{"id":"tas:sr-2008-112","name":"Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008","slug":"proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"112 of 2008","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":315513,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2008-112-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 (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008","content":"> Proclamation under the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008\n\nI, the Administrator 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](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2008-031#GS2@EN) of the [Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2008-031) fix 24 September 2008 as the day on which the provisions of that Act commence.\n\n17 September 2008\n\nE. C. CRAWFORD\n\nAdministrator\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 24 September 2008\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not alter the substance or scope of the underlying Act. It solely fixes the date (24 September 2008) on which the Act's provisions commence in Tasmania and identifies the administering department."},"complexity_factors":["Single, discrete operation: fixes a commencement date rather than creating new regulatory duties within the proclamation itself","Legal formality: uses standard executive procedure (Administrator acting with Executive Council advice)","Substantive content located in the parent Act — this instrument’s legal effect depends entirely on the content of the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008","Administrative allocation: identifies the administering department (Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources) but contains no delegated powers or rule‑making detail","Compliance impact is indirect: regulated parties bear costs, but the proclamation does not specify enforcement or transitional arrangements"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation brings the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008 into force in Tasmania on 24 September 2008. It was made by the Administrator acting on the advice of the Executive Council.\n\nFrom that date the amendments in the Act apply to regulators and to taxi and luxury‑hire operators in Tasmania; compliance obligations and any operational costs created by the Act fall on those businesses and the administering department."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A proclamation instrument described as unmodified since commencement in 2008 should not have a file modification date of 2018 unless an administrative or formatting change occurred. The instrument provides no explanation for this discrepancy, creating a minor but genuine logical inconsistency in its own metadata.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The instrument states it is 'current from 24 September 2008 to date' yet the file was last modified on 4 September 2018, predating the access date of 8 April 2026 by nearly 8 years. If the instrument has genuinely not been amended since 2008 but the file was modified in 2018, there is an unexplained internal discrepancy between the claimed currency and the modification history."},{"type":"other","section":"Title / Header","severity":"low","reasoning":"Repeated and truncated headings create ambiguity about which instance constitutes the operative title. While likely a web-rendering artefact, it technically produces a document that identifies itself inconsistently, which could be relevant to interpretation under the Acts Interpretation Act 1931 (Tas).","confidence":0.55,"description":"The proclamation's title and heading are duplicated multiple times verbatim within the same document (including truncated variants 'Taxi an' appearing alongside full titles), suggesting either a structural or publication error that may affect identification of the authoritative text."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version (update policy)","severity":"low","reasoning":"The update-within-3-days policy implies a continuous monitoring obligation, but the metadata suggests no update has been made since 2018. The instrument cannot self-verify whether this reflects genuine legislative stability or an administrative failure to update, creating a minor self-referential reliability problem.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The site states legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change,' yet the file modification date (4 September 2018) and the access date (8 April 2026) span approximately 7.5 years without any recorded update. If no change has occurred this is unremarkable, but the instrument provides no affirmative confirmation of that, leaving a logical gap between the stated update policy and the observable record."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - File last modified 4 September 2018","section_b":"Currency of version - current from 24 September 2008 to date","confidence":0.65,"description":"The instrument claims to be current and unaltered from its commencement date of 24 September 2008, yet records a file modification date of 4 September 2018 — nearly a decade later. These two statements are in tension: either the instrument was unchanged (making the 2018 modification date inexplicable), or it was modified (making the 'current from 2008' currency statement potentially misleading as to the version's true history)."}]},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A Proclamation of this nature has a narrow, fixed purpose — to bring an Act into force on a specified date. There is no indication of scope change; it performs exactly the function such instruments are designed to perform, with no evidence of expansion or restriction of the original Act's intended reach."},"complexity_factors":["The document is a bare Proclamation with minimal substantive content — it primarily sets a commencement date","The actual legal complexity resides in the underlying Act (Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008), not in this instrument itself","The document as presented is heavily duplicated/formatted metadata with very little operative text to analyse","No schedules, conditions, or staged commencement provisions are visible in the text provided"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation sets 24 September 2008 as the commencement date for the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008 in Tasmania. It activated consequential changes to laws affecting taxi and luxury hire-car operators, drivers and regulators, making the 2008 industry reforms legally binding — chiefly of historical significance today."},"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 remains precisely limited to this administrative function."},"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 following long-established conventions"],"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 **24 September 2008** as the date when the *Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008* starts operating.\n\n**Who made it:**\n- The **Administrator of Tasmania** (acting on behalf of the Governor, who was likely unavailable) with approval from the **Executive Council** (the Governor's advisory body of senior ministers).\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Laws passed by Parliament don't automatically take effect immediately. This proclamation officially \"switches on\" the Act so it can be enforced. Without this step, the law would remain inactive.\n\n**Context:**\n- This is a **Tasmanian** state law (not federal), dealing with changes to taxi and luxury hire car regulations. The proclamation was made on 17 September 2008 and published in the *Gazette* (the official government newspaper) on 24 September 2008 — the same day the law commenced."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-taxi-and-luxury-hire-car-industries-consequential-amendments-act-2008/documents"}}