assent, meaning the mechanism that determines when section 2 commences is contained within section 2 — a bootstrapping circularity."},{"type":"other","section":"3","severity":"low","reasoning":"Section 3 commences with sections 1 and 2 on Royal Assent (4 November 2006) per Row 1 of the table. It states that each Act specified in a Schedule 'is amended or repealed as set out.' However, Schedules 1, 2 and 3 do not commence until 1 July 2007. For approximately 8 months, section 3 is a live operative provision directing amendments and repeals by reference to Schedules that have no legal existence yet. This is not impossible in practice (courts read the Act as a whole), but it produces a textual absurdity where an operative provision points to non-existent content.","confidence":0.58,"description":"Section 3 purports to give effect to Schedules that do not commence until 1 July 2007, yet section 3 itself commences on 4 November 2006, creating a period where section 3 is in force but has nothing operative to act upon."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"2(1) Table Row 1 (Sections 1 to 3 commence on Royal Assent)","section_b":"2(2) (Column 3 is not part of this Act and may be edited)","confidence":0.6,"description":"The Act simultaneously treats the Column 3 dates as authoritative historical records (fixing Royal Assent at 4 November 2006) while declaring Column 3 editable and not part of the Act, meaning the 'authoritative' date of commencement of the Act's own core provisions rests on content that is disclaimed as non-binding and alterable."}]},"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"source":"grok-batch-everything"},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard consequential, transitional and machinery statute whose scope has remained confined to facilitating the primary CATSI Act. It has not expanded beyond supporting amendments, transition mechanics and related tidying-up."},"complexity_factors":["Commencement table applying different dates to different provisions with a 'not elsewhere covered' catch-all","Heavy reliance on separate Schedules whose detailed amendment items are not reproduced in the excerpt","Multiple cross-references to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 without spelling out the interaction"],"plain_english_summary":"**This legislation supports the rollout of a new corporate governance system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups.**\n\nIt is a supporting (or 'machinery') Act that sets its own short title, fixes the start dates for its rules, and brings into effect a series of changes to other Commonwealth laws. The real work happens in Schedules 1, 2 and 3, which amend or repeal parts of existing legislation, create transitional rules for organisations moving from the old Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 system, and tidy up loose ends so the new Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 operates smoothly. \n\nThe changes began on 1 July 2007 (the same day the main Act started). It affects Indigenous community organisations, their boards, members and the government registrar by making sure the switch to the new tailored corporations regime does not leave gaps in legal recognition, tax treatment, native title processes or funding arrangements. It matters because hundreds of community-controlled groups delivering health, housing, education and cultural services in remote Australia needed a orderly move to the new framework without losing their legal status or having to re-register from scratch."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act","history":"/api/acts/corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act/history","analysis":"/api/acts/corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/corporations-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-consequential-transitional-and-other-measures-act/documents"}}