{"id":"F2005B01641","name":"Tobacco Sellers Licensing Ordinance 2000 (CI)","slug":"tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":112062,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2005B01641-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Tobacco Sellers Licensing Ordinance 2000 (CI)","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nTerritory of Christmas Island\n\nTobacco Sellers Licensing Ordinance 2000\n\nNo. 2 of 20001\n\nI, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor\\-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance under the Christmas Island Act 1958.\n\nDated 29 August 2000\n\nWILLIAM DEANE\n\nGovernor-General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nIAN MACDONALD\n\nMinister for Regional Services, Territories and\n\nLocal Government\n\nAn Ordinance to adopt the Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (WA) (CI) as a law of the Territory\n\n1 Name of Ordinance\n\nThis Ordinance is the Tobacco Sellers Licensing Ordinance 2000.\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Ordinance commences on gazettal.\n\n3 Adoption of Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (WA) (CI) as a law of the Territory\n\nThe Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (WA) (CI), as in force on 30 June 2000, is adopted as a law of the Territory from 1 July 2000.\n\n> Note\n\n> Note: 1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 September 2000.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation performs exactly what its title and preamble state: adopting Western Australian tobacco licensing law for Christmas Island. There is no scope creep—the ordinance is purely a vehicle for importing external legislation."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short—only 3 operative sections","No defined terms in the ordinance itself (relies entirely on adopted Western Australian legislation)","No conditional logic or exceptions within the ordinance text","Single mechanical operation: adoption by reference of another statute","No cross-references within the ordinance (only reference is to the Christmas Island Act 1958 in the authority clause)"],"plain_english_summary":"This law brings Western Australia's tobacco seller licensing rules to Christmas Island. It essentially copies the Western Australian Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (as it stood on 30 June 2000) and makes it apply to Christmas Island from 1 July 2000. This means anyone selling tobacco on Christmas Island needs a licence, just like in Western Australia. The law doesn't create new rules—it just imports existing Western Australian rules to the territory."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Ordinance does not alter the substantive content of the WA Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975. It adopts that Act 'as in force on 30 June 2000' and applies it in the Territory from 1 July 2000 (s 3). Therefore the Ordinance’s effect is to import existing WA law into Territory law rather than to change the WA Act’s scope."},"complexity_factors":["Simple structure: the instrument contains three short provisions (name, commencement, adoption) which makes the text itself straightforward.","Reliance on an external statute: substantive rules are not in this instrument but in the WA Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975, so understanding effects requires consulting that separate Act (s 3).","Frozen adoption date increases interpretive complexity: the Ordinance adopts the WA Act only as in force on 30 June 2000, so later amendments do not apply automatically (s 3).","Commencement mechanics: the Ordinance adopts a law effective from 1 July 2000 but only comes into effect on gazettal, creating a temporal sequencing point to verify (s 2 and s 3).","Administrative and enforcement gap: the Ordinance does not specify local administrative arrangements, so practical application depends on implementation steps outside the text (s 3)."],"plain_english_summary":"The Ordinance adopts the Western Australian Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act as it stood on 30 June 2000 and applies that law in Christmas Island from 1 July 2000, with the Ordinance itself commencing on gazettal. It brings local tobacco sellers under the WA licensing, fee and penalty regime but freezes the adopted text (so later WA amendments do not apply) and does not itself set out local administrative arrangements."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci","history":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-ci/documents"}}