Statutory Interpretation Assignment

STATUTORY
INTERPRETATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1: STATUTORY INTERPRETATION..............................................................................1
1. Using the structured approach provide the law, analysis and conclusion of how the Act may
apply to Delia..............................................................................................................................1
PART 2: OVERSIGHT AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA ........................................................7
2. Discuss the two newspaper articles above in how the media play a role within the
Australian legal system, and its institutions and how governments might use the media..........7
PART 3: PARLIAMENTARY PROCESSES ................................................................................8
3. Describe how the amendment will be progressed and note any comments you think are
relevant on its progression and relating to the international agreement......................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Statutory interpretation is defined as the process in which court need to interpret and
apply the law. It is generally the principles which is developed by the court for the process of
interpreting the statutes. It is one of the most important topic for the field of law students as they
are required to interpret the laws and regulation. In this file case studies will be solved where
major focus will be on the act like Academic Trust and Integrity Protection Act 2019. There are
altogether three questions that are required to be addressed. In first, discussion will be on
structured approach will be provided on the law in which major focus will be on s 4(3) and its
penalties. In second question, focus will be on the newspaper article by saying that what are the
major role within Australian legal system. And it the last segment, discussion is related with the
progress in area of amendments.

PART 1: STATUTORY INTERPRETATION
1. Using the structured approach provide the law, analysis and conclusion of how the Act may
apply to Delia.
Case Study: Delia Delahunt is a one of the student of law who is studying in third year in
one of the Australian university which is located in Queensland. She has enrolled herself into
four course, out of all three assignments are due in it. Delia’s active social life and her part-time
employment with a law firm doesn't allow her to complete assignment which has been assigned
by the university. One of the fellow law student, Albertine Albertson suggested that she can
contact EziDegreez for the purpose of completing her assignments.
‘The rates are also quite reasonable…’ for completing the assignments.
On 1 March 2019, Delia tried to search different things related to assessment assistance
and finally she comes across EziDegreez. The website, www.ezidegreez.com, tells that how
time is required to be managed in order to complete the assignments, including an item that
states: ‘But if you are unable to complete the assignment on time that's where company helps by
providing you with assignment completion services.’ The website has the option to pay the
money accomplishing the assignments on specific time period. But, on 3 March 2019, Delia
decides not to avail the services which is being provided by Ezidegreez.
On 10 March, Delia was more worried about the assignment as deadline was coming near
and because of that Delia again went to see the online site which does the assignment on specific
time period. This time Delia decided to give two of her assignment to Ezidegreez for completing
on time and even she makes the payment of it. After giving the assignment she receives in back
after a week. However, after a seminar on academic misconduct of law students, Delia has
second thoughts and decides to complete the assignments herself.
Academic Trust and Integrity Protection Act 2019
This is one of the law which has been commenced just to maintain the framework for
learning and teaching on activities which is related for completing the assignment of universities.
The main purpose of this law is to enhance the knowledge of student as they will not be allowed
to complete there assignment by taking the help of different online service provider of
assignment. This law will try to prohibit academic plagiarism including number of online
academic offensive activities. In context of the nation, it will provide better opportunity as
people will get the chance to explore there knowledge in different field. After the

commencement of this law it has been found that result of students have changed as they are able
to judge the situation which arises in front of them. Various sections have been defined in it
which says about the penalties that can be imposed on the students who have tried to copy the
assignment from any of the area.
Prohibitions of advertising or providing online academic criminal activity services.
It can be understood that academic trust and integrity protect act 2019 is helpful where it
doesn't allow any of the person do deliver any of the additional advantage to the students who are
pursuing the higher education from the universities. In this services do include
 any of the assignment or work which student is required to accomplish on specific time
period as given by the universities (Alex Steel, 2017).
 Arranging any of the provision of an assignment which is required to be completed by the
student as a part of university work.
 Trying to arrange any of the provision of answer for exams.
 Trying to arrange any of the person who can sit and give the exam of any of the
university program.
Academic Trust and Integrity Protection Act 2019 says that if any of the person found
guilty in it then maximum penalty it will be $110000 or even imprisonment of 15 year can also
be given.
Prohibition of entering in online academic criminal activity
Any of the student who tries to breaches section 4(2), then there is the heave penalty as
their academic qualification will be forfeited. Even subsection (1) also says that health issues,
family issues or any other activities will be included in the activity of criminal offence. But, if
any of the person who says clearly figure out the issues and trustfully declare about the online
academic writing will be exempted from it.
Register of Academic Trust and Integrity
This will be registered under the Academic Trust and Integrity Act. This act says that any
of the person should mention in the register of Academic Trust and Integrity about all the
research and engagement in any of the online writing will be counted as criminal activity and
even they must mention about all the search of online sites about the academic writing in detail.

