{"id":"tas:sr-2003-190","name":"Proclamation under the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003","slug":"proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"190 of 2003","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":318234,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2003-190-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003","content":"> Proclamation under the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003\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-2003-076#GS2@EN) [Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2003-076) fix 1 January 2004 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n23 December 2003\n\nRICHARD BUTLER\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 31 December 2003\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":"This is a procedural commencement instrument only. Its sole purpose is to activate the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003, and there is no evidence of scope change from that original intent. It performs exactly the narrow administrative function it was designed for."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short and formulaic document with minimal substantive content","The actual legal complexity sits in the underlying Police Service reforms, not this Proclamation","Standard proclamation format requires basic understanding of how commencement of legislation works in Australia","No operative provisions beyond setting a commencement date"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation formally brings the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003 into force by fixing its commencement date as 31 December 2003. \n\nIt mainly matters to government agencies and legal practitioners who must know when the amended laws take effect; for the public, its practical impact flows from the underlying police service reforms rather than the proclamation itself."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A proclamation instrument that has not been modified since 2017 but claims currency to 2026 creates an administrative tension. While not a substantive legal absurdity, the metadata is internally inconsistent — either amendments occurred post-2017 (not reflected in the modification date) or the currency claim is misleading. This is a low-severity metadata reliability issue rather than a drafting flaw in operative provisions.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 31 December 2003 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 2:55)' while also stating 'File last modified 5 July 2017'. If the file was last modified in 2017, it cannot meaningfully claim currency to 2026 without any intervening updates, raising questions about whether the 'current' status reflects genuine legislative accuracy or merely the absence of recorded amendments."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Document structure - entire instrument","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation that contains no operative text cannot fulfil its legal function. Compliance with, or reliance upon, a proclamation is impossible if there is no operative declaration. Whether this reflects an incomplete reproduction or a genuine drafting failure, the instrument as presented is a legal nullity — it has a title and metadata but no legal effect.","confidence":0.72,"description":"The proclamation instrument as reproduced contains no operative provisions whatsoever. A proclamation exists solely to bring legislation or provisions into force on a specified date — without any operative content (e.g., 'I hereby proclaim that [Act/sections] shall commence on [date]'), the instrument is logically vacuous and legally purposeless."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Table of Amending Instruments","severity":"low","reasoning":"Amending a proclamation that has already fixed a commencement date is logically questionable. Once an Act or provision has commenced, retrospectively amending the proclamation that brought it into force could create uncertainty about whether the commencement ever validly occurred. The reference to amending instruments here is either a generic administrative artefact or signals a genuinely unusual legal situation.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The document refers readers to a 'Table of Amendments' for amending instruments, yet a proclamation is a single-use instrument that fixes a commencement date. Proclamations are not typically amended — they either take effect or they do not. The existence of a table of amending instruments suggests either the infrastructure is inappropriately applied to this instrument type, or amendments were actually made to a commencement proclamation, which is itself conceptually anomalous."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('Version current from 31 December 2003 to date')","section_b":"Authorisation ('File last modified 5 July 2017')","confidence":0.6,"description":"The instrument claims to be current 'to date' (i.e., to 8 April 2026), implying it reflects all changes up to that point. However, the file was last modified on 5 July 2017, approximately 8.75 years before the access date. These two claims are in direct tension: if the instrument is truly current to 2026, the file should reflect a modification date consistent with that currency; if the last modification was 2017, the claim of currency to 2026 is unsupported."}]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a straightforward commencement instrument performing exactly the function intended: bringing the parent Act into force on a specified date. No scope creep."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: fixes one commencement date","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation (except citation of the parent Act's commencement section)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format — essentially a template with blanks filled in"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **commencement proclamation** — a formal government notice that brings a law into effect.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Sets **1 January 2004** as the date when the *Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003* (Tasmania) officially starts operating.\n\n**Who made it:**\n- The **Governor of Tasmania** (Richard Butler), acting on advice from the **Executive Council** (the Premier and senior ministers).\n- Signed off by the **Minister for Police and Public Safety** (D. E. Llewellyn).\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Laws passed by Parliament don't always take effect immediately. This proclamation is the legal trigger that \"switches on\" the Act.\n- Without this document, the *Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003* would remain dormant — passed but not enforceable.\n\n**Key detail:**\n- The proclamation was made on **23 December 2003** and published in the *Tasmanian Government Gazette* on **31 December 2003**, giving just one day's public notice before commencement."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not change the substantive scope or content of the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003; it simply sets the Act's commencement day under section 2, and records formal steps (Governor's proclamation, Gazette notice, administration by the Department of Police and Public Safety)."},"complexity_factors":["Single, discrete legal effect: fixes a commencement date only","Reference to enabling provision (section 2 of the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003)","Routine formalities: Governor-in-Council proclamation, Gazette notification","No substantive or procedural provisions introduced in the proclamation itself","Administrative allocation: specifies Department of Police and Public Safety as administrator"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation makes the Police Service (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003 legally effective by fixing 1 January 2004 as its commencement date. It affects the police service, the Department of Police and Public Safety and any persons or bodies governed by that Act because its amendments take legal effect from that day."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-police-service-consequential-amendments-act-2003/documents"}}