{"id":"tas:sr-2011-134","name":"Proclamation under the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011","slug":"proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"134 of 2011","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":314505,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2011-134-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011","content":"> Proclamation under the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011\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-2011-043#GS2@EN) [Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2011-043) fix 28 December 2011 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n19 December 2011\n\nPETER G UNDERWOOD\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nBRIAN WIGHTMAN\n\nMinister for Environment, Parks and Heritage\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 28 December 2011\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not change the substantive scope or content of the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011; it only specifies the date the Act takes effect (28 December 2011), notes Gazettal, and names the administering department. No provisions of the underlying Act are amended or expanded by this instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative action: fixes a commencement date for one Act (28 December 2011).","No substantive amendments or policy rules are made in the proclamation.","Formalities only: Governor’s signature, Executive Council advice, Ministerial attestation, and Gazette notification.","Cross-reference to section 2 of the underlying Act for commencement authority.","Administrative detail included (identifies administering department) but no new regulatory obligations or discretion."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation, signed by the Governor with Executive Council advice, fixes 28 December 2011 as the day the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011 comes into force. It therefore brings that Act’s rules about Crown land fees into effect from that date, records Gazettal, and identifies the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment as the administering agency."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a commencement proclamation, which by definition serves a single, narrow purpose: bringing an Act into force. 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 enabling Act)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format following long-established conventions","Total length: approximately 150 words of substantive content"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this is:** A formal announcement (called a \"proclamation\") made by the Governor of Tasmania that sets the start date for the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Fixes the commencement date:** The Act officially comes into force on **28 December 2011**\n- **Validates past fees:** The underlying Act validates fees that were charged for using Crown land (government-owned land) in Tasmania between 2005 and 2011, even though there may have been technical legal doubts about whether those fees were properly authorised at the time\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone who paid fees to use Tasmanian Crown land during 2005–2011\n- Government agencies that collected those fees\n- Essentially provides legal certainty that those past payments were valid\n\n**Why it matters:** Without this proclamation, the Act wouldn't have legal effect. The proclamation is the \"on switch\" that makes the validation of those fees legally binding, protecting the government from potential lawsuits and giving certainty to people who paid."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This proclamation does not alter the scope of the parent Act. It performs a single, narrow administrative function: bringing the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011 into force on 28 December 2011. No expansion or contraction of the original legislative intent is evident."},"complexity_factors":["The document itself is procedurally simple — it is merely a commencement proclamation with minimal substantive content","Complexity lies in understanding the parent Act it activates, not in the proclamation itself","Retrospective legal validation concepts may be unfamiliar to laypeople but are not elaborated upon here","Very limited text available to analyse — the document appears largely structural/metadata with little operative content"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation, made under the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011, brings that Act into force on 28 December 2011. It retrospectively validates fees previously charged in relation to Crown land in Tasmania.\n\nIt affects people who paid those fees and the Tasmanian government by removing the legal risk of refunds or challenges to past fee collections."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A file modification date of 13 August 2018 is inconsistent with a claim of no substantive change since 28 December 2011. Either the modification was purely administrative (unexplained) or the currency date is inaccurate. The instrument provides no explanation for the discrepancy, leaving the reader unable to determine whether the version they are reading is genuinely current.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The legislation states it is 'current from 28 December 2011 to date' yet the file was last modified on 13 August 2018, implying either undisclosed amendments occurred or the currency claim is misleading."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Document structure (entire instrument)","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation with no operative provisions cannot fulfil its legal function. Persons or bodies subject to the Crown Lands (Validation of Fees) Act 2011 cannot determine what is being proclaimed, when it takes effect, or what conduct is required or authorised. This renders the instrument legally vacuous as presented, though this may be an artefact of incomplete document capture rather than the instrument itself.","confidence":0.75,"description":"The proclamation instrument as presented contains no operative provisions whatsoever. A proclamation is a legally operative instrument intended to bring something into force or declare a legal state of affairs, yet the text contains only metadata, status information, and navigation elements with no substantive operative clause."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version (28 December 2011 to date)","section_b":"Authorisation - File last modified 13 August 2018","confidence":0.65,"description":"The instrument simultaneously asserts it has been current and unchanged since 28 December 2011 and that the underlying file was modified on 13 August 2018, nearly seven years later. These two statements cannot both be fully true without explanation of the nature of the 2018 modification."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-crown-lands-validation-of-fees-act-2011/documents"}}