Family B · Governing and deciding
Administering legislation
Legislative instruments turned into executable rules, applied consistently to every decision, with the provision behind each outcome on the record. At local level, the same for local laws.
Administering legislation (MG-12) is one of the twenty-one MeshGov services, in the "Governing and deciding" family. Legislative instruments turned into executable rules, applied consistently to every decision, with the provision behind each outcome on the record. At local level, the same for local laws. It replaces manual delegation registers and policy interpretation by email. AI agents carry the work end to end; a named officer takes every decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
What it replaces
- Manual delegation registers
- Policy interpretation by email
What it reacts to
- Instrument gazetted or amended
- Decision made under a provision
- Decision attempted beyond delegation
- Conflict between provisions detected
The agents that carry it
Encoding agent
Turns provisions into executable rules and detects gazettal on the day it happens.
Re-test agent
Re-assesses every open matter against an amended provision and surfaces the ones whose outcome changes.
Delegations agent
Enforces every delegation limit at the point of decision and re-routes any attempt beyond it.
Where a person decides
No decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money is taken by an agent alone. In Administering legislation, these decisions are held for a named officer, with the agent's evidence and recommendation attached.
| Decision | Who decides | Why a person |
|---|---|---|
| Re-decision of a matter already communicated | Delegated officer | An agent never reverses a communicated decision |
| Resolution of a conflict between provisions | Legal | An agent never resolves an ambiguity in the law |
Records it writes
Encoded provision with source · Re-test result per matter · Delegation enforcement log · Legal referral
Before MeshGov: the baseline this service is measured against
Delegations enforced
by memory
against a spreadsheet register
Amendment lag
60 days
until applied to decisions
Decisions traceable to a clause
unknown
not recorded
Open matters re-tested
none
when an instrument changes
Levels of government: core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
Questions buyers ask about Administering legislation
- What does MeshGov Administering legislation do?
- Legislative instruments turned into executable rules, applied consistently to every decision, with the provision behind each outcome on the record. At local level, the same for local laws. It reacts to events such as instrument gazetted or amended, decision made under a provision and decision attempted beyond delegation, and writes encoded provision with source, re-test result per matter, delegation enforcement log and legal referral as records.
- What systems does Administering legislation replace?
- Manual delegation registers and Policy interpretation by email. Because the service runs on the MeshGov platform, the licence, integration and upgrade costs of those systems retire with them.
- What do the AI agents do in Administering legislation?
- The encoding agent turns provisions into executable rules and detects gazettal on the day it happens. The re-test agent re-assesses every open matter against an amended provision and surfaces the ones whose outcome changes. The delegations agent enforces every delegation limit at the point of decision and re-routes any attempt beyond it.
- Which decisions does a person still take?
- Agents never take a decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. In Administering legislation, a person decides re-decision of a matter already communicated (delegated officer) and resolution of a conflict between provisions (legal). The record shows who decided, why, on what evidence and under which delegation.
- Which levels of government use Administering legislation?
- It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level. MeshGov was checked against the Australian Government Architecture, the AGA Business Reference Model, the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture and the UK Local Government Business Model, and serves government in any country.