{"id":"tas:sr-2009-196","name":"Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009","slug":"proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"196 of 2009","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":315276,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2009-196-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 2009","content":"> Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009\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-2009-063#GS2@EN) [Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2009-063) fix 1 January 2010 as the day on which that Act commences.\n\n21 December 2009\n\nPETER G. UNDERWOOD\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nG. L. STURGES\n\nMinister for Infrastructure\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 30 December 2009\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":"This is a commencement proclamation only. Its scope is entirely consistent with its original intent — to bring the 2009 Amendment Act into force. No expansion or contraction of scope is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Purely procedural instrument with no substantive legal content of its own","Requires cross-referencing the parent Act (Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009) to understand real-world impact","Minimal text provided — the proclamation's operative content (commencement date/provisions activated) is not fully reproduced in the excerpt","Standard form instrument familiar to legal practitioners but potentially confusing to laypeople unfamiliar with how proclamations work"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation by the Governor of Tasmania simply brings the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009 into effect, declaring when the Act’s changes take legal force.\n\nIt affects taxi drivers, luxury hire operators, industry regulators and users of these services in Tasmania by switching on whatever licensing, standards or regulatory amendments the parent Act introduced, effective 30 December 2009."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation exercises the power in section 2 to fix the Act's commencement date; it does not alter the Act's substantive scope or content and therefore does not change the original legislative scope."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative function: sets a commencement date (references s.2 of the Amendment Act).","Routine legal formalities: Governor's proclamation on Executive Council advice, ministerial signature, Gazette notification.","Administrative assignment: identifies the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources as administrator.","No change to substantive law: does not amend or add provisions to the Amendment Act—only timing is fixed.","Implementation timing risk: compressed window between proclamation (21 Dec 2009) and commencement (1 Jan 2010) may create short-term compliance/administrative burdens."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation fixes 1 January 2010 as the day the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009 starts to operate, made by the Governor under section 2. It makes the Act legally effective from that date, so businesses and individuals covered by the Act must meet any new obligations from 1 January 2010. The decision was made on 21 December 2009 with Gazette notification on 30 December 2009; the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources administers the proclamation."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard commencement instrument performing exactly the function intended — bringing an Act into force on a specified date. No scope creep."},"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 with ceremonial language only"],"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 2010** as the date when the *Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009* (Tasmania) starts operating.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone involved in Tasmania's taxi and luxury hire car industries — drivers, operators, and passengers — from 1 January 2010 onwards.\n- The government department responsible for administering the Act (Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources).\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Laws don't automatically start working when Parliament passes them. This proclamation officially \"switches on\" the 2009 amendments, telling everyone exactly when the new rules apply.\n- Without this document, the Amendment Act would remain inactive, leaving older rules in place indefinitely."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Title/Header","severity":"medium","reasoning":"A proclamation is a formal legal instrument. Repeated truncation of its own title ('Taxi an' instead of 'Taxi and') across multiple headings suggests the document as presented is not a complete or properly formatted legal instrument. While likely a publishing/rendering error, it raises a question about whether the accessible version is authoritative.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The proclamation title is truncated as 'Taxi an' in multiple headings, suggesting the document as published is incomplete or malformed, raising questions about whether the instrument as accessible constitutes a valid, complete legal instrument."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"The 'last modified' date of 5 July 2017 is inconsistent with a currency claim extending to April 2026 with no intervening amendments noted in the visible text. This is likely a dynamic timestamp, but as a matter of legal document integrity, the instrument's authority metadata appears self-contradictory — it claims currency to a date nearly 9 years after its last recorded modification without explanation.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 30 December 2009 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:46)' yet the file was last modified on 5 July 2017. If the instrument was truly unmodified since 2009 (or 2017), referencing a future access date of 2026 creates an internal temporal paradox in the context of the document's own stated modification history."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A proclamation under an Amendment Act is typically a one-time instrument fixing a commencement date. It does not get amended or updated. The boilerplate update disclaimer is logically inapplicable and creates a misleading impression that the proclamation is a living legislative instrument subject to ongoing amendment.","confidence":0.7,"description":"The statement that 'legislation on this site is usually updated within 3 working days after a change to the legislation' is internally incoherent when applied to a proclamation — a proclamation is a single-use instrument that commences an Act or provisions thereof and does not itself change. Describing an update cycle for a proclamation conflates the nature of a proclamation with that of ongoing legislation."},{"type":"other","section":"Entire Document Structure","severity":"high","reasoning":"Every section header appears twice in sequence throughout the document. This is not a legal flaw per se but a serious document integrity issue — if this were the authoritative version of a proclamation, it would be impossible to determine which instance of each section is operative. For a proclamation, where the operative text matters for determining commencement of legislation, this duplication creates genuine interpretive uncertainty.","confidence":0.95,"description":"Every heading and section in the document is duplicated verbatim (e.g., 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'). The document appears to contain its own duplicate, meaning the legal instrument as published is structurally nonsensical and potentially presents two competing versions of itself."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - File last modified 5 July 2017","section_b":"Status Information - Currency of version: current from 30 December 2009 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:46)","confidence":0.55,"description":"The file's last modification date is 5 July 2017, yet the currency statement asserts the version is current to April 2026 with no amendments listed. If the file has not been modified since 2017, the dynamic 'to date' currency claim is contradicted by the static modification record, as any update to reflect currency should itself constitute a file modification."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Title: 'Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Amendment Act 2009'","section_b":"Multiple headings rendered as: 'Proclamation under the Taxi an'","confidence":0.85,"description":"The full title in some instances correctly identifies the parent Act, while other headings in the same document truncate it to 'Taxi an', creating an internal inconsistency about the instrument's own name and parent Act reference within the same document."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-amendment-act-2009/documents"}}