{"id":"tas:act-2025-011","name":"Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment (Sensitive Disclosures) Act 2025","slug":"land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"11 of 2025","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":31416,"registerId":"tas-act-2025-011-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This Act may be cited as the [Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment (Sensitive Disclosures) Act 2025](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2025-011) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Principal Act","content":"### 3 Principal Act\n\n> In this Act, the [Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1993-070) is referred to as the Principal Act.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4.","sectionType":"section","heading":null,"content":"### 4.\n\n> The amendments effected by this section have been incorporated into the authorised version of the [Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1993-070) .","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Repeal of Act","content":"### 5 Repeal of Act\n\n> This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of the day on which it commenced.","sortOrder":4}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The text of this amending Act does not itself set out substantive policy or regulatory changes; it records that amendments have been incorporated into the authorised version of the Principal Act (s 4) but does not disclose those amendments. Therefore, based on the instrument alone there is no identifiable change in substantive scope from the Principal Act’s existing intent; the Act’s effects are procedural (commencement, incorporation, temporary repeal) (ss 2–5)."},"complexity_factors":["Temporal limitation: automatic repeal one year after commencement creates a time‑limited legal effect and potential transitional or sunset complexities (s 5).","Absence of in‑text substantive amendments: the Act does not set out specific changes; it relies on an external authorised version, increasing reliance on consolidation and access to the authorised text (s 4).","Cross‑reference dependence: the instrument operates by amending the Principal Act and so requires readers to consult the Principal Act to determine practical effects (s 3).","Immediate commencement on Royal Assent reduces implementation lead time for affected parties and administrators (s 2).","Administrative and compliance burden: agencies and stakeholders must implement amended rules and then potentially revert or adjust when the Act repeals, producing administrative costs (ss 2, 5)."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act amends the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 and takes effect on the day it receives Royal Assent (s 2). It records that the substantive changes have been incorporated into the authorised version (s 4) and automatically repeals itself one year after commencement (s 5). The mechanical effect is to alter the Principal Act’s text for a limited period, affecting agencies, applicants and others subject to that Act."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This appears to be a standard amendment Act with a narrow, specific purpose (adding sensitive disclosure provisions to planning law). The scope aligns with the title and intent. No evidence of scope creep in this vehicle Act itself, though the substantive amendments in the Principal Act are not visible here."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short — only 5 sections","No defined terms within this Act itself (relies entirely on the Principal Act)","No conditional logic or nested exceptions in this amending Act","Simple, standard structure for an amendment Act: short title, commencement, principal Act identification, amendments (incorporated elsewhere), repeal","Self-repealing mechanism is straightforward and common in Australian jurisdictions"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical piece of legislation that makes changes to Tasmania's main planning law, the *Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993*.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Amends the principal planning Act to add new rules about \"sensitive disclosures\" — likely requiring certain information to be kept confidential or disclosed only under specific conditions in planning matters.\n- The actual changes are not shown in this document; they have already been merged into the main Act's official version.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- People involved in land use planning decisions in Tasmania — including developers, local councils, planning tribunal members, and government agencies.\n- Anyone whose planning applications or submissions might contain sensitive information that needs protection.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- It creates a legal framework for handling confidential or sensitive information in planning processes. This could protect commercial secrets, personal details, or culturally sensitive information from inappropriate disclosure.\n- The Act automatically deletes itself one year after starting (a \"self-repealing\" provision), which is a common way to handle amendments that don't need to stay on the books once the changes are absorbed into the main law.\n\n**Key features:**\n- **Self-repealing**: Disappears after 12 months — it's purely a vehicle for amendments.\n- **Incorporation by reference**: The actual changes live in the main Act, not here.\n- **Immediate start**: Begins as soon as the Governor gives Royal Assent (formal approval)."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information / Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"A legislative instrument's status information should reflect verifiable, static facts at the time of enactment or consolidation. Embedding a future access timestamp (April 2026) in a document last modified June 2025 is logically inconsistent — the access date cannot be contemporaneous with the file modification date, and baking a future access timestamp into the body of the legislation conflates dynamic retrieval metadata with static legislative content.","confidence":0.82,"description":"The legislation states it is 'accessed 1 April 2026 at 23:05' but the file was 'last modified 16 June 2025'. The access date of 1 April 2026 is in the future relative to any reasonable drafting or enactment date, yet is treated as a present-tense access timestamp embedded in the legislation itself, creating a document that purports to be simultaneously historical and future-dated."