{"id":"tas:sr-2000-035","name":"Proclamation under the Cooperatives Act 1999","slug":"proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"35 of 2000","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":318884,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2000-035-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Cooperatives Act 1999","content":"> Proclamation under the Cooperatives Act 1999\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-1999-085#GS2@EN) [Cooperatives Act 1999](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1999-085) fix 24 May 2000 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n15 May 2000\n\nG. S. M. GREEN\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nP. PATMORE\n\nMinister for Justice and Industrial Relations\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 24 May 2000\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A proclamation is a narrow, purpose-built instrument. Its scope is strictly limited to activating or giving effect to the parent Act (the Cooperatives Act 1999). There is no indication from the available content that the scope shifted from its original intent of commencing the legislation."},"complexity_factors":["The document itself is largely metadata and status information rather than substantive legal content","Proclamations are inherently simple instruments — they typically do one thing (commence a law or a date)","The underlying Cooperatives Act 1999 may be complex, but this proclamation is not","Limited actual legislative text is present in the provided excerpt, reducing ability to assess deeper complexity"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation formally brought the Cooperatives Act 1999 (Tas.) into force — effectively the legal “on switch” for the law — with operation noted from 24 May 2000. It matters to anyone forming, running, joining or regulating cooperatives in Tasmania because it made the Act’s rules and obligations legally effective."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not change the substantive scope of the Cooperatives Act 1999; it merely fixes the Act’s commencement date and records administrative responsibility. To evaluate any change to legal scope, one must read the Act itself."},"complexity_factors":["Procedural instrument that only fixes a commencement date","Single operative clause (commencement date) keeps legal effect narrow","Cross-reference to section 2 of the Cooperatives Act 1999 requires consulting the Act for substantive effects","Administrative note identifying the responsible department (implementation detail)","Low stakeholder decision-making or compliance burden in the proclamation itself"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation, made under section 2 of the Cooperatives Act 1999, sets 24 May 2000 as the day that the Act begins to operate. The Governor, acting with the Executive Council, makes the commencement declaration and the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations is named as the administering body. The proclamation itself does not create new substantive obligations; it only fixes the Act’s start date and assigns administrative responsibility."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a commencement instrument with a single, narrow purpose. It has not expanded beyond its original intent of bringing the Cooperatives Act 1999 into force on a specified date."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (fixing a commencement date)","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation beyond citation of the parent Act","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard formal language typical of proclamations","Total length: approximately 150 words of substantive content"],"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 **24 May 2000** as the date when the *Cooperatives Act 1999* (Tasmania) officially starts operating.\n- Without this proclamation, the Act would remain on the statute books but wouldn't actually apply to anyone.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- **Cooperatives** in Tasmania — these are member-owned businesses (like credit unions, agricultural co-ops, or community housing co-ops) that operate for the benefit of their members rather than outside shareholders.\n- Anyone who deals with these cooperatives, as they now have a new legal framework governing how they're formed, run, and wound up.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Laws passed by Parliament don't automatically take effect. Many require a proclamation like this to \"switch them on.\"\n- This document marks the moment when Tasmania's cooperative sector moved from old legislation to the new 1999 Act — affecting everything from registration requirements to directors' duties."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A document cannot simultaneously be unmodified since 24 May 2000 and also have been last modified on 13 August 2018, unless 'currency' and 'modification' are being used in technically distinct senses that are nowhere defined or explained in the instrument itself. The distinction is not made clear to the reader.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 24 May 2000 to date' yet the file was last modified on 13 August 2018, creating an implicit claim that a proclamation issued in 2000 has remained entirely unchanged and yet also required modification in 2018."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Entire Document","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation under the Cooperatives Act 1999 must, by definition, contain operative text — for example, 'I hereby proclaim that [Act/Part/section] shall commence on [date]'. The reproduced instrument contains only metadata, status information, and navigation headers. Any legal obligation or right purportedly created or triggered by this proclamation cannot be identified, making compliance by any regulated party logically impossible.","confidence":0.82,"description":"The proclamation document as reproduced contains no operative provisions whatsoever. A proclamation is a legal instrument that exercises a statutory power — typically to appoint a commencement date or declare a fact. This document exercises no identifiable power and declares nothing, rendering it legally nugatory on its face."},{"type":"other","section":"Table of Amending Instruments","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Proclamations are not generally ambulatory instruments subject to ongoing amendment in the way that principal Acts or statutory rules are. If the Table of Amendments records actual substantive amendments, this suggests either the instrument is being misclassified as a proclamation, or the amendments themselves are of questionable legal effect. Neither possibility is explained.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The document references a 'Table of Amendments' implying the proclamation has been amended, yet a proclamation is a one-time executive act that typically cannot be amended — it either takes effect or it does not. Amending a proclamation that merely triggers commencement would be legally incoherent."},{"type":"other","section":"Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"Legislation must have determinate temporal application. A currency statement that extends to an unspecified future access moment is not a legal defect in the instrument itself but does mean the document as reproduced has no fixed endpoint, which is logically problematic for a proclamation that should have a precise and singular legal effect at a defined point in time.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The version is described as 'current from 24 May 2000 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 3:18)'. This embeds a future date (2026) into what is presented as a static legal document, meaning the document's own temporal scope is contingent on when an unknown future reader accesses it — an indeterminate legal boundary."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version — 'Version current from 24 May 2000 to date'","section_b":"Authorisation — 'File last modified 13 August 2018'","confidence":0.6,"description":"The version currency statement implies the instrument has been in continuous unaltered force since 24 May 2000, while the authorisation block records a file modification on 13 August 2018, nearly 18 years later. These two statements are mutually inconsistent unless a distinction between legislative currency and administrative file modification is clearly drawn — which it is not."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Table of Amending Instruments — implies amendments exist","section_b":"Nature of instrument as a Proclamation — a singular executive act","confidence":0.7,"description":"The existence of a clickable Table of Amendments implies the proclamation has been substantively amended over time. This contradicts the legal nature of a proclamation as a singular, self-exhausting executive act. Once a proclamation brings an Act or provision into force, there is nothing remaining to amend — the legal work is done."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-cooperatives-act-1999/documents"}}