[codingdave]

I did one semester of law school before deciding I didn't really want to go that route, and while I'm not going to comment on how to read this law, I can tell you my most effective technique for really breaking down the language of legal documents:

Treat every paragraph like a great big chain of boolean logic. The confusing parts of law are normally due to long paragraphs of 'and' and 'or', all mingled together. Parsing those in legal documents isn't any different than parsing them in code. But we normally don't have to think that way when reading, so it feels more confusing than it really is.

Try re-reading it specifically looking for the ands/ors, and envision how they really operate on the words of the paragraph, and legal reading will suddenly become far more clear.