{"id":"tas:sr-2025-023","name":"Poisons Amendment (Authorised Health Professionals) Regulations 2025","slug":"poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"23 of 2025","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":174279,"registerId":"tas-sr-2025-023-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 [Poisons Amendment (Authorised Health Professionals) Regulations 2025](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2025-023) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> These regulations take effect on 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 [Poisons Regulations 2018](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2018-079) 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 [Poisons Regulations 2018](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2018-079) .\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 4 June 2025\n\nThese regulations are administered in the Department of Health.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument itself is procedural and does not on its face expand or narrow the regulated subject-matter. It records an amendment to the Poisons Regulations 2018 but does not set out substantive changes in this text; therefore no change of scope is evident from the instrument alone. (See regs 2–4 for commencement, principal regulation reference and incorporation note.)"},"complexity_factors":["Procedural content only: contains short title (reg 1), commencement (reg 2) and principal-regulation reference (reg 3) which are straightforward","No substantive regulatory provisions included in the published text, reducing analysis required","Note that amendments have been incorporated into the authorised version (reg 4) which simplifies application but requires users to consult the consolidated Poisons Regulations 2018 to see actual changes","Potential opacity risk: absence of the substantive amendment text in this instrument means stakeholders must locate the consolidated instrument to assess impacts"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument is a short amending regulation to the Poisons Regulations 2018. It gives the amendment a title (reg 1), says it starts when its making is published in the Gazette (reg 2), and records that the changes have been folded into the authorised version of the Poisons Regulations 2018 (reg 4). The Department of Health administers the regulations. The text here is procedural: it does not specify new fees or the substantive duties affected by the underlying amendments."},"summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available text, the regulation appears to remain focused on its stated purpose — amending authorisation rules for health professionals under poisons law. There is no evidence of scope creep beyond the original intent. However, the limited text available (metadata only, no operative provisions) means this assessment is tentative."},"complexity_factors":["Amends existing regulations rather than standing alone, requiring cross-reference to the parent Poisons Regulations to understand full effect","Scheduled poisons framework involves multiple schedules (e.g., Schedule 4, Schedule 8) under national and state law, adding layers of regulatory context","The specific authorisations granted depend on defined professional categories, which may themselves reference other registration or licensing frameworks","Limited text available for analysis — full complexity of the operative provisions cannot be assessed from the metadata alone","Intersects with national medicines scheduling under the Therapeutic Goods Act and the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP)"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation updates Tasmania’s Poisons Regulations to expand or revise which health professionals are authorised to handle, prescribe, or administer scheduled poisons. It affects nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and other allied health workers (and their employers), and patients who may gain access to certain medicines from a broader range of clinicians. The change aims to improve access to controlled medicines, particularly where doctors are scarce."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument maintains its original narrow purpose as an amendment regulation. It does not expand beyond its intended function of updating the Principal Regulations regarding authorised health professionals."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short (4 sections, approximately 100 words)","No substantive provisions - merely incorporates amendments by reference","No defined terms beyond standard machinery provisions","No conditional logic or operational rules in the instrument itself","Functions purely as a notification mechanism that amendments have been made elsewhere"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical piece of legislation that updates the Poisons Regulations 2018. Specifically, it makes changes to allow certain 'authorised health professionals' to handle poisons in ways that weren't previously permitted. Rather than listing the actual changes here, the document simply notes that the amendments have already been merged into the main Poisons Regulations 2018. Think of it as a 'patch note' that tells you an update has been applied to the main rulebook, but you need to look at the updated rulebook itself to see exactly what changed."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information / Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"While not strictly a logical flaw in the legislative text itself, a document 'accessed' on 5 April 2026 being analysed as current legislation creates a temporal absurdity — the version is described as 'current from 4 June 2025 to date' where 'to date' is a future date relative to the instrument's own modification timestamp. This is a metadata integrity issue rather than a substantive legal flaw.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document states it was 'accessed 5 April 2026 at 11:37' but the 'file last modified' date is 4 June 2025. The access date of 5 April 2026 precedes the stated currency period commencement of 4 June 2025 by approximately 10 months in reverse — however, the access date is actually nearly 10 months AFTER the modification date, which is internally consistent. The deeper absurdity is that the document purports to show a future access date (5 April 2026) relative to any plausible drafting date, raising questions about whether this is a fabricated or projected timestamp."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Entire instrument","severity":"high","reasoning":"An amending regulation must, at minimum, specify what it amends and how. A statutory instrument comprising only metadata, header duplication, and status information with zero operative clauses is legally incoherent. It cannot authorise any health professional to do anything, nor can it amend any provision of the principal Poisons Act or Regulations. Compliance with, or reliance upon, such an instrument is impossible because there is nothing to comply with or rely upon.","confidence":0.9,"description":"The instrument is titled 'Poisons Amendment (Authorised Health Professionals) Regulations 2025' and purports to be substantive amending legislation, but the body of the instrument as provided contains no operative provisions whatsoever — no regulation numbers, no amended text, no schedules, no definitions, and no commencement clause. An amending instrument with no operative content cannot logically fulfil its stated purpose."},{"type":"other","section":"Header / Title block","severity":"low","reasoning":"Duplicated headings in a formal legislative instrument undermine textual certainty. Under principles of statutory interpretation, courts seek the ordinary and natural meaning of legislative text. Duplicate headings could theoretically be read as requiring provisions to be applied twice, or could create uncertainty as to which rendering is authoritative. The Tasmanian Acts Interpretation Act 1931 requires instruments to be read as a whole, but a whole comprising only repeated metadata provides no interpretive foundation.","confidence":0.75,"description":"Every heading in the document is duplicated verbatim (e.g., 'Poisons Amendment (Authorised Health Professionals) Regulations 2025' appears four times; 'Status Information Status Information' appears twice; 'Currency of version Currency of version' appears twice, etc.). While likely a rendering artefact, if this represents the authoritative text of the instrument, it creates structural ambiguity about which instance constitutes the operative heading."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information — 'Version current from 4 June 2025 to date (accessed 5 April 2026 at 11:37)'","section_b":"Authorisation — 'File last modified 4 June 2025'","confidence":0.6,"description":"The instrument claims to be current 'to date' with the access date rendered as 5 April 2026, yet simultaneously asserts the file was last modified on 4 June 2025. If the instrument has not been modified since 4 June 2025 but is accessed on 5 April 2026, the 'to date' currency claim implicitly asserts no amendments have occurred across an approximate 10-month window — a claim that cannot be verified from the instrument itself and sits in tension with the linked 'Table of Amending Instruments', which implies amendments may exist."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Title — 'Poisons Amendment (Authorised Health Professionals) Regulations 2025'","section_b":"Body of instrument — contains no operative provisions","confidence":0.88,"description":"The title of the instrument expressly promises amendment of poisons legislation and authorisation of health professionals. The body of the instrument, as presented, contains no such amendments or authorisations. The title and the operative content are in direct contradiction: the title asserts legal effect that the body is wholly incapable of producing."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025","history":"/api/acts/poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/poisons-amendment-authorised-health-professionals-regulations-2025/documents"}}