{"id":"tas:sr-2004-014","name":"Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003","slug":"proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2003","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"14 of 2004","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":318094,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2004-014-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003","content":"> Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment 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-2003-082#GS2@EN) [Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2003-082) fix 17 March 2004 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n12 March 2004\n\nRichard Butler\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nBryan Green\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 17 March 2004\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":"There is no evidence of scope change. This is a straightforward commencement proclamation with a narrow, purely administrative purpose: to set the date on which the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003 (or relevant provisions of it) came into force. It does not appear to expand or narrow the original legislative intent."},"complexity_factors":["The document is a bare administrative proclamation with almost no substantive legal content of its own","Its legal effect depends entirely on the parent Amendment Act, which is not reproduced here","Minimal text is available for analysis — the document is largely metadata and formatting","Understanding its practical impact requires cross-referencing the 2003 Amendment Act"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation formally brought parts of the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003 into force in Tasmania, effective 17 March 2004. It doesn’t change policy itself but activated amendments affecting taxi drivers, operators, luxury hire businesses, regulators and passengers. It matters because it turned on statutory changes — likely to licensing, fees, vehicle standards or industry oversight — introduced by the 2003 Amendment Act."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard commencement proclamation performing exactly its intended function — bringing an Act into force on a specified date. The scope has not expanded beyond this purely administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (fixing a commencement date)","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation (except citation of the parent Act)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format with ceremonial language"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **commencement proclamation** — a formal government notice that brings a law into effect.\n\n**What it does:**\n- The Governor of Tasmania (acting on ministerial advice) has officially declared that the *Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003* will start operating on **17 March 2004**.\n\n**Why this matters:**\n- Laws passed by Parliament don't automatically take effect immediately. They often need a proclamation like this to set the actual start date.\n- This particular law made changes to how taxi and luxury hire car services are regulated in Tasmania.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Taxi and luxury hire car operators, drivers, and passengers in Tasmania — though this document itself is purely administrative, simply \"switching on\" the underlying law."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not change the scope or text of the Amendment Act; it only fixes the date (17 March 2004) on which that Act commences, notes Gazette notification, and records the administering department (Dept of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources)."},"complexity_factors":["Purely a commencement proclamation — no substantive amendment of the Act's content.","Made under a specific statutory power (section 2), requiring formal executive action.","Includes administrative formalities: Gazette notification and identification of administering department.","Temporal effect: fixes an operative date which activates the Act's existing regulatory obligations.","Low compliance complexity for readers, but triggers whatever compliance burdens are contained in the underlying Act."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation brings the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003 into force by fixing its commencement date as 17 March 2004. It was made by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council under section 2 of the Act.\n\nThe proclamation records Gazette notification and names the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources as the administering agency; from the stated date, people and businesses covered by the Act are subject to its requirements."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"A document cannot simultaneously claim currency up to a 2026 access date while having a last-modified date of 2017. If it were truly current, it would require updates reflecting any legislative changes or administrative rearrangements occurring between 2017 and 2026. The claim of currency is therefore either false or the document implicitly concedes nothing has changed in nearly a decade, which itself may be questionable.","confidence":0.75,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 17 March 2004 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 2:47)' yet the file was last modified on 5 July 2017. This creates a logical impossibility: the document purports to be current up to 2026 but has not been updated since 2017."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"The 3-working-day update promise is a procedural assurance of timeliness. However, if the file has not been modified since 2017 while the currency date extends to 2026, either no changes have occurred (making the promise untestable) or changes have occurred and not been reflected (making the promise breached). 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Compliance with an instrument that cannot be accurately read or cited is logically impossible.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The document contains extensively duplicated and partially truncated headings (e.g., 'Proclamation under the Taxi an Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2003'), suggesting a structural corruption that renders it impossible to determine the authoritative title or section numbering of the instrument."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version (access date 8 April 2026)","section_b":"Authorisation - File last modified 5 July 2017","confidence":0.8,"description":"The document claims to be current as of 8 April 2026, yet the authoritative file was last modified on 5 July 2017 — nearly nine years prior. 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