{"id":"reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975","name":"Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975","slug":"reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":106523,"registerId":"wa-reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nReserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975\n\nWestern Australia\n\nReserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975\n\nContents\n\n1. Short title 1\n\n2. Reserve No. 21288 1\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 2\n\n  \n\nWestern Australia\n\nReserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975\n\nAn Act to excise portion of Reserve No. 21288 for the Kwinana Freeway.\n\n##### 1. Short title\n\nThis Act may be cited as the *Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975*.\n\n##### 2. Reserve No. 21288\n\nReserve No. 21288 classified as of Class A and set apart for “Park Lands” is hereby amended by excising an area of 0.511 5 hectare as delineated and coloured pink on Lands and Surveys 2 Miscellaneous Plan No. 736 and the area of the reserve is reduced accordingly.\n\nNotes\n\n1. This is a compilation of the *Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975* and includes all amendments effected by the other Acts referred to in the following Table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Short title** | **Number and year** | **Assent** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| *Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975* | 12 of 1975 | 9 May 1975 | 9 May 1975 |\n\n\n2 Lands and Surveys plans are now being held by the Western Australian Land Information Authority (see the *Land Information Authority Act 2006* s. 100).\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains a single-purpose statute authorising the specified excision. The compilation table shows the original 1975 Act only and no substantive amendments; the notes only update where plans are held. There is no expansion or narrowing of the Act's original cadastral purpose in the text provided."},"complexity_factors":["Single substantive provision effecting a specific land excision (s 2)","Precise technical metric for area (0.5115 hectare) reduces ambiguity","Reference to an external cadastral plan (Lands and Surveys Misc. Plan No. 736)","Involves Class A reserve classification, which is a legal status reference","No ongoing regulatory regime, reporting, or procedural layers in the text","Compilation note linking plans to the Land Information Authority (notes) reduces operational uncertainty"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises Parliament to excise 0.5115 hectare from Reserve No. 21288, a Class A “Park Lands” reserve, and reduces the reserve area accordingly; the excision is for the Kwinana Freeway (long title; s 2).  \n\nThe law identifies the parcel by Lands and Surveys Misc. Plan No. 736 and performs a single cadastral change. The Act does not set out funding, compensation, or ongoing conditions — it is a statutory land-transfer instruction rather than a regulatory programme (s 2; notes)."},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed as the legislative text was not available. The source URL returned a 'page not found' error rather than the content of the Act."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was provided — only a broken webpage notice","Cannot assess complexity without access to the actual Act","Title alone suggests a narrow, single-purpose land reservation Act, which are typically straightforward"],"plain_english_summary":"## Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975\n\n**The content of this legislation is not available for analysis.**\n\nThe page provided does not contain the actual text of the *Reserve (Kwinana Freeway) Act 1975* (Western Australia). Instead, it shows a broken link notice from the Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office website, indicating the page has been moved or is temporarily unavailable due to system upgrades.\n\n**What we can reasonably infer from the title alone:**\n- This is a Western Australian law from 1975\n- It likely deals with the reservation of land for the Kwinana Freeway corridor in Perth, WA\n- Such laws typically set aside public land for road infrastructure purposes, restricting other uses of that land\n\n**If you need the actual legislation**, try:\n- Visiting [legislation.wa.gov.au](https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au) directly\n- Searching for the Act by name in the legislation database\n- Contacting the Parliamentary Counsel's Office Helpdesk as suggested on the page"},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains exactly as intended — a one-off technical amendment to a land reserve for a specific infrastructure project. No scope creep has occurred; it has not been amended since enactment."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections (short title and the excision provision)","Zero defined terms in the interpretation section (there is no interpretation section)","No cross-references to other legislation (except a historical note about where survey plans are now held)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Single, straightforward operative clause with no subsections","Total length: approximately 150 words of substantive law"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a very short Western Australian law from 1975 that simply cuts a small piece of land (about half a hectare) out of an existing public reserve so it can be used for the Kwinana Freeway.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Takes 0.5115 hectares (roughly 5,000 square metres, or about half the size of a football field) out of \"Reserve No. 21288\"\n- This reserve was originally set aside as \"Park Lands\" (Class A reserve)\n- The excised land is shown in pink on a specific survey plan (Lands and Surveys Miscellaneous Plan No. 736)\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Mainly relevant to government land managers and the transport department building the freeway\n- The general public using the park would notice slightly less park land\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- This is a classic example of a \"excision\" law — a technical, one-off statute needed to legally transfer land from one government purpose (parks) to another (roads)\n- These single-purpose Acts were common in the 1970s before more streamlined land management processes existed"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975","history":"/api/acts/reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975/history","analysis":"/api/acts/reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/reserve-kwinana-freeway-act-1975/documents"}}