{"id":"tas:sr-2013-086","name":"Proclamation under the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed-in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013","slug":"proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"86 of 2013","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":187658,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2013-086-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed-in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013","content":"> Proclamation under the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed-in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013\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-2013-048#GS2@EN) [Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed-in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2013-048) fix 1 January 2014 as the day on which the provisions of that Act commence.\n\n18 November 2013\n\nPETER G. UNDERWOOD\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nBRYAN GREEN\n\nMinister for 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 27 November 2013\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard commencement proclamation, which serves exactly its original purpose: to bring an Act into force on a specified date. There is no expansion of scope."},"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 proclamation format following long-established conventions"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short official notice (called a 'proclamation') that sets the start date for a Tasmanian law about electricity feed-in tariffs. \n\n**What it does:**\n- The Governor of Tasmania officially declares that the *Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed-in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013* will come into force on **1 January 2014**.\n\n**Why this matters:**\n- Many laws don't start automatically when passed by Parliament. They need a separate official announcement (this proclamation) to say when they actually begin.\n- This particular law deals with **feed-in tariffs** — the payments that people with solar panels receive for selling excess electricity back to the power grid.\n- Without this proclamation, the law would sit unused. Now Tasmanians know exactly when the new solar payment rules kick in.\n\n**Who made this:**\n- The Governor of Tasmania (the formal head of state at state level) acting on advice from the Executive Council (the Premier and senior ministers).\n- Signed off by the Minister for Energy and Resources."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not alter the substantive scope of the Amendment Act; it only brings the Act's existing provisions into force on 1 January 2014 under the authority of section 2. No expansion, contraction or modification of the Act's content is effected by this instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose instrument: fixes a commencement date only","No substantive or operational provisions included in the proclamation","Relies entirely on the external Amendment Act for legal effects","Clear statutory authority cited (section 2), limiting discretion","Administrative details (Gazette notification and administering department) but no implementation roadmap"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation sets 1 January 2014 as the day the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed‑in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013 begins to operate. Made by the Governor on the advice of the Executive Council under section 2 of that Act and notified in the Gazette on 27 November 2013, it gives legal force to whatever rights, obligations or regulatory changes the Amendment Act creates; those subject to the Amendment Act must comply from that date. The Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources will administer the commencement."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A commencement proclamation by definition does not alter the scope of the legislation it activates. It simply sets the date the parent Act takes effect. There is no evidence of scope change from the original intent."},"complexity_factors":["The document is purely procedural — it contains almost no substantive legal content of its own","Its sole function is to set a commencement date for another Act, requiring understanding of the relationship between a proclamation and its parent legislation","The actual complexity resides in the parent Act (Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed-in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013), not this instrument","The document as reproduced contains significant formatting duplication, making it harder to parse than it should be"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation, signed by the Governor of Tasmania, sets the commencement date (27 November 2013) for the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment (Feed‑in Tariffs and Other Matters) Act 2013. It activates feed‑in tariff rules affecting Tasmanian households and small businesses with generation (e.g., rooftop solar), energy retailers, and regulators by giving the parent Act legal effect."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A proclamation is typically a one-time instrument that brings an Act or provisions into force on a specified date. If it has been modified (as evidenced by the 2018 file modification date) but its operative currency is stated as unchanged since 2013, there is an internal tension between the metadata claims. Either the modification was purely administrative (no legal effect) or the version history is incomplete.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The proclamation states it is 'current from 27 November 2013 to date' yet the file was last modified on 3 September 2018, suggesting the instrument was amended after its stated commencement but the version metadata does not reflect any substantive amendment history beyond that date."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Update Policy","severity":"low","reasoning":"Proclamations under Tasmanian law are not typically amended; they commence Acts or provisions on a date. Promising ongoing currency updates for an instrument that has no amendable content is logically vacuous, even if the statement is boilerplate.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The instrument states legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change' yet this is a proclamation — a single-use commencement instrument — that by its nature cannot meaningfully change after it takes effect. Applying a rolling update policy to an instrument incapable of substantive amendment is a functional absurdity."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version (27 November 2013 to date)","section_b":"Authorisation - File last modified 3 September 2018","confidence":0.55,"description":"The instrument claims to have been current and unchanged since 27 November 2013, but the file modification date of 3 September 2018 indicates some alteration occurred nearly five years after the stated commencement. These two statements are facially inconsistent: if nothing changed, the file should not have been modified; if the file was modified, the currency statement should reflect a new version date."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-electricity-supply-industry-amendment-feed-in-tariffs-and-other-matters-act-2/documents"}}