{"id":"tas:sr-1998-161","name":"Proclamation under the Dangerous Goods Act 1998","slug":"proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"161 of 1998","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":319054,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-1998-161-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Dangerous Goods Act 1998","content":"> Proclamation under the Dangerous Goods Act 1998\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 the [Dangerous Goods Act 1998](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1998-006) fix 1 January 1999 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n14 December 1998\n\nG. S. M. GREEN\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nP. A. LENNON\n\nMinister for Infrastructure, Energy and Resources\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 23 December 1998\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"No scope change can be determined. The operative text of the Proclamation was not included in the material provided, so it is not possible to assess whether its application drifted from its original intent. On its face, it appears to serve its original purpose as a formal instrument under the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 and has remained in force unchanged since 1998."},"complexity_factors":["The document is a Proclamation — a simple, single-purpose legal instrument — rather than complex primary legislation.","The actual operative content of the Proclamation is absent from the provided text, meaning substantive legal complexity cannot be fully assessed.","The parent Act (Dangerous Goods Act 1998) can be technically complex, but this instrument itself appears to be a narrow activating or declaratory document.","Minimal interpretive ambiguity expected from a proclamation of this type."],"plain_english_summary":"This document is a Governor’s Proclamation made under Tasmania’s Dangerous Goods Act 1998 — the mechanism typically used to bring parts of that law into force. The excerpt lacks the operative wording, so its specific effect cannot be stated.\n\nThe Proclamation has been in force since 23 December 1998 (with possible amendments) and would affect anyone who manufactures, stores, handles or transports dangerous goods in Tasmania."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This proclamation serves exactly its intended purpose: to bring the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 into operation on a specific date. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond this straightforward administrative function."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (fixing a commencement date)","No defined terms","No cross-references to other sections within the instrument itself","No conditional logic or exceptions","Extremely short (under 200 words)"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short official notice (called a 'proclamation') that sets the start date for Tasmania's Dangerous Goods Act 1998. It was signed by the Governor of Tasmania on 14 December 1998, and it fixed 1 January 1999 as the day the Act would come into force (meaning the law would actually apply from that date). This is a routine administrative step — legislation often needs a specific 'commencement date' set separately from when it was passed by Parliament, so businesses and the public know exactly when the new rules take effect."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"If the version has been current and unchanged since 23 December 1998, the file should not have been modified on 13 August 2018. Either a substantive change occurred in 2018 (which would ordinarily generate a new version date) or the 2018 modification was purely administrative. The instrument provides no explanation for this discrepancy, leaving the true currency of the version genuinely ambiguous.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The legislation states it is 'Version current from 23 December 1998 to date' while simultaneously stating 'File last modified 13 August 2018', creating an internal inconsistency about when the instrument was last changed."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Entire instrument","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation is an executive instrument used to bring provisions into force, declare things, or prescribe matters under a parent Act. Without any operative clause, there is nothing for any person or body to comply with, give effect to, or enforce. The instrument is therefore either incomplete as published or serves no discernible legal function, which is a fundamental drafting absurdity.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The proclamation purports to be operative subordinate legislation under the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 but contains no operative provisions whatsoever — no declared goods, no appointed dates, no prescribed matters — rendering it legally vacuous."},{"type":"other","section":"Entire instrument - structural presentation","severity":"medium","reasoning":"If the published version on the official Tasmanian legislation website is the authoritative consolidated version, persistent duplication of every structural element over nearly 28 years without correction raises serious questions about the reliability of the legislative record. It is impossible to determine from the text alone which instance of each duplicated element, if either, represents the true legislative text.","confidence":0.9,"description":"Every heading and metadata element in the instrument is duplicated verbatim (e.g. 'Proclamation under the Dangero Proclamation under the Dangerous Goods Act 1998', 'Status Information Status Information', 'Authorisation Authorisation'), suggesting either a systematic publishing error that has persisted from 23 December 1998 to date without correction, or that the authoritative text of the law is itself malformed."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version: 'Version current from 23 December 1998 to date'","section_b":"Authorisation: 'File last modified 13 August 2018'","confidence":0.7,"description":"The instrument claims an unbroken single version since 23 December 1998, yet the file was modified nearly 20 years later on 13 August 2018. These two statements are irreconcilable without further explanation: either the version date is wrong, the modification was substantive and should have generated a new version, or the modification was administrative but is being misrepresented as a file-level change indistinguishable from a legal amendment."}]},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not alter the substantive scope of the Dangerous Goods Act 1998; it only declares the date on which the Act becomes operative and names the administering department. No policy or regulatory content of the Act is changed by this instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Instrument is purely a commencement proclamation with no substantive legislative amendments.","Single clear legal effect: fixes an operative commencement date.","Administrative decision made by Governor with Executive Council advice — no multipart procedures or delegations in the text.","Identifies administering department (Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources) but does not create new powers or duties.","Low immediate compliance complexity in the proclamation itself; complexity arises only from the Act it brings into force."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation sets 1 January 1999 as the day the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 begins to apply in Tasmania. From that date the Act’s legal requirements for handling, storing, transporting and regulating dangerous goods become enforceable against relevant businesses and individuals.\n\nMechanically, the Governor (with Executive Council advice) fixes the start date; the practical effect is to shift compliance obligations and potential penalties onto regulated operators and to vest regulatory responsibilities in the administering department named in the proclamation."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-dangerous-goods-act-1998/documents"}}