{"id":"tas:sr-2013-110","name":"Proclamation under the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013","slug":"tas-sr-2013-110","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"110 of 2013","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":314126,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2013-110-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013","content":"> Proclamation under the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013\n\nI, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, by this my proclamation made under [section 2 of the](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2013-064#GS2@EN) [Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2013-064) fix 18 December 2013 as the day on which sections 41 and 42 of that Act commence.\n\n16 December 2013\n\nPETER G. UNDERWOOD\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nMICHELLE O'BYRNE\n\nMinister for Children\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 18 December 2013","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not change the content or scope of the Amendment Act; it simply brings sections 41 and 42 into force on 18 December 2013, making their existing legal effects operative from that date."},"complexity_factors":["Purely procedural: fixes a commencement date rather than amending substantive law.","Narrow scope: applies only to sections 41 and 42 of the Amendment Act.","Relies on the Governor's proclamation power under section 2 of the Amendment Act (procedural legal authority).","Requires cross‑reference to the principal Act to determine practical effects on parties subject to those sections.","Minimal administrative or compliance burden from the proclamation itself; substantive obligations (if any) lie in the commenced sections."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation, signed by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, sets 18 December 2013 as the date on which sections 41 and 42 of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013 take effect. It therefore brings the legal consequences of those two provisions into force from that date and affects the persons and organisations covered by those sections; it does not alter the text of the Act."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"A proclamation is a narrow, administrative instrument with a single purpose: to set a commencement date. There is no indication of scope change — it appears to perform exactly the function intended, bringing the 2013 Amendment Act into force on 18 December 2013."},"complexity_factors":["The document is purely procedural — it is a commencement instrument, not substantive law","Very limited actual content is present; the document is largely metadata and status information","The complexity lies not in this document but in the parent Act it activates, which is not reproduced here","No technical legal provisions, definitions, or operative clauses are visible in the text provided"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation by the Governor of Tasmania brings the amendments in the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013 into legal effect from 18 December 2013. It affects children, families, child-protection workers and courts in Tasmania by fixing when the changed legal framework for child welfare and state intervention began to apply."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information / Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"A proclamation that has been modified in 2018 but claims currency only from 2013 without noting the 2018 modification as a version boundary is ambiguous. If modifications occurred in 2018, the 'current from' date may be misleading to users relying on version information for legal certainty.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The document states it is 'current from 18 December 2013 to date' yet also states the file was last modified on 10 August 2018, creating an internal inconsistency about when the instrument was last substantively changed versus when it is considered current."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Document Structure / Entire Instrument","severity":"high","reasoning":"A proclamation without operative content — i.e. without specifying which sections of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013 commence, and on what date — cannot fulfil its legal function. Persons and agencies subject to the Act cannot determine what law applies or from when, making compliance practically impossible and legal certainty unachievable.","confidence":0.72,"description":"The proclamation instrument appears to contain no operative provisions whatsoever. A proclamation under an Amendment Act exists solely to bring provisions into force on a specified date, yet no commencement date, no identified provisions being proclaimed, and no substantive operative text is present in the reproduced instrument."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information — 'usually updated within 3 working days'","severity":"low","reasoning":"If any administrative arrangement orders changed the responsible minister or department between 2018 and 2026 (highly probable over a seven-year span), the instrument's metadata would be stale in breach of its own stated currency guarantee. This is not a flaw in the substantive law but is a practical absurdity in the instrument's self-described reliability.","confidence":0.5,"description":"The currency statement promises updates 'usually within 3 working days after a change to the legislation', yet the file was last modified 10 August 2018 and no amendments appear to have been recorded since, despite the document being accessed in April 2026 — a gap of over seven years with no recorded change, which may itself represent a failure to update."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version — 'current from 18 December 2013 to date'","section_b":"Authorisation — 'File last modified 10 August 2018'","confidence":0.6,"description":"The version currency header asserts the instrument has been current in its present form since 18 December 2013, implying no substantive change since commencement. However, the authorisation block records the file was last modified on 10 August 2018, suggesting some change occurred nearly five years after the stated currency start date. These two statements cannot both be fully accurate simultaneously."}]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a procedural commencement instrument with no substantive scope beyond its original purpose of bringing specified provisions into force."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: fixes one commencement date for two specified sections","No defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation (except citation of the empowering Act)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Standard proclamation format — essentially a template with blanks filled in"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **commencement proclamation** — a formal government notice that brings specific parts of a law into force.\n\n**What it does:**\n- The Tasmanian Governor (acting on ministerial advice) has officially declared that **sections 41 and 42** of the *Children, Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Act 2013* will start having legal effect on **18 December 2013**.\n\n**Why this matters:**\n- Laws passed by Parliament don't always take effect immediately. Some need a later \"start date\" to be proclaimed (officially announced) by the Governor.\n- This document is that official announcement — it flips the switch on those two specific sections.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone dealing with Tasmanian child protection and family services law, as sections 41 and 42 of that Amendment Act would have changed how those systems operate from 18 December 2013 onwards.\n\n**Key point:** This is not the Amendment Act itself — it's just the \"on\" button for two particular parts of it."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-110","history":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-110/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-110/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-110/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-110/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-110/documents"}}