{"id":"tas:sr-2025-067","name":"Vehicle and Traffic (Decision-Maker Declaration) Notice 2025","slug":"vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"67 of 2025","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":174446,"registerId":"tas-sr-2025-067-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This notice may be cited as the [Vehicle and Traffic (Decision-maker Declaration) Notice 2025](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2025-067) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This notice takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the *Gazette*.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Declaration of decision-maker","content":"### 3 Declaration of decision-maker\n\n> The Australian Association of National Advertisers (ABN 54 003 179 673), also known as Ad Standards, is declared to be a decision-maker for the purposes of [section 33](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1999-070#GS33@EN) of the [Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1999-070) .\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 17 December 2025\n\nThis notice is administered in the Department of State Growth.","sortOrder":2}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The notice appears to serve its stated and narrow purpose: declaring authorised decision-makers under vehicle and traffic legislation. There is no evidence from the available text that the scope has broadened or shifted from its original administrative intent."},"complexity_factors":["Very short and narrow in scope — a single administrative declaration with limited operative content","The actual substance of the notice (who specifically is declared) is not reproduced in the provided text, limiting full analysis","Relies on understanding of the parent Vehicle and Traffic Act to appreciate its purpose, adding minor interpretive complexity","Standard delegated legislation format with no novel legal concepts"],"plain_english_summary":"This notice formally names who is authorised to make specified decisions under Tasmania’s vehicle and traffic laws, so certain licences, registrations or determinations are validly made by the correct officeholder.  \n\nIt matters to department staff, members of the public dealing with vehicle or licensing matters, and anyone seeking to challenge a decision — because actions by an undeclared person could be legally invalid."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard, narrow delegation instrument that does exactly what its title suggests — declare a decision-maker. It has not expanded beyond its original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument: only 3 operative sections","No defined terms section","No cross-references beyond a single citation to section 33 of the principal Act","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Single substantive action: a straightforward declaration of one named entity"],"plain_english_summary":"This notice officially appoints **Ad Standards** (the Australian Association of National Advertisers) as a **decision-maker** under Tasmania's Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999.\n\n**What this means:**\n- A \"decision-maker\" is a person or body given legal authority to make official decisions under a specific law\n- Ad Standards — an industry body that handles advertising complaints — now has formal power to make decisions under section 33 of the Vehicle and Traffic Act\n\n**Why this matters:**\n- This likely relates to decisions about vehicle advertising standards or traffic-related advertising complaints\n- It allows an industry self-regulation body to exercise government-delegated powers rather than leaving all decisions to government officials\n- Businesses and advertisers dealing with vehicle or traffic-related advertising may now have Ad Standards as their decision-making authority for certain matters"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This notice does not amend the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999; it only designates the Australian Association of National Advertisers (Ad Standards) as the decision‑maker referred to in s 33. The substantive powers, limits and procedures remain those in s 33 of the Act; what changes is the identity of the body exercising those decision‑making functions (s 3)."},"complexity_factors":["Single, short declaratory provision (one operative clause: s 3).","Direct cross‑reference to an external statute (Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999, s 33) — substantive effects depend on that provision.","Commencement dependent on procedural publication in the Gazette (s 2).","Identifies a specific corporate entity by name and ABN, creating a factual dependency on that entity's legal status.","Administrative ownership noted (Department of State Growth) but no procedural rules or appeal pathways set out in the notice."],"plain_english_summary":"This notice names the Australian Association of National Advertisers (Ad Standards; ABN 54 003 179 673) as a “decision‑maker” for the purposes of section 33 of the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999, so decisions that the Act assigns to a decision‑maker under s 33 will be made by Ad Standards (s 3). The notice takes effect when its making is published in the Gazette (s 2). Affected parties must accept and comply with decisions made under s 33 by the declared body; the notice does not itself change the powers or limits set out in s 33 (s 3)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025","history":"/api/acts/vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/vehicle-and-traffic-decision-maker-declaration-notice-2025/documents"}}