{"id":"F2005B01781","name":"Tobacco Sellers Licensing Ordinance 2000 (CKI)","slug":"tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":112211,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2005B01781-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Tobacco Sellers Licensing Ordinance 2000 (CKI)","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nTerritory of Cocos (Keeling) islands\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 Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.\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) (CKI) 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) (CKI) as a law of the Territory\n\nThe Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (WA) (CKI), 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":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation performs exactly its stated purpose: adopting the WA Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act for the Territory. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond this single adoptive function."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short - only 3 operative sections","No defined terms in the Ordinance itself (relies entirely on adopted WA legislation)","Single mechanical operation: adoption of existing WA law as at a fixed date","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements within the Ordinance text","Cross-reference to external legislation (Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955) and adopted WA Act, but no internal cross-referencing structure"],"plain_english_summary":"This law brings Western Australia's tobacco seller licensing rules to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It essentially copies the 'Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975' from Western Australia and makes it apply in the Territory from 1 July 2000. This means anyone selling tobacco in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands needs a licence, just like in Western Australia. The law was made by the Governor-General under powers given by the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This Ordinance changes the territorial application of the Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (WA) by making that Act (as it stood on 30 June 2000) law in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands from 1 July 2000 (section 3). It does not alter the substantive content of the WA Act; it incorporates that content into Territory law but freezes the adopted text at the stated date, so later WA amendments are excluded unless separately adopted (section 3)."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-referencing an external statute (Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975 (WA)) — details of obligations are located in that external text rather than in the Ordinance (section 3).","Temporal freeze: adoption is expressly limited to the WA Act as in force on a specific date (30 June 2000), requiring users to consult that historical version (section 3).","Implementation dependency: effective operation requires local administrative capacity in the Territory to apply and enforce the adopted Act (implementation inference from section 3 and the enabling preamble).","Potential interaction with other Territory laws or local conditions — the Ordinance does not alter the adopted Act’s content, so reconciliation may be required in practice (implicit in adoption mechanism).","Legal authority linkage: the Ordinance is made under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955, so its validity and scope rest on that enabling power (preamble)."],"plain_english_summary":"This Ordinance applies the Western Australian Tobacco Sellers Licensing Act 1975, as it stood on 30 June 2000, to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands from 1 July 2000. Tobacco sellers in the Territory become subject to the WA Act’s licensing, compliance and penalty regime; the Ordinance imports those details by reference and freezes them at that 2000 version (it does not set fees or amend the adopted law)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki","history":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tobacco-sellers-licensing-ordinance-2000-cki/documents"}}