{"id":"tas:sr-2000-245","name":"Proclamation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970","slug":"tas-sr-2000-245","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"245 of 2000","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":318864,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2000-245-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE 1 - Pieman River Stat","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE 1 - Pieman River State Reserve","content":"# SCHEDULE 1 - Pieman River Stat SCHEDULE 1 - Pieman River State Reserve","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE 2 - Plan","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE 2 - Plan","content":"# SCHEDULE 2 - Plan SCHEDULE 2 - Plan\n\n[![graphic image](/image/202023.gif)](/image/202023.gif)\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 27 December 2000\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.","sortOrder":1}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"rejected","complexity_score":2,"rejection_reason":"The provided text is clearly incomplete — it contains only metadata, headings, and navigation elements. The actual substantive content of the proclamation (the legal text declaring the reserve boundaries, the management plan provisions in Schedule 2) is missing. The repeated headings and broken formatting ('SCHEDULE 1 - Pieman River Stat') suggest this is a navigation page, stub, or extraction error rather than the actual legislative instrument.","scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The document appears to be a standard proclamation establishing a state reserve and its management plan, which aligns with the original purpose of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970. No evidence of scope creep visible in the provided fragment."},"complexity_factors":["Document is a stub/fragment with only metadata and headings visible — actual substantive content of the proclamation and schedules appears missing or not extracted","No defined terms section visible in provided text","No cross-referencing visible in provided text","Structure suggests simple two-schedule format (reserve declaration + management plan) typical of proclamations","Highly standardised, formulaic legislative instrument type"],"plain_english_summary":"This document is a **proclamation** (an official government announcement with legal force) made under Tasmania's National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970. It formally establishes the **Pieman River State Reserve** — a protected area of land — and sets out a **management plan** for how that area will be looked after.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Creates or confirms the Pieman River State Reserve as a protected area under Tasmanian law\n- Approves a formal plan (Schedule 2) that governs what activities are allowed in the reserve and how it will be managed\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Visitors to the Pieman River area (north-west Tasmania)\n- Anyone wanting to conduct commercial activities, development, or resource extraction in the area\n- The Tasmanian government department responsible for managing parks and wildlife\n\n**Why it matters:**\n- It gives legal protection to a specific area of natural environment\n- It sets the rules for what can and cannot happen in that area — balancing conservation with any permitted uses\n- Once proclaimed, the management plan has legal force and can be enforced against people who break its rules"},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A proclamation described as current from 2000 'to date' yet modified in 2024 raises questions about whether modifications constitute substantive amendments or merely administrative updates. If the latter, the currency claim is misleading; if the former, the Table of Amending Instruments should reflect this but the content provided gives no detail.","confidence":0.45,"description":"The legislation states it is 'current from 27 December 2000 to date' while simultaneously stating the file was 'last modified 3 December 2024', creating an ambiguity about whether the instrument is truly unamended or has been substantively altered without clear indication."},{"type":"retroactive_impossibility","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The access timestamp of '8 April 2026' combined with a file modification date of '3 December 2024' creates a logical tension: either the access date is erroneous (a system artefact) or the document is being described as accessed from a future point in time, which is self-evidently impossible for a contemporaneous legal instrument. This undermines the reliability of the currency statement for compliance purposes.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The legislation claims to be accessible as of '8 April 2026', which is a future date relative to any realistic drafting or publication date, suggesting either a system error or a temporal impossibility in the version metadata."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Entire document - Structural presentation","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Duplicated headings without duplicated substantive content create structural ambiguity. A person seeking to comply with or interpret the instrument cannot determine with certainty whether the repetition is intentional (indicating two separate provisions) or a publication error. This undermines the basic legal requirement that legislation be sufficiently certain and intelligible.","confidence":0.75,"description":"Every heading in the document is duplicated verbatim (e.g., 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'), suggesting a systemic rendering error that makes it impossible to determine whether there are one or two distinct provisions or sections under each heading."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information - Currency of version (update timeframe)","severity":"low","reasoning":"A version described as 'current' is simultaneously acknowledged to potentially not be current due to the 'usually' qualification on update timing. This creates a logical contradiction: the instrument cannot simultaneously be definitively 'current' and only 'usually' up to date. For a legal instrument, this introduces uncertainty about its authoritative status.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The statement that 'Legislation on this site is usually updated within 3 working days after a change to the legislation' qualifies the reliability of the currency claim with the word 'usually', meaning the version presented as authoritative may in fact be out of date at any given moment of access."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('Version current from 27 December 2000 to date')","section_b":"Status Information - Authorisation ('File last modified 3 December 2024')","confidence":0.55,"description":"The instrument is represented as continuously current since 27 December 2000 with no indicated substantive amendments, yet the file was modified on 3 December 2024, nearly 24 years later. If no amendments were made, the modification is unexplained; if amendments were made, the currency statement and Table of Amending Instruments (not reproduced) should clearly reflect them but the presented text does not reconcile these two facts."},{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('accessed 8 April 2026 at 3:17')","section_b":"Status Information - Authorisation ('File last modified 3 December 2024')","confidence":0.5,"description":"The file modification date of 3 December 2024 predates the stated access date of 8 April 2026 by approximately 16 months. While not strictly contradictory in isolation, combined with the 'usually updated within 3 working days' statement, it is impossible to confirm the version accessed on 8 April 2026 actually reflects any changes made between December 2024 and April 2026, directly contradicting the currency assurance."}]},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The text provided records the declaration and publication of the Pieman River State Reserve and its plan; it does not indicate any expansion, reduction, or alteration of scope from the instrument’s apparent original purpose. The instrument’s role is administrative—establishing a legal record and identifying the administering department—without additional substantive changes evident in the source."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, technical effect — primarily a formal designation and publication rather than substantive regulatory change.","Reliance on external references (Rules Publication Act 1953) to describe display/numbering procedures.","References a separate plan (Schedule 2) that is not reproduced in the text here, requiring cross-reference to understand boundaries/management detail.","Minimal operational detail: administering department named, but funding, permit regimes or enforcement measures are not specified.","Duplicate/verbose headings in the source introduce minor drafting ambiguity but do not expand legal scope."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation formally records the designation of the Pieman River State Reserve and the publication of its related plan. It states the reserve and plan are displayed and numbered under the Rules Publication Act 1953 and were notified in the Gazette on 27 December 2000.\n\nThe instrument affects the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment (named as the administering agency) and users of the reserve. Mechanically, it creates an official legal record of the reserve and links a plan to that legal designation."},"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Insufficient substantive content is present in the provided document to determine whether the scope changed from original intent. The proclamation has remained in force unchanged since 27 December 2000 based on available information, suggesting no major scope shift, but this cannot be confirmed without the operative text."},"complexity_factors":["The document as provided contains almost no substantive operative text — only metadata and status information — making full analysis impossible","Proclamations under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 can involve complex land descriptions using metes-and-bounds surveying language (technical boundary descriptions)","Interaction with broader Tasmanian land management and environmental law frameworks adds some complexity","Has been amended at least once (Table of Amendments referenced), though the nature of amendments is not disclosed in the provided text"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a Tasmanian Governor’s proclamation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 that (in principle) declares or alters protected land, affecting nearby landowners, residents, businesses, recreational users, researchers and resource industries.  \n\nIt matters because proclaimed land is subject to strict restrictions on clearing, building, hunting and commercial use. The document lacks its operative schedule specifying the exact land; it has been in force since 27 December 2000 and remains current."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2000-245","history":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2000-245/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2000-245/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2000-245/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2000-245/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2000-245/documents"}}