{"id":"tas:sr-2021-078","name":"Proclamation under the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021","slug":"proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"78 of 2021","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":182368,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2021-078-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021","content":"> Proclamation under the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021\n\nI, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, by this my proclamation made under [section 2 of the](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2021-003#GS2@EN) [Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2021-003) fix 29 September 2021 as the day on which the provisions of that Act commence.\n\n20 September 2021\n\nB. BAKER\n\nGovernor\n\nBy Her Excellency's Command,\n\nJ. PETRUSMA\n\nMinister for Parks\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 29 September 2021\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a commencement proclamation, which by definition has a narrow, single-purpose scope: to activate an Act. It has not expanded beyond this original intent."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision fixing a commencement date","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation (except citation of the parent Act and Rules Publication Act in administrative notes)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format following constitutional conventions","Total length: approximately 150 words of substantive content"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a formal notice (called a 'proclamation') that sets the start date for a Tasmanian law about a landslide at Brickmakers Point. The Governor of Tasmania, acting on government advice, has declared that the **Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021** will take effect on **29 September 2021**.\n\n**What this means:**\n- The law itself was already passed, but it needed this official 'kick-off' date to become active\n- This proclamation simply flips the switch to make the Act operational\n- It affects anyone dealing with land, property, or infrastructure at Brickmakers Point (near Launceston, Tasmania), where a significant landslip occurred\n\n**Why it matters:**\nWithout this proclamation, the Act would sit unused. The legislation likely provides special powers or funding arrangements to manage the landslip disaster, stabilise the area, or compensate affected property owners. The proclamation ensures these powers are available when needed."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation only sets the commencement date for the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021. It does not alter the Act's substantive scope, rights, obligations or regulatory reach."},"complexity_factors":["Purely procedural commencement instrument with a single fixed date","No substantive amendments, rights, duties or regulatory changes introduced","Clear statutory authority: exercise of the Governor's commencement power","Administrative formalities only (Gazette notification and departmental administration)","Minimal discretion or interpretive complexity for implementing agencies","Temporal sequencing risk only (ensuring agencies and stakeholders are ready by the commencement date)"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation brings the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021 into force on 29 September 2021. Mechanically, the Governor uses the Act's commencement power to fix that date.\n\nIt affects people and bodies subject to the Act — including landowners, local government and the administering department — by starting the Act's legal obligations and administrative duties. Costs of implementation fall mainly on government agencies; compliance costs fall on covered private parties. The proclamation does not change the Act's substantive content."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on available information, the proclamation appears to operate within the scope of the parent Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021, with no amendments recorded since its commencement on 29 September 2021. There is no evidence of scope creep or departure from the original legislative intent."},"complexity_factors":["The document provided contains almost no operative legal content — it is predominantly metadata, status information, and formatting artefacts from a legislation website","The underlying subject matter (a site-specific landslip proclamation) is inherently narrow and localised in scope","Proclamations are generally short, single-purpose instruments with limited interpretive complexity","Without the full text of the proclamation, meaningful legal analysis is severely constrained"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation under the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021 formally declares the Act in force in response to the Brickmakers Point landslip. Effective 29 September 2021, it signals legal steps taken by the Tasmanian government to manage the event’s aftermath. It primarily affects local property owners, residents, businesses and government land‑management or disaster‑response agencies."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A Table of Amending Instruments is provided as a navigable link, implying the existence of amending instruments. However, the file last modified date of 29 September 2021 contradicts the possibility of any amendments having been incorporated. If no amendments exist, the table link is superfluous and potentially misleading. If amendments do exist, the modification date is incorrect.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The proclamation states it is 'current from 29 September 2021 to date' while the access date recorded is 5 April 2026, yet the file last modified date is also 29 September 2021. This implies the instrument has never been amended or updated in over four years, yet the Table of Amending Instruments link exists, suggesting amendments may exist that are not reflected in the modification date."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"The 3-working-day update commitment presupposes that changes will occur. Where a proclamation spans 4.5 years with no modification, the commitment is hollow but not strictly contradictory. It is logically absurd only insofar as the commitment is advertised for an instrument that empirically never triggers it.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The legislation states it is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change to the legislation', yet the file was last modified on 29 September 2021 and is represented as current to 5 April 2026 — a span of approximately 4.5 years with no recorded change. The update guarantee becomes meaningless and unfalsifiable when no changes are ever recorded."},{"type":"other","section":"Document structure - Title repetition","severity":"low","reasoning":"While likely a rendering or metadata artefact rather than a drafting error in the underlying instrument, as presented the document is formally incoherent. A proclamation that duplicates its own operative headings creates ambiguity as to which instance of a heading constitutes the authoritative provision, which is a genuine interpretive problem under the Acts Interpretation Act 1931 (Tas).","confidence":0.7,"description":"The document repeats the full title 'Proclamation under the Brickmakers Point Landslip Act 2021' at least four times in the heading structure, and all major section headings are duplicated verbatim (e.g., 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'). This structural duplication renders the document self-referentially incoherent as a formal legal instrument."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Table of Amending Instruments","section_b":"Authorisation - File last modified 29 September 2021","confidence":0.5,"description":"The presence of a Table of Amending Instruments (implying one or more amending instruments exist or may exist) is in tension with the file last modified date of 29 September 2021 — the same date as commencement — which implies no amendments have ever been incorporated into the file. If no amendments have been made, the table is either empty (making its prominent inclusion misleading) or amendments exist that have not been reflected in the modification timestamp."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-brickmakers-point-landslip-act-2021/documents"}}