{"id":"tas:sr-2009-072","name":"State Service (Agencies and Heads of Agencies) Order 2009","slug":"state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"72 of 2009","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":315377,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2009-072-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 [State Service (Agencies and Heads of Agencies) Order 2009](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2009-072) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This order takes effect on 1 July 2009.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Principal Act","content":"### 3 Principal Act\n\n> In this order, the [State Service Act 2000](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2000-085) is referred to as the Principal Act.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4.","sectionType":"section","heading":null,"content":"### 4.\n\n> The amendment effected by this clause has been incorporated into the authorised version of the [State Service Act 2000](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2000-085) .\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 1 July 2009\n\nThis order is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Order has not grown beyond its original purpose; rather, it has shrunk to near-invisibility. It was always intended as a vehicle for amendments to the State Service Act 2000, and now that those amendments are incorporated, the Order serves only as a historical citation tool."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short—only 4 clauses, with clause 4 being a mere note about incorporation","Zero defined terms beyond the standard 'Principal Act' reference","No conditional logic, exceptions, or operative provisions remaining","No cross-references to other legislation beyond naming the parent Act","Essentially a 'spent' instrument—its substantive content has been absorbed into the principal Act"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short, technical piece of Tasmanian subordinate legislation (called a 'Statutory Rule') that came into effect on 1 July 2009. It serves two main purposes:\n\n- **It gives itself a name**: The legislation can be officially referred to as the 'State Service (Agencies and Heads of Agencies) Order 2009'.\n- **It links to the main law**: It confirms that the *State Service Act 2000* is the 'Principal Act' that this Order relates to.\n\n**What it actually does**: The Order originally made amendments to the *State Service Act 2000*, but those changes have already been 'incorporated' (merged) into the main Act. This means the Order itself no longer contains active, standalone rules—it's essentially a historical record showing that amendments were made and when they took effect.\n\n**Who it affects**: Public servants in Tasmania's State Service, though practically speaking, they would now look at the updated *State Service Act 2000* rather than this Order.\n\n**Why it matters**: It provides the legal foundation for how Tasmanian government agencies and their heads were structured or renamed at that time. For current operations, its content lives on in the main Act."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available content, the order appears to have maintained its original administrative purpose of listing agencies and their heads within the Tasmanian State Service. Amendments over time likely reflect machinery-of-government changes (renaming or restructuring departments) rather than any expansion or contraction of the order's fundamental scope."},"complexity_factors":["Limited substantive content is visible — the document appears to be largely metadata and status information rather than detailed operative provisions","The order is an administrative instrument rather than complex substantive legislation, dealing with organisational naming and structure","It relies on understanding related instruments (Administrative Arrangement Orders, State Service Act 2000) for full context, adding minor complexity","Has been amended multiple times since 2009, meaning the current version may differ significantly from the original, requiring cross-referencing"],"plain_english_summary":"## State Service (Agencies and Heads of Agencies) Order 2009\n\nThis is a Tasmanian government administrative order that formally sets out which **agencies** (government departments and bodies) make up the Tasmanian State Service, and who the **head of each agency** is (the most senior official responsible for running it).\n\n### Who does it affect?\n- **Public servants** working in Tasmanian government agencies — it determines which organisation they officially belong to and who is ultimately in charge of it.\n- **Heads of agencies** (like Secretaries of Departments) — their roles and authority are formally recognised through this order.\n- **Members of the public** dealing with government — it clarifies which agency is responsible for which functions.\n\n### Why does it matter?\nUnder the *State Service Act 2000* (Tasmania), the government needs a formal legal document to define the structure of the public service. This order does that job. It essentially draws the organisational map of the Tasmanian public service, which determines things like employment conditions, accountability chains, and which minister oversees which agency.\n\n### Key points\n- Has been in force since **1 July 2009** with amendments along the way\n- Gets updated when government departments are restructured or renamed\n- Works alongside **Administrative Arrangement Orders** (documents that allocate government responsibilities to ministers) to keep the public service structure current\n- Relatively routine administrative machinery, but important for the day-to-day functioning of government"},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information / Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A document claiming currency 'to date' (accessed 8 April 2026) while showing a last modification date of 5 July 2017 creates a temporal tension — either the document has not been updated in nearly 9 years (potentially inconsistent with the 'usually updated within 3 working days' assurance), or the modification date is incomplete metadata. This is not a strict legal absurdity but reflects a self-referential credibility problem in the status information.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The legislation states it is 'current from 1 July 2009 to date' while simultaneously stating the file was last modified on 5 July 2017, yet no amendment history or substantive content is visible in the provided text."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information – Update Assurance","severity":"low","reasoning":"An administrative assurance about update timeliness embedded within the instrument itself creates no legal right or remedy for a person who relies on an outdated version. It is a representation that cannot be enforced and is therefore logically superfluous as a legal statement.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The instrument asserts legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change' but provides no enforceable mechanism or obligation to ensure this occurs, rendering the assurance legally meaningless and potentially misleading to readers relying on currency."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Whole instrument as provided","severity":"high","reasoning":"The title and purpose of the instrument is to designate State Service agencies and their heads. Without that operative content, the instrument cannot fulfil its stated legal function. Compliance with or reliance upon the instrument is impossible if no agencies or heads are named. This may reflect a document extraction failure rather than a true legislative defect, but assessed on the text as provided, the instrument is operatively empty.","confidence":0.7,"description":"The substantive operative content of the Order — the actual listing of agencies and heads of agencies — is entirely absent from the provided text. An Order that purports to establish agencies and their heads but contains no such designations is functionally void on its face."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version: 'Version current from 1 July 2009 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:48)'","section_b":"Authorisation: 'File last modified 5 July 2017'","confidence":0.5,"description":"The version is represented as current to 8 April 2026, but the file modification date is 5 July 2017. If the instrument or its consolidation was genuinely current to 2026, one would expect a more recent modification date reflecting any amendments or administrative updates made in the intervening ~9 years."},{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information: 'Legislation on this site is usually updated within 3 working days after a change to the legislation'","section_b":"Authorisation: 'File last modified 5 July 2017'","confidence":0.45,"description":"The update-timeliness assurance implies ongoing maintenance and prompt reflection of changes, which contradicts the apparent stasis of the file since 5 July 2017 across a nearly 9-year window to the access date of 8 April 2026, unless no amendments at all were made in that period — which for an administrative machinery instrument covering agency structures over nearly a decade would be highly unusual."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009","history":"/api/acts/state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009/history","analysis":"/api/acts/state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/state-service-agencies-and-heads-of-agencies-order-2009/documents"}}