{"id":"C2004A03024","name":"Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Validation Act 1984","slug":"live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"160 of 1984","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":34635,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A03024-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Validation Act 1984","content":"![](image.001.jpeg)\n\nLive-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Validation Act 1984\n\nNo. 160 of 1984\n\nAn Act to validate the payment and collection of amounts under the Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Act 1979 and the Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Collection Act 1979, and for related purposes\n\n\\[Assented to 25 October 1984\\]\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Validation Act 1984.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nValidation\n\n3. (1) In this section—\n\n“charge” has the same meaning as in the Charge Act;\n\n“Charge Act” means the Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Act 1979;\n\n“Collection Act” means the Live-stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Collection Act 1979.\n\n  \n\n(2) Where, at any time before the commencement of this Act, regulations were made under the Charge Act for the purposes of the definition of “abattoir” in section 4 of that Act, that Act has effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect, for all purposes, as if those regulations had come into operation on 1 January 1983.\n\n(3) Section 8 of the Collection Act does not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, in respect of any charge that would not have been imposed but for the operation of this Act.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1572},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains strictly limited to its stated purpose of validating past regulations defining 'abattoir' and protecting associated charges collected under the 1979 Acts, with no expansion beyond this technical remedial function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","Minimal definitions section with just 3 defined terms (section 3(1))","Single retroactive validation mechanism (section 3(2))","No nested conditional logic or exceptions","Limited cross-references to only two specific predecessor Acts"],"plain_english_summary":"This short law cures a technical defect in how regulations counted “abattoirs” under the 1979 Live‑stock Slaughter (Export Inspection Charge) Act, declaring those regulations valid from 1 January 1983. It also bars challenges under the 1979 Collection Act that would reclaim inspection charges tied to that validation.\n\nIt matters because it preserves millions in export inspection fees collected and gives legal certainty to the Commonwealth and livestock exporters."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984","history":"/api/acts/live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984/history","analysis":"/api/acts/live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/live-stock-slaughter-export-inspection-charge-validation-act-1984/documents"}}