{"id":"tas:sr-2015-073","name":"Public Health (Tobacco Advertisements) Revocation Order 2015","slug":"public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"73 of 2015","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":186456,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2015-073-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","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 (Tobacco Advertisements) Revocation Order 2015](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2015-073) .","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 (Tobacco Advertisements) Order 2012 (No. 17 of 2012) |\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 21 October 2015\n\nThis order is administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a revocation instrument with a single, narrow purpose. It has not expanded beyond its original intent; it simply removes one specific piece of subordinate legislation as intended."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: 3 operative clauses plus a schedule","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation (except the revoked instrument itself)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Single, straightforward operation: revocation of one named instrument","Standard commencement provision (notification in Gazette)"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical piece of legislation that **removes an old tobacco advertising law from the books**.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Revokes (cancels) the *Public Health (Tobacco Advertisements) Order 2012*, which was a Tasmanian law regulating tobacco advertising.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Primarily government administrators and businesses that had to comply with the 2012 Order. For ordinary people, this means one less tobacco advertising rule to worry about, likely because it's been replaced by newer laws or is no longer needed.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- This is \"legislative housekeeping.\" Governments regularly clean up old laws that are redundant, outdated, or superseded by newer regulations. In this case, Tasmania is removing a 2012 tobacco advertising order—probably because national laws (like the *Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992* (Cth)) or newer state laws now cover the same ground.\n\n**Key point:** This doesn't legalise tobacco advertising. It just removes a specific 2012 Tasmanian instrument that is no longer necessary."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Document Structure (General)","severity":"low","reasoning":"Headings such as 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', and 'Authorisation Authorisation' appear duplicated throughout, indicating a structural defect in the published instrument. Though likely a metadata/display error, it undermines the principle that legislation must be intelligible.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document repeatedly duplicates its own headings and structural elements throughout, suggesting the legislation itself is internally incoherent at a presentational level. While this may be a rendering artefact, a legislative instrument published in this form lacks basic coherence."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Substantive Content (General)","severity":"high","reasoning":"A statutory instrument titled a 'Revocation Order' must contain an operative provision identifying what it revokes and when. Without that clause, the instrument cannot perform its sole legal function. No party could comply with, enforce, or rely upon a revocation order that does not specify what is revoked. This may reflect an incomplete document extract, but taken at face value, the instrument is legally inoperative.","confidence":0.7,"description":"A Revocation Order that contains no operative revocation provision in the text provided is logically incomplete. A revocation order's sole purpose is to revoke a prior instrument, yet no such operative clause is visible in the provided text."},{"type":"other","section":"Authorisation / File last modified 5 July 2017","severity":"low","reasoning":"A revocation order has no ongoing operative content after it takes effect; it extinguishes the target instrument. Modifying such an order nearly two years after commencement raises questions about what was changed and whether such a change is legally effective, given the spent nature of the instrument.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The instrument is stated to have been current from 21 October 2015, but the file was last modified on 5 July 2017. For a pure Revocation Order — an instrument that performs a single act upon commencement — any post-commencement modification is logically anomalous. Once an instrument has revoked another, there is nothing left to amend."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version: 'current from 21 October 2015 to date'","section_b":"Authorisation: 'File last modified 5 July 2017'","confidence":0.45,"description":"The instrument is described as having a single version current from 21 October 2015 to date, implying no amendments have altered its version currency, yet the file modification date of 5 July 2017 indicates a change was made approximately 21 months after commencement. These two statements are in tension: if the file was materially modified, one would expect a new version currency date."}]},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A revocation order is narrow by design — its sole purpose is to cancel a prior instrument. There is no indication the scope changed from its original intent. It does exactly what it says: revokes earlier tobacco advertisement rules under Tasmanian public health law."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument with a single purpose — revocation","Requires knowledge of the parent Act (Public Health Act) and the instrument being revoked to fully understand impact","No substantive new rules are created — complexity is low","Minimal text available to analyse — the order itself is not reproduced in the provided content","Understanding the real-world effect requires awareness of the broader Commonwealth tobacco advertising framework"],"plain_english_summary":"This revocation order cancels earlier Tasmanian rules on tobacco advertising, affecting tobacco companies, advertisers, retailers and the regulators who enforced those restrictions.  \n\nLikely administrative housekeeping, it removes outdated state provisions that were redundant after stronger national measures, so the practical effect is mainly legal tidying—clarifying which rules apply rather than creating new policy."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The instrument removes the entire regulatory scope of the Public Health (Tobacco Advertisements) Order 2012 by revoking that order (s 3; Schedule 1). Commencement on Gazette notification (s 2) means affected persons and entities cease to be subject to the 2012 order from that day. The revocation contains no transitional or replacement measures in this instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Single, discrete legal action: wholesale revocation of an earlier instrument (s 3; Schedule 1).","Simple commencement rule tied to Gazette notification, which creates a timing dependency on publication (s 2).","No definitions, exceptions, transitional or savings provisions in the text — potential operational gap for regulated parties (absence shown across the instrument).","Revocation references an external instrument (Public Health (Tobacco Advertisements) Order 2012) requiring cross-checking to determine concrete legal effects (Schedule 1).","Administrative responsibility is stated but operational details (enforcement, notices to affected parties) are absent (administration note)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument revokes the Public Health (Tobacco Advertisements) Order 2012 (No. 17 of 2012) and takes effect on the day its making is notified in the Gazette. It removes the 2012 order’s legal requirements from the statute book; the Department of Health and Human Services is listed as the administering agency, so parties previously regulated by the 2012 order will no longer be bound by its provisions on commencement."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015","history":"/api/acts/public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015/history","analysis":"/api/acts/public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/public-health-tobacco-advertisements-revocation-order-2015/documents"}}