{"id":"tas:sr-2025-005","name":"Proclamation under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935","slug":"tas-sr-2025-005","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"5 of 2025","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":313775,"registerId":"tas-tas:sr-2025-005-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE 1 - Place of access","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE 1 - Place of access","content":"# SCHEDULE 1 - Place of access SCHEDULE 1 - Place of access\n\n| Description | Distance in kilometres from Burnett Street |\n| Access Road – south-west side (Ambulance Tasmania premises intended for use by ambulances within the meaning of the Ambulance Service Act 1982) | 5.52 |\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 3 February 2025\n\nThis proclamation is administered in the Department of State Growth.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This proclamation serves exactly its original intended purpose under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935: to formally declare specific places of access. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical function."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short document (under 150 words total)","Zero defined terms within the document itself (relies on external statute for 'ambulance' definition)","No conditional logic or exceptions","Single purpose: one location, one distance, one user","No cross-references within the text (only citation to parent Act and publication rules)","Tabular format makes information immediately scannable"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a very specific, technical legal document that officially declares a particular location as an 'access road' under Tasmanian law.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Designates a 5.52 kilometre stretch of road on the south-west side of Burnett Street as an official access road\n- Specifically identifies this as being for **Ambulance Tasmania** premises\n- Restricts use to ambulances (as defined by the Ambulance Service Act 1982)\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- **Ambulance Tasmania** – gives their vehicles legal right to use this specific road\n- **Other road users** – likely restricts general public access or creates specific traffic rules for this stretch\n- **Local government and planners** – establishes the legal status of this road for planning and maintenance purposes\n\n**Why it matters:**\nUnder the Roads and Jetties Act 1935, roads need to be formally 'proclaimed' (officially declared) to have certain legal statuses. This proclamation ensures ambulances have guaranteed legal access to their premises, which matters for:\n- Emergency response times\n- Property rights and access easements\n- Traffic management and enforcement\n- Insurance and liability coverage\n\nThis is essentially a bureaucratic 'dotting the i's and crossing the t's' document that gives Ambulance Tasmania's emergency vehicles a clear legal right to use this specific stretch of road."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available metadata, this appears to be a straightforward exercise of the Governor's proclamation power under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935, consistent with the Act's original purpose of managing Tasmanian public roads and jetties. There is no indication of scope creep or departure from the enabling Act's intent."},"complexity_factors":["Very short and narrow instrument — proclamations are typically a single operative declaration","Operates under a parent Act (Roads and Jetties Act 1935), so interpretation requires cross-referencing that Act","The actual operative content of the proclamation is not reproduced in the provided text, limiting full analysis","Administrative/machinery-in-nature rather than substantive policy change","Limited scope — affects specific, geographically defined infrastructure rather than broad populations"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a Tasmanian government proclamation made under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 that formally declares, alters, or revokes the legal status of a specific road or jetty. Such proclamations shift management and control between state and local authorities.\n\nIt affects nearby landowners, residents, businesses, local councils and users by potentially changing maintenance responsibility, access and property rights. The operative details aren’t included here. Current as at 3 February 2025."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The document solely designates a place of access and records administrative responsibility; nothing in the text indicates an expansion or contraction of the statute's substantive scope or new powers or obligations beyond formally recognising that access location."},"complexity_factors":["Single, narrowly defined action: designation of one access point (low breadth)","Precise metric specification (distance 5.52 km) reduces ambiguity","Cross-references to other statutes (Roads and Jetties Act 1935; Ambulance Service Act 1982; Rules Publication Act 1953) add legal linkage","Administrative ownership stated (Department of State Growth) concentrates discretion","No operative regulatory scheme, penalties, or fee provisions in the text (low compliance burden)","Formal publication step noted (Gazette notification) — procedural requirement"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation legally designates a specific place of road access under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935: an access road on the south‑west side located 5.52 km from Burnett Street for Ambulance Tasmania premises (for ambulance use as defined in the Ambulance Service Act 1982). It was gazetted 3 February 2025 and is administered by the Department of State Growth.\n\nMechanically, it records and fixes the site's legal status; the text contains no explicit funding or enforcement rules, so implementation decisions rest with the administering department."