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Title / Long Title","severity":"high","reasoning":"The short title of an Act is a legally operative provision used for citation purposes. If the short title is inconsistent within the Act itself, it is impossible to determine the correct citation name, creating uncertainty as to which title would be used in legal proceedings, cross-references, and subsidiary legislation. This is not merely a typographical oddity — it goes to the fundamental question of the Act's legal identity.","confidence":0.95,"description":"The Act is titled both 'Land Use Planning and Approval Amendment (Sensitive Disclosures) Act 2025' and 'Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment (Sensitive Disclosures) Act 2025' — with and without the 's' in 'Approvals' — across different headings within the same instrument. A statute cannot have two simultaneously correct short titles."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information — entire section","severity":"low","reasoning":"While wholesale duplication may reflect a rendering or consolidation error rather than a deliberate drafting choice, within the four corners of this instrument as presented it creates genuine interpretive difficulties: if a court or administrator were to treat each instance as independently operative, conflicts could theoretically arise if the sections were ever amended non-uniformly. The duplication also renders the document structure incoherent as a matter of legislative form.","confidence":0.88,"description":"The 'Status Information' heading and its substantive content appear to be duplicated verbatim multiple times within the body of the instrument, including sub-headings such as 'Currency of version', 'Table of Amending Instruments', 'Responsible Minister and Department', and 'Authorisation'. Each duplicate block contains identical text. A legislative instrument that reproduces its own metadata sections multiple times creates structural absurdity and ambiguity about which instance is operative."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Substantive provisions","severity":"high","reasoning":"An amending Act derives its entire legal purpose and effect from its operative provisions. Without any inserted, substituted, or repealed provisions, the Act cannot discharge its stated legislative purpose. Any person or authority attempting to apply the Act's amendments would find nothing to apply. If the absence of operative clauses is the complete text of the Act, the instrument is legally vacuous despite having gone through the full parliamentary process.","confidence":0.91,"description":"The Act purports to be an amendment Act — its title references amendment of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act — yet no substantive amending provisions, schedules, or operative clauses appear anywhere in the instrument as presented. An amendment Act with no amendments is a logical impossibility: it amends nothing while claiming to amend something."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"high","section_a":"Title heading (first instance): 'Land Use Planning and Approval ... Act 2025'","section_b":"Title heading (second instance): 'Land Use Planning and Approvals ... Act 2025'","confidence":0.95,"description":"The Act's own title is stated inconsistently — omitting the 's' from 'Approvals' in some headings and including it in others. These two formulations cannot both be the correct short title of the same Act."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Status Information — 'File last modified 16 June 2025'","section_b":"Status Information — 'accessed 1 April 2026 at 23:05'","confidence":0.8,"description":"The instrument records its file as last modified on 16 June 2025 but simultaneously records an access date of 1 April 2026. If the file was last modified in June 2025, it could not have been modified to include an April 2026 access date, yet that date appears in the same static document. The two temporal references are mutually irreconcilable within a single static legislative instrument."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Act title — 'Amendment ... Act 2025' (implying operative amending provisions exist)","section_b":"Body of the Act — contains no operative amending provisions whatsoever","confidence":0.9,"description":"The Act's title, purpose, and form declare it to be an amending instrument, yet its body contains no amending provisions. This is an internal contradiction between the Act's declared character and its actual content."}]},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Impossible to determine whether the scope changed from the original Bill's intent. The document contains no explanatory memorandum, second reading speech references, or substantive provisions that would allow comparison between the Act's original intent and its enacted form. No scope change can be confirmed or denied on the available information."},"complexity_factors":["The document provided is almost entirely administrative metadata with no substantive operative legal provisions included, making meaningful complexity assessment impossible","The title suggests the Act amends existing legislation (the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act), which inherently adds complexity as readers must cross-reference two instruments","The phrase 'sensitive disclosures' is undefined in the available text, suggesting potentially nuanced definitional and procedural provisions exist in the full Act that could increase complexity","Land use planning law in Tasmania involves multiple interacting bodies — councils, the Tasmanian Planning Commission, and state government — which typically adds complexity","Score is kept low (2) because without the operative provisions, no true complexity can be assessed from this document"],"plain_english_summary":"This amends Tasmania’s Land Use Planning and Approvals Act to introduce a framework for handling \"sensitive disclosures\" — certain planning-related information that may require special protection or management. It affects anyone in the planning system (developers, landowners, councils, planning authorities and participating members of the public) because it can shape what information is kept confidential, released, or handled differently during planning decisions.\n\nNote: the provided document is largely administrative metadata and does not include the Act’s substantive operative clauses; consult the full text for details."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025","history":"/api/acts/land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/land-use-planning-and-approvals-amendment-sensitive-disclosures-act-2025/documents"}}