This Act sets the rules Tasmanian courts must use to decide what evidence is admissible in civil and criminal proceedings, defines key terms, and creates procedures for notices, privilege, competence/compellability, expert/analyst certificates, and special rules on tendency/ coincidence and credibility. It affects parties, witnesses, lawyers, prosecutors,...

The Limitation Act 1974 fixes time limits for bringing civil and arbitration claims, sets when those clocks start or are paused (discoverability, fraud, disability, acknowledgement), and creates narrow exceptions for things like child abuse and certain recovery claims. It matters because it gives defendants and property holders finality while forcing...

These Rules set the step‑by‑step procedure for civil cases in the Supreme Court: how proceedings start, service (including overseas/Hague Convention procedures), pleadings, discovery, case management, injunctions/receivers, enforcement, costs, fees and registry duties (see rr3, 147–153, 415, 970F–970P). They affect litigants, practitioners, registrars and...

Creates a single statutory framework for transferring and charging land: it sets what must be written, what implied covenants accompany conveyances, limits a purchaser’s right to demand old title documents, prescribes statutory forms and fees, and expands mortgagee powers (leasing, sale, capitalising interest). It gives the Supreme Court power to receive...

This Act consolidates and standardises civil procedure for the Supreme Court of Tasmania, establishing the Rules of Court that govern commencement, hearing, appeals, transfers between registries and inferior courts, costs, equitable remedies, and administration of court funds. It affects litigants, judges, registrars, the Attorney‑General and public...

This Act provides a statutory route for non‑profit associations to incorporate, giving them legal personality, perpetual succession, capacity to hold property and limited member liability. It limits bodies formed to generate member profit and restricts public fundraising, while imposing ongoing compliance — accounts, audits (unless exempt), annual returns,...

The Act sets rules for how and where police may detain and question people, what safeguards and recordkeeping must apply in custody, and how custody is managed and transferred. It gives police and custody officers operational powers and duties, and requires magistrate oversight for certain limits on detainee communications. It affects detained persons,...

The Act codifies Tasmania’s civil defamation law: it modernises publication rules (no slander/libel split), requires pre‑action “concerns notices” and offers to make amends, sets a one‑year limitation with extensions, caps non‑economic damages, and assigns judges key early gatekeeping roles. It also creates tailored defences and limited exemptions plus...

This instrument sets out preliminary definitions and repeals listed earlier Acts, and it establishes how clerks of petty sessions are appointed, supervised and what they may do. The Magistrates Court Administrator is the Chief Clerk by office; clerks can receive complaints, issue summonses and execute convictions; deputies and magistrates may fill clerk...

The Local Government Act 1993 sets up and governs Tasmania’s municipal councils, giving elected councils the powers to provide local services, make rules, raise revenue and manage land and infrastructure. It also regulates elections, decision‑making, finances and conduct, and creates oversight and ministerial intervention powers to ensure accountability. It...

This Act creates and governs the Tasmanian Industrial Commission, sets detailed definitions and procedures for making binding awards and industrial agreements, and establishes minimum employment conditions (hours, wages, leave) and dispute resolution and appeal routes. It applies to private and State employers, employees, and registered organisations, and...

Sets out Tasmania’s sentencing framework: which orders courts may make (imprisonment, suspended terms, home detention, community correction and service orders, drug treatment and rehabilitation orders, fines, restitution), rules for recording convictions, and detailed procedures for deferral, variation, breach, activation/cancellation of orders, and...

The Act gives trustees broad powers to invest, manage, sell and insure trust property, appoint agents or substitute trustees, and use trust funds to pay for advice or certain expenses. It imposes a statutory standard of care and annual review duty, limits trustee liability in specified situations, and vests wide remedial and appointment powers in the Court....

This Act sets out public‑order offences and police powers: who may be arrested or searched, what items are banned or require permits (crossbows, body armour, laser pointers, some gang insignia), crime‑scene powers, vehicle clamping/forfeiture and infringement procedures. It affects anyone in public places, vehicle owners and applicants for permits. Police...

