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"Everything that is not forbidden is allowed" - Does it apply in Aus?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 1769" data-source="post: 168917" data-attributes="member: 1769"><p>I don't think the council examples are all that relevant, as you'll find that State legislation in every case gives the councils the power to make any by-laws they want, which apply to land they control.</p><p></p><p>An analogy that I think is relevant: a substance (drug, etc) is not illegal unless it has explicitly been made illegal. If you are consuming a substance for which there are no regulations against, you're not breaking the law, are you? This seems to indicate to me (I'm not a lawyer) that unless something has explicitly been made illegal by virtue of legislation, or regulation (in cases when legislation grants bodies the power to regulate activities), you are not committing a crime by doing it.</p><p></p><p>The law does not have to clarify what it is that we're allowed to do, only what we aren't, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 1769, post: 168917, member: 1769"] I don't think the council examples are all that relevant, as you'll find that State legislation in every case gives the councils the power to make any by-laws they want, which apply to land they control. An analogy that I think is relevant: a substance (drug, etc) is not illegal unless it has explicitly been made illegal. If you are consuming a substance for which there are no regulations against, you're not breaking the law, are you? This seems to indicate to me (I'm not a lawyer) that unless something has explicitly been made illegal by virtue of legislation, or regulation (in cases when legislation grants bodies the power to regulate activities), you are not committing a crime by doing it. The law does not have to clarify what it is that we're allowed to do, only what we aren't, right? [/QUOTE]
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