{"id":"tas:sr-2006-012","name":"Proclamation under the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005","slug":"proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"12 of 2006","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":316079,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2006-012-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005","content":"> Proclamation under the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005\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-2005-061#GS2@EN) [Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2005-061) fix 1 March 2006 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n16 February 2006\n\nW. J. E. COX\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nD. E. LLEWELLYN\n\nMinister for Police and Public Safety\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 1 March 2006\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Police and Public Safety.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A commencement proclamation has a single, fixed purpose: to bring an Act into force on a specified date. There is no indication of any scope change from that original intent. The instrument has remained unchanged since 1 March 2006."},"complexity_factors":["The document itself is purely procedural — a commencement proclamation with no substantive legal content of its own","The substantive complexity lies in the parent Act, not this instrument","Minimal text is available to analyse — the document is largely metadata and status information","No amending instruments appear to have changed its content since 2006"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation is the formal legal notice that brought Tasmania’s Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005 into force on 1 March 2006. It enabled the state’s sex-offender registration and reporting regime, imposing ongoing reporting duties on qualifying offenders and authorising Tasmania Police to maintain and monitor the register—measures intended to protect the community, especially children."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard commencement instrument performing exactly the function intended — bringing the parent Act into operation on a specified date. No scope creep."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision fixing a commencement date","No defined terms","No cross-references to substantive law (only citation of the empowering section)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format following established template"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **commencement proclamation** — a formal government notice that brings a law into force.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Sets **1 March 2006** as the date when the *Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005* (Tasmania) officially starts operating.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone covered by the main Act — primarily convicted sex offenders and other serious offenders who must report their personal details to police.\n- Police and government agencies responsible for monitoring these offenders.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Laws don't automatically take effect when passed by Parliament. This proclamation is the legal 'switch' that turns the Act on, giving police the power to require offenders to register and report their whereabouts, employment, and other details.\n- Without this proclamation, the Act would remain dormant on the statute books."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not amend or expand the Act’s substantive scope; it only fixes the commencement date under the Act’s section 2 power and so activates the Act as enacted without changing its content."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose instrument: fixes a commencement date only (low substantive content).","Relies on an enabling power in the parent Act (section 2) to take legal effect.","Formalities present: Governor acting with Executive Council advice, ministerial sign-off, Gazette notification, and Rules Publication Act 1953 display.","Triggers downstream legal obligations and administrative duties under the Act, creating compliance and enforcement costs despite textual simplicity.","Very low interpretive ambiguity (a specific date), so minimal need for legal construction or discretionary application."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation, made by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council under section 2, sets 1 March 2006 as the day the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005 takes effect. It brings into force the Act’s reporting and enforcement rules, creating compliance obligations for affected offenders and administrative duties and costs for the Department of Police and Public Safety; the Governor (on Executive Council advice) decides the date, and the proclamation is notified in the Gazette."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"A proclamation that is genuinely current to April 2026 but whose underlying file was last modified in August 2018 creates a logical tension. The 'Table of Amending Instruments' link implies amendments exist, yet the file modification date suggests no changes have been recorded in the document itself for nearly 8 years while purporting to be live and current legislation.","confidence":0.62,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 1 March 2006 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:59)' while simultaneously stating 'File last modified 31 August 2018'. If the file was last modified in 2018, the claim of currency 'to date' as of 2026 is logically suspect — either amendments have been made post-2018 without updating the file modification date, or the currency statement is misleading."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"The site's own update standard (3 working days) is potentially breached by the gap between the last file modification (2018) and the accessed date (2026), unless the proclamation genuinely has never been amended — which is possible for a short proclamation but worth flagging as a tension.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The legislation states it is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change to the legislation', yet the file modification date of 31 August 2018 combined with a currency claim extending to 8 April 2026 implies either no changes occurred over approximately 7.5 years (implausible for active legislation), or changes occurred but the file was not updated within 3 working days as required by the site's own operational standard."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version: 'Version current from 1 March 2006 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:59)'","section_b":"Authorisation: 'File last modified 31 August 2018'","confidence":0.55,"description":"The version is claimed to be current as of April 2026, but the file underpinning it was last modified in August 2018. These two statements are in tension: if the document is truly current to 2026, one would expect a more recent file modification date, particularly given the existence of a Table of Amending Instruments suggesting the instrument has a documented amendment history."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-community-protection-offender-reporting-act-2005/documents"}}