{"id":"tas:sr-2025-007","name":"Health (Fees) Amendment (Dental) Regulations (No. 2) 2025","slug":"health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"7 of 2025","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":174219,"registerId":"tas-sr-2025-007-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> These regulations may be cited as the [Health (Fees) Amendment (Dental) Regulations (No. 2) 2025](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2025-007) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> These regulations take effect 14 days after the day on which their making is notified in the *Gazette*.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Principal Regulations","content":"### 3 Principal Regulations\n\n> In these regulations, the [Health (Fees) Regulations 2017](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2017-067) are referred to as the Principal Regulations.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4.","sectionType":"section","heading":null,"content":"### 4.\n\n> The amendment effected by this regulation has been incorporated into the authorised version of the [Health (Fees) Regulations 2017](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2017-067) .","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Legislation rescinded","content":"### 5 Legislation rescinded\n\n> The legislation specified in [Schedule 1](#JS1@EN) is rescinded.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation resci","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation rescinded","content":"# SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation resci SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation rescinded\n\n[Regulation 5](#GS5@EN)\n\n| Health (Fees) Amendment (Dental) Regulations 2025 (No. 6 of 2025) |\n\nDisplayed and numbered in accordance with the *[Rules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 March 2025\n\nThese regulations are administered in the Department of Health.","sortOrder":5}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available text, this regulation stays firmly within its original intent — amending dental fee schedules under the Health (Fees) Regulations. It is the second such amendment in 2025, suggesting it follows a routine and expected pattern of periodic fee updates rather than any expansion or contraction of regulatory scope."},"complexity_factors":["The regulation appears to be a straightforward fee schedule amendment — a routine administrative instrument","No substantive policy change is evident from the available text; it updates numbers within an existing framework","The full fee schedule/table content was not included in the provided text, limiting full analysis but also suggesting the instrument itself is not structurally complex","Affects a narrow, well-defined subject matter (dental fees in the Tasmanian public health system)","No apparent interaction with complex multi-jurisdictional frameworks"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation updates the fees charged for public dental services in Tasmania, changing what patients pay when using government-run dental care. It affects Tasmanians who rely on public clinics—especially concession card holders and low-income patients—and the providers who deliver those services.\n\nThe change took effect on 26 March 2025; the actual fee schedule wasn’t included, so specific amounts aren’t provided here."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information / Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"A legislative instrument purporting to record an access date of 5 April 2026 while being modified in March 2025 creates an internal temporal inconsistency. If the access date is genuine, the document is being presented as a future-accessed version, which raises questions about whether the 'current' version metadata is reliable or has been auto-generated incorrectly. This is not a drafting absurdity in the operative provisions per se, but it is a logical inconsistency in the instrument's own status information.","confidence":0.62,"description":"The document states it was 'accessed 5 April 2026 at 11:36' yet the file was last modified on 17 March 2025 and the version is current from 26 March 2025. The access date of 5 April 2026 appears in the metadata of a document analysed in 2025, suggesting either a future-dated access timestamp or a metadata error that undermines the document's claimed currency."},{"type":"other","section":"Title / Heading (repeated throughout)","severity":"high","reasoning":"An amending regulation that appears to contain no operative provisions — only duplicated metadata and status information — cannot logically fulfil its stated purpose of amending dental fees under the Health (Fees) Act. If the operative content is absent, the instrument as presented is legally incoherent: it purports to amend something but contains nothing to effect that amendment. This may reflect a publication failure rather than a drafting flaw, but as presented the document is logically incomplete.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The instrument's title and all major headings are duplicated verbatim multiple times throughout the document (e.g., 'Health (Fees) Amendment (Dental) Regulations (No. 2) 2025' appears at least four times as a heading; 'Status Information', 'Currency of version', 'Table of Amending Instruments', 'Responsible Minister and Department', and 'Authorisation' each appear duplicated). This structural redundancy suggests either a serious formatting/publication error or that the operative provisions of the instrument have been omitted entirely from the version presented."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information – File last modified 17 March 2025","section_b":"Status Information – Version current from 26 March 2025 to date (accessed 5 April 2026 at 11:36)","confidence":0.58,"description":"The file is recorded as last modified on 17 March 2025, yet the version is stated to be current from 26 March 2025. A file that was last modified before its own commencement date has not been updated to reflect the version it claims to represent, creating a logical inconsistency: the document cannot simultaneously be the authoritative current version from 26 March 2025 and have been last modified nine days prior to that date without any intervening change."}]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation maintains its narrow, technical purpose of repealing spent regulations. There is no scope creep; it does exactly what it says on the tin."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short — only 5 regulations plus a single-item schedule","No defined terms beyond a simple reference to 'Principal Regulations'","No conditional logic, exceptions, or substantive operative provisions","Single mechanical operation: rescinding one earlier instrument","No cross-references to other Acts or complex statutory frameworks"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations are a housekeeping amendment that cleans up earlier dental fee changes. They formally repeal (cancel) an earlier set of regulations — the Health (Fees) Amendment (Dental) Regulations 2025 (No. 6 of 2025) — because those changes have now been permanently added to the main Health (Fees) Regulations 2017. Think of it like deleting a temporary draft after you've saved the final version. The regulations don't introduce any new fees or rules themselves; they simply tidy up the statute book to avoid confusion from having duplicate or overlapping rules."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument amends and consolidates provisions into the authorised Health (Fees) Regulations 2017 and rescinds a prior amendment (regs 3–5; Schedule 1). The text shows no indication it expands or contracts the substantive scope of the principal regulations; it serves to update and consolidate rather than to alter the range of regulated matters."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument with no standalone substantive fee provisions (only references the Principal Regulations)","Cross-references to the Health (Fees) Regulations 2017 and an authorised consolidated version (requires consulting external text)","Rescission of a prior amending instrument (Schedule 1) creates a dependency on historical instruments for change history","Simple commencement rule (14 days after Gazette notification) limits timing complexity","Administrative details only (title, commencement, administration) — low interpretive burden"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation amends the Health (Fees) Regulations 2017 to update dental-fees-related rules and rescinds a prior Dental Amendment (No. 6 of 2025). It takes effect 14 days after the day its making is notified in the Gazette and is administered by the Department of Health (regs 1–5; Schedule 1).\n\nThe instrument does not reproduce detailed amendment text here because those changes have been incorporated into the authorised, consolidated version of the principal regulations; fee payers and regulated providers must consult that consolidated instrument for the operative rules."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025","history":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-dental-regulations-no-2-2025/documents"}}