If any of the person fails to declare about about the engagement then legal action will be taken
and they will be penalised by $10000.
Clause 4 Prohibition of advertising or providing online academic criminal activity services
In clause 4, it has been mention that no one is allowed to do advertisement of any of the
online academic services. Under this clause, any of the services which are related to the
academic writing found to be delivered by the third party then strict action will be taken against
them as it is not allowed or even its illegal (Abdul Hamied and Emilia, 2016). If any of the
website provide any of the online academic writing services will be deemed to have entered into
the criminal activities and it will be counted as criminal offence. The main purpose of this clause
is to describe about the multiple purpose that can occur in online academic writing. As it is one
of the criminal activity and that is the main reason that people who will involve in the criminal
activity will legally penalised as per the appropriate condition and situation.
Clause 5 Prohibition of engaging or entering online academic criminal activities
In this clause, it has been clearly written that any of the student must not take any of the
the unfair advantage from the marketplace. Here, clause checks that whether student pay for the
services or not. The clause expressly prevents any defence to justify engaging in the online
academic criminal activity. The clause clearly provides that the offence is committed at the time
of provision of the services, not when any assessment that is the product of the interaction, is
submitted.
Clause 6 Register of Academic Trust and Integrity
This bill's main purpose is to record the detail about any of those students who have
engaged in any form of online academic writing, whether or not do they submit or claimed credit
on work which is being carried out by any of the service provider.
This clause is helpful in content of any of the organisation as student will be at risk
because they can be threat, blackmail or even influenced by the operator as that particular student
have involve themselves under online academic criminal activity websites. Also, register will
help to maintain the detail records as any of the student who have submitted there assignment as
academic writing then university plagiarism software will help to know about the record of
student as it will be generated automatically (Martinez Lirola and Irwin, 2016). It is mainly

helpful for any of the employer as they will get the detail knowledge about the student that what
kind of character does employee's have.
All the information will have backup that will not be known by any of the student but all
of those academic writing will be stored. It is necessary to store data because HR will be
benefited from it in many of the organisation. The national register will helps employer to know
about the current and future employee's who have been engaged in online academic writing. In
this manner companies will be allowed to improve the condition of company and even they can
be aware about any of the hidden threats.
Clause 7 Indemnity
In this, it has been mentioned that if any of student discloses about the online academic
criminal activity by the help of online website then that particular person will be indemnity from
the offence under the law. It will be understood that person have shown the good character by
declaring about the past information which is related to the academic writing. It is said that if any
of the person discloses about the past that where they have involved themselves in past will be
less threats to organisation.
Main motive of the law
Here, many of the law is being commenced every year but it is necessary to understand
that what is the main benefit of it. Academic Trust and Integrity Protection Act 2019, was
commenced so that student who do not do their work by themselves must try to focus that how
they need to work. After the commencement of the law it has been found that non of the students
are allowed to take any of the additional advantage from the marketplace. It will be helpful for
the betterment of student future and even whole of the country will be benefited because
knowledge will be enhanced through which better results can be achieved in future.
If this act can be helpful then there will be high chances that students will not be allowed
to cheat with any of the member of universities. After the enforcement students have tried their
best to bring best out of them. It is necessary that how they involve themselves in future for the
purpose of achieving better result. Also, this law will increase the fear among the students that
there life can be in danger if they take any of the help from any of the online source because
records and data are stored in secret place that can be collected by any of the university or
companies for the purpose of selecting the best employee's. In this modern era, it is important to
know that how much important role does education play and it can be understood through

Academic Trust and Integrity Protection Act 2019 because it will not allow any of the person to
work unethically for there personal benefits.
It is necessary that knowledge about this law must be given to each and every students
who are pursuing higher level of education. It is important to make aware about every single
thing so that student will never depend upon any of the online academic offence. If this still
continues that what are those actions that can be taken against the student because there single
mistake can be harmful for them for the rest of life (Aunurrahman, Hamied and Emilia, 2016).
Overall, commencement of Academic Trust and Integrity Protection Act 2019 will be helpful for
both universities and students.
Applying the law in case of Delia and law university
Firstly, Delia is not allowed to complete her assignment from any of the online academic
writing site as it is against the law. It is her responsibility that how she manages the given work
on specific time period. Although his friend have advised her that what is required to be done but
it is more important for her follow the instruction of law and acts that that will prevails from the
initial stage. Here, in this case section 4(3) will be applied under which it has been mentioned
that students are not allowed complete there assignment with any of the other source. If any of
the student is found guilty under this section then there is high possibility that legal action will be
taken upon the that particular student. Even as per the law it is the responsibility of Delia to be be
aware about all of the situation that it is unethical and even illegal to complete the task by the
method of online academic writing (McNamara and et. al., 2018). There are number of penalties
that can be imposed under section 4, if any of the person breaches it. Some of the penalties that
can be imposed are
 Student can be expelled from the premisses of university.
 Legal charges can be imposed in which monetary fine can also be charged on the student. Even they might be liable for the imprisonment up to 15 years.
Analysing
As per the case scenario, it can be easily understood that situation was worst and that was
the main reason that Delia finally decided to take the help of online academic writing. But, that
was her problem because she is the one who need to manage the time for completing any of the
assignment which had been assigned to her. As she do job also so it is necessary that how she
manages her time. It can be seen that she had done the payment for two of her assignment so in

