{"id":"tas:sr-2023-003","name":"COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Emergency Cessation Day) Notice 2023","slug":"covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"3 of 2023","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":177089,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2023-003-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This notice may be cited as the [COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Emergency Cessation Day) Notice 2023](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2023-003) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This notice takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the *Gazette*.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Emergency cessation day","content":"### 3 Emergency cessation day\n\n> For the purposes of the [COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2020-011) , 30 April 2023 is declared to be the emergency cessation day.\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 15 February 2023\n\nThis notice is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":2}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the substantive scope of the COVID‑19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020. It performs a single, declaratory function — fixing the Act's emergency cessation day as 30 April 2023 (s 3) and specifying commencement on Gazette notification (s 2) — and therefore ends the Act's emergency period rather than expanding or contracting the Act's legal powers."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: s 3 simply declares the emergency cessation day (30 April 2023).","Simple commencement rule: s 2 ties effect to Gazette notification, creating a clear trigger for legal effect.","Declaratory instrument only: the notice does not amend substantive provisions of the 2020 Act, limiting legal complexity.","Dependence on an external Act: full practical effects require reading the COVID‑19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 to see which measures end and what reversion entails (s 3).","Low compliance burden in form, but potential administrative work for agencies and private parties to unwind temporary measures when the cessation date takes effect."],"plain_english_summary":"This short notice declares 30 April 2023 to be the ‘emergency cessation day’ under the COVID‑19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 and takes effect once it is notified in the Gazette. Mechanically, it fixes the date on which the Act’s emergency period ends, so agencies, businesses and individuals who have been operating under its temporary measures must revert to ordinary legal rules and related compliance obligations from that date."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The notice does exactly what it was designed to do — declare the cessation day for the COVID-19 emergency under the parent Act. There is no evidence of scope creep or departure from the original legislative intent."},"complexity_factors":["Very short and narrow in scope — it does only one thing: declare a date","Requires knowledge of the parent Act (COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act) to fully understand the downstream legal consequences","The actual legal complexity lies in the parent Act, not this notice itself","No definitions, schedules, or substantive provisions to parse"],"plain_english_summary":"This notice declares 15 February 2023 as Tasmania’s official \"Emergency Cessation Day,\" ending the COVID-19 disease emergency under the Act. It stops the special emergency powers and temporary COVID-era rules that applied to businesses, government agencies and individuals, and fixes the legal cutoff for when emergency modifications to rights, duties or protections ceased to operate."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This notice performs exactly the function intended by its parent Act — providing a mechanism to declare when the emergency ends. There is no scope creep; it is a straightforward termination instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 3 operative sections","Zero defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation beyond naming the parent Act","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Single substantive action: declaring a fixed date"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short official notice that **ends Tasmania's COVID-19 state of emergency**.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Declares **30 April 2023** as the \"emergency cessation day\" — the official end date for Tasmania's pandemic emergency powers.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone previously subject to Tasmania's COVID-19 emergency laws (public health orders, mask mandates, border restrictions, etc.)\n- Government agencies that were exercising special powers under the *COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020*\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- This notice acts like an \"off switch\" for Tasmania's pandemic emergency framework. After 30 April 2023, the government could no longer use the extraordinary powers granted under the 2020 Act — things like compulsory quarantine, forced testing, or sweeping public health directions without normal parliamentary scrutiny.\n- It represents the formal legal conclusion of Tasmania's emergency response to COVID-19, returning public health measures to ordinary legislative processes."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Title / General","severity":"medium","reasoning":"If the instrument's entire purpose is to declare the day on which an emergency ends, it logically has no ongoing operative effect beyond that singular nominated day. Its continued publication as 'current' legislation three-plus years later suggests either the cessation day was never reached, the notice is legally redundant but not repealed, or the consolidation system treats spent instruments as perpetually 'current', which is a systemic absurdity.","confidence":0.72,"description":"A 'COVID-19 Disease Emergency' notice designating an 'Emergency Cessation Day' was enacted in February 2023, yet the version metadata states it remains 'current to date' as accessed in April 2026 — over three years after the emergency ostensibly ceased. A notice whose sole operative purpose is to end an emergency should be temporally self-exhausting upon the cessation day it declares."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information — Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"Legislative currency implies ongoing legal effect or relevance. A static, unamended instrument that declared a single past event (emergency cessation) has no dynamic currency. Describing it as 'current to date' conflates archival availability with operative legal force.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The instrument states it is 'current from 15 February 2023 to date' while simultaneously noting the file was last modified on 15 February 2023. If no amendments have been made and no operative provisions remain active after the cessation day is passed, the instrument cannot meaningfully be described as having currency extending to April 2026."},{"type":"retroactive_impossibility","section":"Table of Amending Instruments","severity":"medium","reasoning":"If the Emergency Cessation Day has passed and the emergency has legally ended on that declared date, any subsequent amendment purporting to change that date would attempt to alter a completed historical legal fact. It would be logically impossible to retroactively un-cease an emergency or to shift the cessation day to one that has already passed, raising questions about what any amendment to this instrument could validly achieve.","confidence":0.68,"description":"The notice references a 'Table of Amendments' for an instrument that, by its very nature as a once-only declaratory notice fixing a cessation day, should be incapable of substantive amendment without logical contradiction. Amending the cessation day after the fact would either retroactively resurrect or retroactively extend a disease emergency."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Title — 'Emergency Cessation Day Notice 2023'","section_b":"Status Information — 'Version current from 15 February 2023 to date (accessed 5 April 2026)'","confidence":0.7,"description":"The instrument's title implies a finite, once-off declaratory function (declaring the day the emergency ceased), yet the status information treats it as a living instrument with ongoing currency spanning over three years. These two characterisations are mutually inconsistent: a spent declaratory instrument cannot simultaneously be a currently operative piece of legislation."},{"severity":"low","section_a":"Authorisation — 'File last modified 15 February 2023'","section_b":"Table of Amending Instruments — existence of an amendments table","confidence":0.55,"description":"The file modification date of 15 February 2023 indicates no changes have been made to the instrument since commencement, yet the provision of a formal 'Table of Amending Instruments' presupposes the possibility or actuality of amendments. These two pieces of metadata are in tension: one suggests immutability, the other implies an amendment framework exists or has been used."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023","history":"/api/acts/covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023/history","analysis":"/api/acts/covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/covid-19-disease-emergency-miscellaneous-provisions-emergency-cessation-day-notice-2023/documents"}}