{"id":"tas:sr-2016-105","name":"Proclamation under the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016","slug":"proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"105 of 2016","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":186203,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2016-105-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016","content":"> Proclamation under the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016\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-2016-035#GS2@EN) [Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2016-035) fix 8 December 2016 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n29 November 2016\n\nC. WARNER\n\nGovernor\n\nBy Her Excellency's Command,\n\nWILLIAM E. F. HODGMAN\n\nPremier\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 7 December 2016\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A proclamation of this type has a single, narrow purpose — to set a commencement date for an existing Act. There is no indication of scope change from original intent. The proclamation does exactly what it was designed to do: activate the winding-up legislation on a specified date (7 December 2016)."},"complexity_factors":["The document itself is extremely brief — it is purely a commencement proclamation with no substantive legal provisions of its own","Its effect depends entirely on understanding the parent Act (Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016), which is not reproduced here","Standard administrative instrument with no novel legal concepts or contested interpretive issues","Limited text available for analysis — the document appears to be largely metadata and status information rather than operative legal content"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation — a Governor’s formal commencement notice — sets 7 December 2016 as the date the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016 takes effect.  \n\nThat switch-on legally starts the Foundation’s closure, affecting its staff, partner organisations, families and children who used its services, and government agencies assuming its functions and assets."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This proclamation serves its original and sole purpose: to commence the parent Act on a specific date. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond this narrow administrative function."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: fixes one commencement date","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation beyond citation of the parent Act","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard ceremonial/formulaic language only","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 about closing down an organisation called the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Activates the law:** It officially declares that the *Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016* will take effect on **8 December 2016**.\n\n**Who is involved:**\n- **The Governor of Tasmania** (C. Warner) — who formally signs off on the decision\n- **The Executive Council** — the Governor's advisory body (senior government ministers)\n- **The Premier** (Will Hodgman) — who authorises the proclamation on behalf of the government\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 specify when they begin.\n- This particular law deals with winding up (closing down and distributing assets of) the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation, which was a government-established body focused on early childhood services.\n- Without this proclamation, the winding-up law would sit inactive."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not alter the content or scope of the Act; it solely fixes the date the Act (and its winding‑up provisions) becomes operative under s.2, and records its publication and administrative responsibility."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative action: fixes commencement date rather than changing substantive law","Formal legal actors involved: Governor acting with Executive Council (identifies decision‑maker)","Reference to statutory authority: made under s.2 of the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding‑up) Act 2016","Publication/notification requirement: Gazette notice recorded","Administrative detail: identifies Department of Premier and Cabinet as administrator","Low compliance burden: no new obligations or regulatory mechanisms introduced by the proclamation itself"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation brings the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016 into force on 8 December 2016, made under s.2 of that Act and published in the Gazette on 7 December 2016. It makes the Act's winding‑up powers operative, affecting the Foundation, its creditors, staff and officials responsible for administering the wind‑up (the Governor acting with Executive Council set the date; administration rests with the Department of Premier and Cabinet)."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A file last modified in July 2017 asserting currency to April 2026 is internally questionable. The claim of ongoing currency is undercut by the static modification date, creating a representational tension about whether the document has genuinely been monitored and confirmed current across nearly a decade.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 7 December 2016 to date (accessed 5 April 2026 at 17:43)' but also states 'File last modified 5 July 2017'. If the file was last modified in 2017, it cannot meaningfully claim currency to 2026 without verification of that claim."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Document Structure - General","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation is an instrument that must contain operative provisions (e.g., a commencement date, a declaration, an appointed date for the Act to take effect). This document contains exclusively metadata, status information, and navigation elements — all repeated — with zero operative clauses. There is nothing for any person to comply with, enforce, or give legal effect to. This renders the published instrument functionally meaningless as a legal document.","confidence":0.92,"description":"Every heading, section title, and substantive metadata element in this proclamation is duplicated verbatim — sometimes three or four times — suggesting the document as presented contains no actual operative legal content whatsoever. A proclamation with no operative provisions is a legal nullity."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Table of Amending Instruments","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Winding-up proclamations under Australian legislative practice are generally spent instruments — they operate once to appoint a date and thereafter have no ongoing legal operation. Amending a spent proclamation serves no practical legal purpose and creates an absurdity: what exactly is being amended after the operative effect has been exhausted?","confidence":0.65,"description":"The document references a 'Table of Amendments' implying the proclamation has been amended, yet a winding-up proclamation is typically a one-time instrument with a single operative effect (appointing a date). The existence of amendments to such an instrument is conceptually strange — once a body is wound up on a proclaimed date, there is nothing substantive left to amend."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('current... to date, accessed 5 April 2026')","section_b":"Authorisation ('File last modified 5 July 2017')","confidence":0.6,"description":"The document simultaneously claims to reflect the law as accessed on 5 April 2026 and discloses that the underlying file was last modified on 5 July 2017 — a gap of approximately 8 years and 9 months. These two claims are in direct tension: a file unmodified since 2017 cannot independently substantiate a claim of currency to 2026."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Header - 'Proclamation under the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (Winding-up) Act 2016'","section_b":"Body content (entirety)","confidence":0.9,"description":"The title declares this to be a legally operative proclamation made under a specific Act, but the entire body of the document contains only administrative metadata and navigation boilerplate with no operative proclamation text. The title and the content are fundamentally contradictory as to what legal instrument this purports to be."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-tasmanian-early-years-foundation-winding-up-act-2016/documents"}}