{"id":"tas:sr-2015-086","name":"Proclamation under the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015","slug":"proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"86 of 2015","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":186395,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2015-086-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015","content":"> Proclamation under the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015\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 [Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2015-034) fix 1 January 2016 as the day on which the provisions of that Act commence.\n\n27 November 2015\n\nC. WARNER\n\nGovernor\n\nBy Her Excellency's Command,\n\nJEREMY ROCKLIFF\n\nMinister for Primary Industries and Water\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 9 December 2015\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Proclamation serves its intended and narrow purpose: commencing the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015. There is no indication the scope has changed from the original intent of simply setting an operative date for the parent legislation."},"complexity_factors":["Minimal substantive content — the document is purely administrative in nature","Requires understanding of the parent Act (Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015) to appreciate its full significance","Transitional and consequential provisions frameworks can be conceptually layered, but this Proclamation itself does not elaborate on them","Document appears to have been retrieved with significant formatting/rendering duplication, making it harder to assess whether any substantive provisions exist"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation—a formal notice by the Tasmanian Governor—fixes 9 December 2015 as the commencement date for the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015. It brings the Act’s reforms into legal effect, affecting water licence holders, agencies administering water rights, and parties transitioning from previous arrangements."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a procedural commencement instrument performing exactly the function intended: bringing the parent Act into force on a specified date. No scope creep."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: fixes one 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 — essentially a template with blanks filled in"],"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 2016** as the date when the *Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015* starts operating.\n\n**Who made it:**\n- The **Governor of Tasmania** (acting on advice from the Executive Council, which is the formal body of senior ministers).\n- Signed by Governor C. Warner and Minister Jeremy Rockliff.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- Laws passed by Parliament don't always start immediately. This document officially \"switches on\" the 2015 amendments to Tasmania's water management laws.\n- Without this proclamation, the Act would remain dormant — passed but not legally active.\n\n**Key detail:**\n- This is **Tasmanian state legislation**, not Commonwealth (federal) law, despite the user's framing. The Governor mentioned is Tasmania's state Governor, not the Governor-General of Australia."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information / Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A 'current from' date typically signals the commencement of this version, but a modification in 2023 suggests there have been amendments or updates, undermining the implication of an unbroken single version spanning nearly a decade. This is a presentational ambiguity rather than a strict logical impossibility, but it creates a false impression of legislative stability.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 9 December 2015 to date' while also stating the file was last modified on 16 August 2023. If the Proclamation has required modification as recently as 2023, the claim that the version is current 'from 9 December 2015' is potentially misleading, implying static continuity across a period during which substantive changes occurred."},{"type":"other","section":"Document structure (entire document)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Legislation must be interpretable with certainty. A document where every heading is duplicated and section titles are truncated mid-word ('Water M') provides no reliable textual basis for interpretation. If the duplicated headings were treated as operative, there would be no singular authoritative statement of the law, creating an impossible compliance environment.","confidence":0.72,"description":"Every heading and substantive section in the document is duplicated verbatim — sometimes appearing three or four times (e.g., 'Proclamation under the Water M Proclamation under the Water Management Amendment...' appears as both a truncated and full version repeatedly). This renders the document internally incoherent as a piece of formal legislation, as it is impossible to determine which instance is the operative provision and which is metadata or rendering artefact."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Proclamation body","severity":"high","reasoning":"A Proclamation exists solely to perform a legal act — typically commencing legislation. Without any operative clause, the instrument has no legal effect. Any person or body seeking to rely on or comply with this Proclamation would find it impossible to determine what legal consequence, if any, it produces. This is a fundamental structural defect.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The document purports to be a Proclamation — a substantive executive instrument with legal effect — yet contains no operative proclamation text whatsoever. There is no commencement date proclaimed, no provisions brought into force, and no Governor's signature or seal referenced. A Proclamation with no operative content is a legal nullity: it cannot be complied with, interpreted, or enforced."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version: 'current from 9 December 2015 to date'","section_b":"Authorisation: 'File last modified 16 August 2023'","confidence":0.6,"description":"The document simultaneously asserts it represents a version current and unchanged since 9 December 2015, while the authorisation metadata confirms the file was modified as recently as 16 August 2023. These two statements cannot both be fully accurate — either the version has changed (contradicting the 'current from' date implying a single continuous version) or the modification was purely administrative and non-substantive, which is not disclosed."}]},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not alter the content or scope of the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015. It merely fixes the commencement date for that Act under section 2, bringing the Act’s provisions and transitional arrangements into force on 1 January 2016."},"complexity_factors":["Single, discrete legal effect: fixes a commencement date (1 January 2016).","Made under a statutory power (section 2) requiring Executive Council advice and Governor’s proclamation.","Administrative formalities: Gazette notification and departmental administration noted.","Does not contain substantive legislative detail; understanding legal impact requires reference to the parent Act."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation sets 1 January 2016 as the day the Water Management Amendment (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015 comes into force. Made by the Governor on the advice of the Executive Council under section 2, its mechanical effect is to trigger the Act’s amendments and transitional rules on that date. Affected agencies and persons must comply with those provisions from 1 January 2016; the notice was published in the Gazette on 9 December 2015."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015","history":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015/history","analysis":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/proclamation-under-the-water-management-amendment-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-act-2015/documents"}}