{"id":"tas:sr-2012-009","name":"Public Health (Exemption) Revocation Order 2012","slug":"public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"9 of 2012","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":314462,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2012-009-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This order may be cited as the [Public Health (Exemption) Revocation Order 2012](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2012-009) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This order takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the *Gazette*.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Legislation revoked","content":"### 3 Legislation revoked\n\n> The legislation specified in [Schedule 1](#JS1@EN) is revoked.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation revok","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation revoked","content":"# SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation revok SCHEDULE 1 - Legislation revoked\n\n[Clause 3](#GS3@EN)\n\n| Public Health (Exemption) Order (No. 2) 2000 (No. 191 of 2000) |\n| Public Health (Exemption) Order 2005 (No. 165 of 2005) |\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 14 March 2012\n\nThis order is administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The order appears to do exactly what its title states — revoke an existing public health exemption. There is no evidence in the available text that its scope expanded or narrowed beyond that single administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single, narrow purpose — revoking one specific exemption","Instrument is administrative/procedural rather than creating new substantive law","Limited text provided makes it impossible to assess any hidden complexity in the revoked exemption itself","No amending history of note visible","Straightforward legal mechanism (revocation) with no apparent conditions or staged implementation"],"plain_english_summary":"## Public Health (Exemption) Revocation Order 2012 (Tasmania)\n\nThis is a **Tasmanian government order** that cancels (revokes) a previously granted exemption under public health law.\n\n**What it does:** It removes an exemption that had been in place under Tasmania's *Public Health Act*. When an exemption is revoked, whoever previously benefited from it — whether a business, organisation, or individual — must now fully comply with the public health rules that the exemption had let them avoid.\n\n**Who it affects:** Anyone or any organisation that was relying on the specific public health exemption being cancelled. Without knowing the exact exemption being revoked, it is not possible to name the specific affected parties — but the practical effect is that those people/entities must now meet the standard public health requirements they were previously excused from.\n\n**Why it matters:** Revoking an exemption tightens public health compliance obligations. This could affect areas such as food safety, sanitation, disease control, or other regulated public health matters in Tasmania.\n\n**Bottom line:** A previously granted 'get out of jail free card' from a public health rule has been cancelled. Anyone who had that exemption now has to play by the same rules as everyone else.\n\n> ⚠️ **Note:** The full substantive content of this order (i.e., exactly *which* exemption is being revoked) does not appear in the text provided, which limits a more detailed analysis."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Title / Entire Instrument","severity":"high","reasoning":"A Revocation Order must identify the instrument being revoked to have any legal effect. If the operative clause is missing, the order cannot perform its stated function and is arguably a legal nullity. No person or body could comply with or rely upon it without knowing what exemption has been revoked.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The instrument is titled a 'Revocation Order' but the actual operative content revoking anything is entirely absent from the provided text. The legislation purports to revoke something without specifying what is being revoked."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"If the version is presented as current from 14 March 2012 with no amendments listed in the Table of Amending Instruments, it is internally inconsistent that the file was modified on 29 June 2022. Either amendments occurred and are not disclosed, or the modification date is misleading as to the instrument's stability.","confidence":0.72,"description":"The instrument states it has been current 'from 14 March 2012 to date' yet the file was last modified on 29 June 2022, a full decade after the instrument was supposedly finalised and in its final form. This suggests the instrument was substantively altered after commencement without any corresponding amending instrument being identified in the body of the text."},{"type":"other","section":"Entire Document Structure","severity":"low","reasoning":"While likely a rendering or compilation artifact, duplicated provisions in a legal instrument create interpretive uncertainty. A court or administrator faced with two identical provisions would need to determine whether each has independent operative effect or one is surplusage, which wastes interpretive resources and undermines legislative clarity.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The document contains wholesale duplication of every heading, section title, and substantive passage (e.g., 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'). This creates structural ambiguity as to which version of each duplicated provision is operative."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Responsible Minister and Department","severity":"low","reasoning":"Identifying the responsible Minister via an external, ambulatory reference means the administrative responsibility for this instrument is indeterminate at any given moment. For a revocation instrument — which must be administered at a specific point in time — this creates a potential gap in accountability.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The instrument directs readers to 'See the latest Administrative Arrangement Order' to identify the responsible Minister and Department, but provides no fallback mechanism if that order is itself revoked, amended, or unclear. A revocation order thus cannot be administered if the Administrative Arrangement Order is in flux."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('Version current from 14 March 2012 to date')","section_b":"Authorisation ('File last modified 29 June 2022')","confidence":0.75,"description":"The instrument claims an unbroken currency from 14 March 2012 with no amendments listed, yet the file modification date of 29 June 2022 implies substantive or structural changes were made more than ten years after the instrument's commencement. These two statements cannot both be entirely accurate."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Title ('Revocation Order 2012' — implying a complete, operative instrument)","section_b":"Body of the instrument (containing no operative revocation clause)","confidence":0.8,"description":"The title characterises this as an operative Revocation Order, which by legal convention must contain an operative clause identifying the revoked instrument. The body contains only administrative and status metadata. The instrument's title and its actual content are therefore in direct contradiction."}]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This legislation performs exactly the function its title suggests: revoking specific exemption orders. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the straightforward administrative task of removing outdated instruments."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 3 operative clauses plus a schedule","No defined terms section","No conditional logic or exceptions","No cross-references to other legislation (except the two orders being revoked)","Single, straightforward purpose: revocation of named instruments","No substantive regulatory content—purely administrative"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical piece of legislation that **cancels two older public health orders** from 2000 and 2005.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Revokes (cancels) two previous exemption orders:\n  - The Public Health (Exemption) Order (No. 2) 2000\n  - The Public Health (Exemption) Order 2005\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone who was relying on exemptions granted under those 2000 and 2005 orders. Those exemptions no longer apply from the date this order takes effect.\n- The Department of Health and Human Services, which administers public health regulations.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- This is a **housekeeping measure**. The government is cleaning up old exemption orders, likely because they are outdated, no longer needed, or have been replaced by newer rules.\n- If you or your business were operating under an exemption from those old orders, you need to check whether you still have a legal basis for what you're doing, or whether you now need to comply with the standard public health rules that everyone else follows.\n\n**Key point:** This order doesn't create new rules—it simply removes old exemptions. Think of it as the government closing loopholes that are no longer appropriate."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012","history":"/api/acts/public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012/history","analysis":"/api/acts/public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/public-health-exemption-revocation-order-2012/documents"}}