{"id":"tas:sr-2013-114","name":"Proclamation under the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013","slug":"tas-sr-2013-114","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"114 of 2013","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":314127,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2013-114-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Proclamation under the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013","content":"> Proclamation under the Land Use Planning and Approvals 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-2013-059#GS2@EN) [Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2013-059) fix 1 January 2014 as the day on which sections 11, 12, 13, 25 and 26 of that Act commence.\n\n16 December 2013\n\nPETER G. UNDERWOOD\n\nGovernor\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nBRYAN GREEN\n\nMinister for Planning\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 25 December 2013\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of Justice.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation does not alter the substantive scope or content of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013; it only fixes the commencement date (1 January 2014) for the listed sections and does not add, remove or amend provisions."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, procedural function: only sets a commencement date for specified sections rather than creating new substantive law.","Dependence on another instrument for substantive effect: the proclamation has effect only through the referenced Amendment Act.","Formal executive decision-making: issued by the Governor with Executive Council advice (constitutional/administrative formality).","Temporal specificity: a single fixed commencement date reduces ongoing administrative discretion.","Minimal compliance or implementation detail in the instrument itself (operational consequences determined by the commenced sections)."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation fixes 1 January 2014 as the day that sections 11, 12, 13, 25 and 26 of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013 come into force. It makes those parts of the Act operative in Tasmania on that date; the commencement was made by the Governor acting with the advice of the Executive Council and is administered by the Department of Justice."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"The coexistence of a 2026 access date with a 2017 last-modified date creates an implicit tension: either changes have occurred that are not reflected (contradicting the 3-working-day update promise), or no changes have occurred, making the update assurance an empty guarantee. Neither scenario is strictly impossible but the combination undermines confidence in the document's reliability.","confidence":0.55,"description":"The version is stated as 'current from 25 December 2013 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:25)' while the file is stated to have been last modified on 5 July 2017. If no amendments have been made since 2017, the claim that the legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change' is rendered meaningless in context, and the access date of 2026 implies a nearly 9-year period of currency with no substantive update."},{"type":"other","section":"Title / Header","severity":"medium","reasoning":"While this may be a rendering artefact, a proclamation derives its legal force partly from precise identification of the enabling Act. Truncated and duplicated titles create ambiguity about which instrument is being proclaimed, which could affect legal certainty as to the instrument's validity and scope.","confidence":0.6,"description":"The proclamation's title is duplicated and partially truncated multiple times ('Land Us Proclamation under the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013'), suggesting the document as presented is structurally malformed. A proclamation that cannot correctly state its own name introduces an administrative absurdity regarding which instrument is actually in force."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information - Currency of version","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Proclamations under amendment acts typically serve to commence provisions of the parent Act. If the Amendment Act's provisions have all been commenced, the proclamation has exhausted its operative purpose; if not all provisions were commenced, there is no visible body text to confirm what was or was not brought into force. The document as presented contains no operative clauses whatsoever, making it impossible to assess compliance or effect.","confidence":0.7,"description":"The proclamation purports to have been in continuous force from 25 December 2013 to the access date of 8 April 2026 — a span of over 12 years — yet the Table of Amending Instruments is merely linked rather than reproduced. A proclamation under an Amendment Act that has apparently attracted amendments yet shows no substantive body of operative provisions in the text presented raises the question of what legal content actually remains in force."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information - Currency of version ('usually updated within 3 working days after a change')","section_b":"Authorisation ('File last modified 5 July 2017')","confidence":0.5,"description":"The site's assurance that legislation is updated within 3 working days of any change is implicitly contradicted by a last-modified date of 5 July 2017 in a document presented as current to 8 April 2026. If legislative changes occurred after July 2017, the 3-working-day commitment was not met. If no changes occurred, the assurance is vacuous in this context."}]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard commencement proclamation performing exactly its intended function: fixing a date for specified provisions to commence. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative clause with no defined terms","No cross-references to other legislation (except citation of the parent Act)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Extremely short (under 150 words of substantive content)","Standard proclamation format following long-established conventions"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **commencement proclamation** — a formal government notice that brings specific parts of a Tasmanian law into force.\n\n**What it does:**\n- The Governor of Tasmania (acting on ministerial advice) has officially declared that **sections 11, 12, 13, 25 and 26** of the *Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013* will start operating on **1 January 2014**.\n\n**Why this matters:**\n- Many laws don't take effect immediately when passed by Parliament. This proclamation is the legal trigger that \"switches on\" these particular sections.\n- Without this document, those five sections would remain inactive, even though the rest of the Act might already be in force.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone involved in land use planning in Tasmania — including developers, local councils, and property owners — who needed to know exactly when these specific amendments became legally binding.\n\n**Key point:** This is purely procedural. It doesn't create new rules itself; it simply activates rules that were already written in the 2013 Amendment Act."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The proclamation performs a straightforward commencement function consistent with its original purpose — bringing the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013 into force on 25 December 2013. There is no evidence of scope change, and the instrument has remained unchanged since it was filed (last modified 5 July 2017 relates only to the file record, not the substance)."},"complexity_factors":["Minimal substantive content — the document is purely administrative and procedural","No operative legal provisions are set out in the text itself","Requires cross-referencing the parent Amendment Act to understand real-world impact","Standard proclamation format with no unusual or novel legal mechanisms","Jurisdiction limited to Tasmania, reducing comparative complexity"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation sets 25 December 2013 as the day the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 2013 (or specified parts) came into force in Tasmania. \n\nIt matters to property developers, landowners, local councils, and planning/building professionals because from that date the Act’s changes to the planning approvals regime became legally binding."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-114","history":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-114/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-114/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-114/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-114/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2013-114/documents"}}