this case she had attempted the crime in first part. In second part, it has been found that she had
received the assignment on given period of time and after that she went to submit it in the
university. When she reached to the university she came to know about the Academic Trust and
Integrity Protection Act 2019 and decided that she should redo the assignment else there is high
possibility that various charges can be imposed upon her (Babcock and Thonus, 2018). By
looking at the situation, Delia had changed her mind set to do again the whole task. By looking
at the situation, it can be said that none of the charges will be imposed on Delia because she
changed her mind set that assignment should be done again and this time she need to put her own
efforts.
Conclusion
In this question, it can be concluded that none of the student should involve in such
activities that can directly effect there own future. It is illegal to use any of the content where
help had been taken from any of the online academic writing. In reality, this law is helps in
context of students because they will have the knowledge about every single things which will
help them enjoy there life happily. The more important is that student will also focus towards
their lecture because without attaining the lecture it is not possible to complete the given
assignment. Also, it will not allow any of the online networking site to do any kind of those
activity through which life of a student will be placed in worst situation. It will definitely change
the life of all the students who tries to do there work by the process of online academic writing.
There is high chances that in upcoming days more better result will be obtained.
In addition, still some of the changes can be done the act were clause 7 should be the
major one which need to be changed because it is more important that students should be treated
equally. As in some of the cases indemnity can be given but it is important that none of the
students should be given this advantage because some of the brilliant students are affected from
it.
PART 2: OVERSIGHT AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
2. Discuss the two newspaper articles above in how the media play a role within the Australian
legal system, and its institutions and how governments might use the media.
In any of the sector, it has been found that role of media sector is most important because
they try to inspect the facts and data through which actual result can be changed. They try to

present the actual condition that is affecting the nation or any of the specific department. In
context of the case, it has been found that various articles have been collected by the the
department of media.
Article 1: 17th October, 2018 “The National Express”
Government officials and politicians forced to resign over cheating scandal
There are around 25 million people within 30 different countries who are doing cheating
through the sources of internet. In present scenario, Truth Team one of the group university have
taken the major responsibility for the purpose of hacking multiple high profiles website which is
involved in the work of online academic criminal activities. They have the data through which
they can clearly show the data that who are involved in it since last eight years.
It has been found that number of high profiles who are in the involved in the field of
public sector have given resign from there respective post which includes member of
government, senior lawyers and many more (Hyland and Jiang, 2017). The main reason behind
the resignation from their post is there higher level of qualification which do not exist in practical
life because in reality there were undergraduate. Investigation continues in most of the matter but
injunctions are not willing to disclose the report in present scenario.
Article 2: 14th February 2019, The National Express
Top Melbourne Barrister Madeline Montgomery named in cheating scandal
High profile Melbourne barrister, Madeline Montgomery has resigned from her post as she was
the one who are engaged in the field of online academic criminal activity website, EziDegreez. It
was found that number of students were present who were involved in the field of online
academic writing.
The spokesperson from the board revealed that there are around 10000 students from
Australia who is engaged in unethical work and process of investigation is being carried on as
data of EziDegreez has been hacked by the group of student from vigilante group. Even they also
said that there are number of people who have been engaged in this work holds one of the best
position in the company and even some of them are in government job too. The Truth Team
believes that they will take the strong action against the person due to whom this kind of activity
has been started. The minister of Employment 'Eadie van Engleheurt' says that students who are
not engaged in the work of online academic criminal activities are doing very well in present
scenario.

In context of the government it will be beneficial for them because they can easily target
the main segment from which unnecessary activities are being conducted on regular basis. Even
strict can be taken against those person.
PART 3: PARLIAMENTARY PROCESSES
3. Describe how the amendment will be progressed and note any comments you think are
relevant on its progression and relating to the international agreement.
There are number of amendments that are required to be conducted by the government
every year and even they are important too. It is more relevant that how they those changes are
being done and what is the main impact of that particular law. In context of the case, Federal
Government have decided to join an international agreement with other countries. This will be
progessed from the same day on which it has been passed. The main benefits of the amendment
is to reduced the latest way of cheating through online sites. It is helpful for the purpose of
resolving the issues through which problem of cheating through online academic criminal
offence is being conducted (Lau, 2018).
“Every students are equal and they are required to complete given task of own” and it is
necessary that this comment must be considered on a serious nod so that chances of achieving
the better result will automatically increase. Also, this international agreement will help to
findout the data from different sources through which changes can be done for the purpose of
achieving better results of a student.

CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above file the Online academic writing is one of the criminal
offence that can destroy the life of students who are engaged in it. Act have been enforced
through which result have changed in the significant manner and even there is high chances that
better results can be obtained in future too. Media have been playing the important role as they
try to find any of the thing in detail through which detail knowledge and facts can be easily
found.

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