I have heard that CASA, or the human employed by us in CASA, may write a perfectly fine and workable bit of legislation.
However, it then goes though other departments that have no idea about aviation to make it conform with legalese.
One titbit was that one does not write legislation unless a penalty can be applied to it.
Therefore something sensible, easily understood and not open to interpretation could be turned into a can of worms.
The Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) - the federal government’s drafting lawyers are the people who turn the perfectly easy reading and understandable regulations that are drafted by CASA SMEs, into the legal verbiage that most normal people cannot understand unless they have done a law degree…