This Act creates a nationally consistent system of work health and safety duties for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs), officers, designers, manufacturers, suppliers, workers and others, requiring hazards be eliminated or minimised so far as "reasonably practicable" (ss3,17–19). It sets out notification and site‑preservation duties, a...

Mechanically, the Act creates a detailed licensing and oversight regime for gambling in Tasmania: it defines licence types, approval and listing processes for machines, equipment and suppliers, rules for conduct and monitoring, offences and penalties, financial reporting and audit obligations, license fees and a point‑of‑consumption tax. It applies to...

The Traffic Act 1925 sets who can make and enforce road rules, creates criminal and administrative penalties, and grants police and authorised officers powers to direct, seize or remove vehicles and signs. It also regulates traffic control devices and tightly limits illuminated/animated electronic billboards. It affects drivers, registered operators,...

This Act sets rules for allocating financial responsibility when more than one person may be liable for “damage” (broadly defined) and where a claimant contributed to their loss. It lets defendants who pay seek contribution from other liable persons, limits total recovery across multiple suits to the amount of the first judgment, and lets courts reduce...

This law lets the Court require a deceased person’s estate to make financial provision for people left without adequate maintenance, by awarding lump sums, life or dwelling interests, or funding a dwelling purchase. It affects applicants (spouses, children, some parents and former partners), executors/administrators (service, disclosure, trustee duties) and...

The Adoption Act 1988 creates Tasmania’s legal framework for arranging, approving and making adoptions: who may adopt or be adopted, consent and counselling rules, court and Secretary powers, approved agencies’ duties, and record‑keeping. It protects confidentiality via an Adoption Information Register, sets recognition rules for overseas adoptions, and...

Mechanically, the Act lets the DPP or authorised officers, after conviction for a serious offence, restrain and seize “tainted” assets, seek forfeiture or a pecuniary penalty matching benefits, and obtain unexplained‑wealth declarations that can trigger forfeiture. Seized property vests in the State; notice, third‑party claim and valuation rules apply. It...

The Legal Profession Act 2007 sets who may practise law in Tasmania, how lawyers and firms must operate, and how misconduct is handled. It governs admission, practising rights, trust account and conduct standards, new firm structures, and complaint and discipline processes. It affects lawyers, firms, clients and the public by protecting consumers,...

The Act imports Commonwealth corporations and ASIC law into Tasmanian law, creating a national‑scheme framework so Commonwealth regulators (eg ASIC, panels) can exercise functions, investigate and prosecute in Tasmania and fines are remitted to the Commonwealth. It gives Tasmanian courts jurisdiction but permits cross‑vesting and transfers, and lets the...

The law centralises legal control of Crown land with the Minister (and delegated officials), creating a regime to reserve land as public reserves, prepare and enforce management plans, and to sell, lease or licence Crown land under detailed procedural and commercial rules. It preserves statutory rights (notably minerals), creates enforcement tools and a...

The Act defines and criminalises family violence and establishes civil protection orders and enforcement tools, expanding police powers for warrantless intervention and giving courts broad powers to impose protective and rehabilitative conditions. It directly affects affected persons and children, suspected perpetrators, police, courts, landlords and...

The law continues the Forestry corporation as the Forest Manager of designated "permanent timber production zone" (PTPZ) land, creates a Parliamentary‑overseen process to add/remove PTPZ land, and imposes a statutory minimum annual timber supply to veneer and sawmilling industries. It also creates a compensation scheme for multi‑year contract holders when...

This Act establishes the Forest Practices Authority to approve, oversee and enforce certified forest practices plans authorising harvesting, clearing and related works on listed land (s4AA, s19, s20). It creates offences and penalties for non‑compliance, recurring reporting duties for the responsible person and procedural rights of appeal to the Tribunal...

This Act creates a management framework for Tasmania’s reserved lands (national parks, reserves, private sanctuaries), defining who runs them, how management plans are made and enforced, and how commercial uses are authorised. It centralises decision making with a Director, the Minister and the Governor, requires plan driven permissions for activities, and...