Sometimes you come across legislative drafting that is so bad that there’s no excuse for it. The Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) s 45A(1) deems price fixing to substantially lessen competition for the purposes of s 45. It does this in one 152-word sentence that scores 0.0 on the Flesch Reading Ease Test and has a Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level of 63.1.