{"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":{"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":"## What This Law Does\n\nThis is a **revocation order** — meaning it cancels or repeals an earlier piece of legislation. Specifically, it scraps previous rules about **tobacco advertising** that existed under Tasmania's Public Health laws.\n\n## Who Does This Affect?\n\n- **Tobacco companies and advertisers** in Tasmania who were subject to the previous advertising rules\n- **Retailers and businesses** that sell or promote tobacco products\n- **Public health regulators** in Tasmania who enforce advertising restrictions\n\n## Why Does It Matter?\n\nWhen a revocation order is made, the old rules it targets stop applying. This could mean:\n- Certain **tobacco advertising restrictions were removed** (if replaced by nothing), OR\n- More likely, the old rules were being **replaced by updated, stronger national or state regulations** — such as those aligned with federal plain packaging laws\n\nGiven the context (2015, when Australia's national tobacco control framework was maturing), this order almost certainly cleared away **outdated Tasmanian advertising rules** that had been superseded by Commonwealth legislation, tidying up the statute book rather than weakening protections.\n\n## Bottom Line\n\nThis is administrative housekeeping — removing old Tasmanian tobacco ad rules that were likely redundant due to federal law. The practical impact on most people is minimal, but it matters for legal consistency and clarity."},"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."}]},"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."}},"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"}}