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Currency of version / Status Information","severity":"medium","reasoning":"If legislation on the site is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change', but the file was last modified 14 February 2025 and the version is described as current to 8 April 2026, there is either an implicit representation that no amendments occurred in over 14 months, or the currency claim is unverifiable and potentially misleading. The document cannot simultaneously guarantee currency to a future access date and rely on a static file last modified in February 2025.","confidence":0.72,"description":"The document states it is 'Version current from 3 February 2025 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:17)' but the file was last modified 14 February 2025. The access date of 8 April 2026 is over a year beyond the last modification date, yet the document purports to reflect current law 'to date', raising questions about whether it genuinely reflects any amendments made in the intervening period."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Status Information – Currency of version","severity":"low","reasoning":"Asserting a version is 'current to date' while simultaneously qualifying the update mechanism with 'usually' is internally inconsistent. A document cannot be definitively current if the process ensuring its currency is only usually timely. This is a low-severity drafting absurdity but it does logically undercut the currency assurance.","confidence":0.8,"description":"The statement that legislation is 'usually updated within 3 working days after a change' is a qualified promise that undermines the reliability of the 'version current to date' representation. The word 'usually' creates a logical gap: the document may not in fact be current despite asserting currency."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Entire document – Substantive content","severity":"high","reasoning":"A Proclamation is a specific class of subordinate legislative instrument that must contain operative provisions to have legal effect. A proclamation with no operative content cannot fulfil its statutory purpose under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 and arguably cannot be 'legislation' at all in any meaningful sense. Persons or authorities attempting to identify what road, jetty, or area the instrument relates to would find compliance or reliance on it literally impossible.","confidence":0.91,"description":"The document, titled 'Proclamation under the Roads and Jetties Act 1935', contains no substantive proclamation text whatsoever — no road is named, gazetted, altered, or otherwise proclaimed. The instrument appears to be entirely metadata and formatting artefacts with no operative legal provisions."},{"type":"other","section":"Document structure – Repeated headings","severity":"low","reasoning":"In strict statutory interpretation, repeated headings could theoretically be read as separate provisions. While courts would almost certainly treat this as a formatting error, the duplication in an officially published version of subordinate legislation is an absurdity in the published legal record. It also undermines confidence in the document's authoritative status.","confidence":0.65,"description":"Every heading in the document is duplicated verbatim (e.g., 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'). While likely a rendering artefact, as published this creates an absurdity whereby the official consolidated legislation repeats every structural element, potentially creating ambiguity about whether each repeated section constitutes a distinct provision."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Responsible Minister and Department","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Subordinate legislation should be self-contained enough to identify the minister or authority responsible for its administration. Externalising this information entirely means the instrument's responsible authority could change without any amendment to the instrument itself, creating a moving target for accountability. This is particularly problematic for a proclamation, which is an executive act that should be traceable to a specific minister.","confidence":0.75,"description":"The responsible minister is not identified in the document itself; readers are redirected externally to 'the latest Administrative Arrangement Order' or 'Information Guides to Legislation'. This means the document, as a standalone instrument, cannot identify its own responsible authority — a fundamental requirement for accountability in subordinate legislation."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Currency of version – 'Version current from 3 February 2025 to date (accessed 8 April 2026 at 1:17)'","section_b":"Authorisation – 'File last modified 14 February 2025'","confidence":0.78,"description":"The document asserts it is current to an access date of 8 April 2026, but the underlying file has not been modified since 14 February 2025. These two statements are in direct tension: a file unmodified since February 2025 cannot reliably assert currency over 14 months later unless it is affirmatively established that no amendments were made in that period — which the document does not do."},{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information – 'Legislation on this site is usually updated within 3 working days after a change'","section_b":"Currency of version – 'Version current from 3 February 2025 to date'","confidence":0.82,"description":"The 'usually updated within 3 working days' qualification contradicts the unqualified assertion of currency. If updates are only 'usually' timely, the version cannot be asserted as definitively 'current to date' without qualification. The two statements pull in opposite directions regarding the reliability of the document's currency."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2025-005","history":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2025-005/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2025-005/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2025-005/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2025-005/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tas-sr-2025-005/documents"}}