{"id":"tas:sr-2021-046","name":"Health (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2021","slug":"health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"46 of 2021","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":182287,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2021-046-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 Regulations 2021](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2021-046) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> These regulations take effect on 1 July 2021.","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 amendments effected by this regulation have been incorporated into the authorised version of the [Health (Fees) Regulations 2017](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2017-067) .\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 30 June 2021\n\nThese regulations are administered in the Department of Health.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This appears to be a routine annual or periodic fee update — a standard administrative instrument with no apparent expansion or contraction of scope beyond adjusting existing fee amounts. There is no indication of new services being added or removed from the fee framework."},"complexity_factors":["Amendment-only instrument — requires cross-referencing the principal regulations to understand the full effect","Fee schedules can involve multiple service categories with different rates","Limited substantive content available in the provided text, requiring inference about scope","Interacts with broader Tasmanian health legislation framework"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation amends Tasmania’s Health (Fees) Regulations to update the schedule of fees for certain government health services. It affects Tasmanians who access fee‑bearing services (and the providers who charge them) by changing how much those services cost under law.\n\nThe amendments took effect 1 July 2021; specific fee amounts and which services are changed are not included in the excerpt."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This amendment maintains the original scope of the Health (Fees) Regulations 2017. It is a routine fee update, not an expansion of regulatory reach."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short—only 4 sections","No substantive provisions in the amending instrument itself (amendments incorporated elsewhere)","No defined terms, cross-references to other legislation, or conditional logic within this instrument","Standard boilerplate commencement and citation clauses only"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical amendment to the Health (Fees) Regulations 2017. It updates fees for health-related services or applications, with changes taking effect on 1 July 2021. The actual fee changes are not shown in this document—instead, it directs readers to the updated Principal Regulations where the amendments have been incorporated. This is a standard 'amending instrument' that keeps the fee schedule current without reproducing the entire regulatory scheme."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"On its face the instrument does not change the class of persons or activities regulated; it effects amendments to the Principal Regulations and states those amendments have been incorporated into the authorised version (reg 4). The text provides no explicit expansion or narrowing of regulatory scope; substantive effect therefore depends on the content of the incorporated amendments in the Health (Fees) Regulations 2017 (reg 3). The instrument is administered by the Department of Health (administration noted in the instrument)."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument with no substantive provisions reproduced — users must consult the authorised Health (Fees) Regulations 2017 to see changes (reg 4).","Relies on cross-reference to the Principal Regulations (reg 3), creating a two-step compliance check (this instrument + principal regulations).","Clear commencement date simplifies temporal application but requires retrospective attention for activity from 1 July 2021 (reg 2).","Administrative incorporation statement reduces duplication but obscures amendment details and increases search burden for regulated parties (reg 4).","No schedules, fee tables, or explanatory detail included here, creating potential ambiguity about who pays what until the authorised version is inspected."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations amend the *Health (Fees) Regulations 2017* and commence on 1 July 2021. They affect persons subject to the Health (Fees) Regulations and the Department of Health as administrator by updating the authorised text of those fee rules; the specific amendment text is incorporated into the authorised version rather than reproduced in this instrument."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"While administratively explicable (files are prepared before commencement), the combination of a 30 June 2021 modification date and a 1 July 2021 commencement creates a minor logical tension: the 'current' version was ostensibly frozen before it became current. This is a low-level drafting/publication oddity rather than a substantive legal flaw.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The legislation states it was 'file last modified 30 June 2021' yet is described as 'Version current from 1 July 2021 to date'. The file modification date predates the stated commencement date, meaning the authoritative file was finalised before the instrument formally came into force."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"The 'usually' qualifier undermines the reliability assurance without providing any fallback or caveat about instances where the 3-day standard was not met. Users relying on the 'current to date' representation have no way to identify gaps in currency. This is a transparency/reliability absurdity rather than a substantive legal contradiction.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The disclaimer states legislation 'is usually updated within 3 working days after a change', yet the version is described as current 'to date' (accessed 5 April 2026). This implicitly represents currency across a nearly five-year window with no mechanism disclosed for verifying whether any intervening amendments were actually captured within the promised 3-working-day window."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - File last modified 30 June 2021","section_b":"Status Information - Version current from 1 July 2021","confidence":0.5,"description":"The file is recorded as last modified on 30 June 2021, but the version is stated to be current only from 1 July 2021. If the file has not been modified since 30 June 2021, it cannot reflect any changes that may have been required to make it operative from 1 July 2021, creating a minor but identifiable inconsistency between the document's physical state and its legal operative date."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021","history":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-fees-amendment-regulations-2021/documents"}}