{"id":"tas:sr-2006-156","name":"Proclamation under the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006","slug":"proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"156 of 2006","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":316049,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2006-156-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006","content":"> Proclamation under the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006\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-2006-034#GS2@EN) [Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2006-034) fix 15 January 2007 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n20 December 2006\n\nW. J. E. COX\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nMICHELLE O'BYRNE\n\nMinister for Community Development\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 December 2006\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a commencement proclamation, which by definition has a narrow, technical purpose: to activate a previously passed Act. It has not expanded beyond this original intent."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: fixes one date (15 January 2007)","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation beyond citation of the parent Act","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format — boilerplate language","Total length: approximately 150 words of substantive content"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a formal government notice (called a 'proclamation') that sets the start date for a Tasmanian law called the **Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006**.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Fixes the commencement date** — The law was passed in 2006, but this proclamation officially activates it on **15 January 2007**.\n\n**Who made it:**\n- The **Governor of Tasmania** (W. J. E. Cox), acting on advice from the **Executive Council** (the Premier and senior ministers).\n- Signed off by **Michelle O'Byrne**, then Minister for Community Development.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Many laws don't start automatically when passed. This 'commencement proclamation' is the legal trigger that makes the Stolen Generations Act actually take effect.\n- The Act itself was designed to provide support and recognition for Aboriginal Tasmanians who were forcibly removed from their families as children — part of Australia's broader response to the Stolen Generations.\n\n**Key point:** Without this proclamation, the 2006 Act would have remained inactive 'on the shelf'. This document is essentially the 'on switch'."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A Proclamation is a narrow, purpose-specific instrument. It does not alter the scope of the parent Act — it simply activates it. There is no evidence of scope change from original intent."},"complexity_factors":["The document itself is extremely brief — it is a Proclamation, which is a simple administrative instrument with minimal substantive content","Its sole function is procedural: to bring the parent Act into force on a specified date","No complex provisions, definitions, discretions, or obligations are created by the Proclamation itself","Context requires awareness of the parent Act to understand significance, adding minor interpretive complexity"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation brings the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006 into force, triggering its recognition and ex‑gratia payments scheme. It affects surviving Aboriginal Tasmanians who were removed from their families (and in some cases their descendants), enabling access to the Act’s benefits and marking Tasmania’s landmark formal acknowledgment of those historical removals."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not change the substance or scope of the underlying Act; it only fixes the date on which the Act begins to operate (15 January 2007) and records administrative and publication formalities."},"complexity_factors":["Single, discrete operative action: fixes a commencement date (15 January 2007) — low legislative complexity.","Legal authority is explicit: made under section 2 of the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006.","Formal signatories and publication steps required: Governor (with Executive Council), Minister endorsement, Gazette notification and display under the Rules Publication Act 1953.","No new statutory rights or obligations are created by the proclamation itself — limited compliance burden.","Administrative follow-up confined to the named agency (Department of Premier and Cabinet) to implement the Act from the commencement date."],"plain_english_summary":"*Sets 15 January 2007 as the commencement date for the* *Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006* *in Tasmania.* The Governor, acting with the Executive Council under section 2 of that Act, made the proclamation; the Department of Premier and Cabinet is named as the administering agency and the notice was published in the Gazette."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation is a legal instrument that brings legislation or provisions into force on a specified date. Without any operative text specifying which provisions are being proclaimed and on what date, the instrument is legally vacuous. Its currency is asserted without any content to be current.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The proclamation purports to be a version 'current from 27 December 2006 to date' yet the substantive operative provisions of the proclamation itself are entirely absent from the document. A proclamation with no operative text cannot meaningfully be 'current' in any legal sense."},{"type":"other","section":"Authorisation - File last modified 4 September 2018","severity":"low","reasoning":"A modification to the file in 2018 without any corresponding entry in the Table of Amending Instruments (which is merely linked rather than shown) raises questions about what changed and whether the 'current from 27 December 2006' claim accurately reflects the instrument's operative state.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The authorisation metadata states the file was last modified on 4 September 2018, yet the status information simultaneously asserts the legislation is current from 27 December 2006 'to date'. If the file was modified in 2018 with no corresponding amending instrument reflected, this creates an unresolved tension between the claimed currency and the modification history."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Update policy","severity":"low","reasoning":"Proclamations are not typically amended in the way that Acts or regulations are. Applying standard currency boilerplate to a proclamation produces a minor logical absurdity: there is nothing substantive to update, yet the instrument implies an ongoing update process.","confidence":0.7,"description":"The status information states legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change'. Applied to a proclamation — which is a one-time instrument fixing a commencement date — the concept of ongoing 'updates' is logically inapplicable. A proclamation either has or has not commenced provisions; it does not have a rolling amendment lifecycle in the ordinary sense."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version (current from 27 December 2006 to date)","section_b":"Authorisation - File last modified 4 September 2018","confidence":0.65,"description":"The instrument claims an unbroken version currency from 27 December 2006, implying no substantive change since commencement, yet the file was modified on 4 September 2018 — nearly 12 years later. These two claims are in direct tension: either something changed in 2018 (contradicting the single-version currency claim) or the modification was purely administrative (in which case the modification date is misleading as an indicator of legal change)."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-stolen-generations-of-aboriginal-children-act-2006/documents"}}