“It seems that these references were generated and attached to the document after the fact, as they are not cited in the body of the text.

“In addition to implementing precautionary suspensions, the department has appointed two independent law firms to respectively manage the disciplinary process and review all policy documents produced by the department dating back to 30 November 2022,” DHA stated.

If this were a University I would expect these two to be expelled and receive no credits for the entire semester. References are important for anti-plagiarism, proof of work, and documentation of evidence to support the article. I would argue it is the most important part of a document.