Governance
Who decides what
Roles and decision rights for administering legislation, the delegations the gate enforces, and the guardrails that stop agents.
Roles
| Role | Kind | Responsibilities | Decision rights |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUDITOR Internal audit | INTERNAL | Verifies the evidence chain and tests decisions against delegations. | No decisions. Unrestricted read of the chain. |
| DELEGATED_OFFICER Delegated officer | INTERNAL | Holds delegation under the complaints policy and information-access law. | Escalates a complaint to formal review; decides information-access requests. |
| EXECUTIVE Executive | INTERNAL | Releases positions for consultation; adopts operational policies; clears for the minister or council. | Release for consultation; executive clearance; adoption of executive policies. |
| GAZETTE Gazette and legislation registers | EXTERNAL | Authoritative sources of instruments and amendments. | None here. |
| LEGAL Legal | INTERNAL | Clears lawfulness and drafting against the instrument. | Legal clearance. |
| LEGISLATION_OFFICER Legislation officer | INTERNAL | Maintains the instrument register; records gazettals; reviews encoded rules. | No re-decisions, no conflict resolution. |
Delegations
| Role | Decision | Note |
|---|---|---|
| DELEGATED_OFFICER | re decision | Re-decide a matter already communicated, after an amendment changes its outcome. |
| LEGAL | legal referral | Resolve a conflict or ambiguity between provisions. |
| EXECUTIVE | delegation limit | Set or change a delegation limit under the instrument of delegation. |
Guardrails
GL-AL-01 An agent never reverses a communicated decision
When an amendment changes the outcome of a matter already communicated, the re-test surfaces it and a delegated officer re-decides with reasons.
GL-AL-02 An agent never resolves an ambiguity in the law
A conflict or ambiguity between provisions is referred to legal with the provisions and the question; nothing decides under either until it is resolved.
GL-AL-03 Every delegation enforced at the point of decision
Every decision with legal effect checks the delegation register and any limit in code, and every attempt is logged, allowed or refused.
GL-AL-04 Every encoded rule carries its source
A rule names the instrument, the provision, the version and the gazette or compilation it came from.
GL-AL-05 Amendments applied on the day, never by accident
A gazettal is detected from the register feed, recorded with its commencement date, re-tested against every open matter, and applied from commencement.
GL-AL-06 Every decision traceable to a clause
Every decision across the platform cites the provision it was made under and that provision resolves to an encoded rule.
GL-AL-07 No retrospectivity by default
An amendment applies to matters decided after its commencement unless the instrument says otherwise; earlier matters are re-decided only where it does.