Sustainability-related Regulations Database

32 Results for "C29"

Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976
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The legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for managing parks and reserves across the Territory, focusing on the protection and conservation of wildlife and biological diversity. It enables the appropriate public use and enjoyment of these natural areas, while also safeguarding them from damage. A significant aspect involves joint management of specific parks and reserves with traditional Aboriginal owners, fostering an equitable partnership for enhanced conservation and cultural recognition. The legislation controls the introduction of harmful species, manages feral animals, and promotes the sustainable use of wildlife and their habitats. It includes provisions for comprehensive wildlife management, habitat protection, and regulatory measures to ensure the long-term health of the Territory's natural environment.
Environmental Protection Act 1986
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the management, protection, and conservation of public lands and waters, including their flora, fauna, and biodiversity, across the State. It creates a dedicated commission to oversee the sustainable use, preservation, and enjoyment of these natural resources. The law categorises various areas like national parks, State forests, and marine reserves, detailing processes for their vesting and ongoing management, ensuring permanent protection and considering Aboriginal cultural heritage. It outlines mechanisms for developing management plans, regulating activities such as timber harvesting, fishing, and aquaculture through permits and licences, and controlling forest diseases. The core purpose is to balance environmental conservation with community enjoyment and the sustainable use of natural assets.
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the conservation and sustainable management of Victoria's native flora and fauna. Its purpose is to ensure the long-term persistence and recovery of all species and communities, protect biodiversity, and mitigate threats from human activities and environmental changes. The law achieves this by enabling the listing of threatened species and processes, mandating conservation strategies and action plans, and allowing for the determination and protection of critical habitats. It regulates activities such as taking, trading, or keeping protected flora and fish through a permitting system. The legislation also provides powers for enforcement, ensuring compliance and accountability, particularly for industries operating within natural environments, to promote ecologically sustainable resource use.
Heritage Act 1977
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This legislation aims to protect and promote the environmental heritage of New South Wales. It establishes a framework for identifying, registering, and conserving significant heritage items, including historic shipwrecks and relics. The framework includes provisions for interim protection, control over activities affecting heritage sites, and financial assistance for conservation efforts. It creates a dedicated council to manage heritage listings, enforce maintenance standards, and provide approvals for modifications. The legislation also ensures government bodies manage their heritage assets responsibly, facilitates relic discovery and protection, and outlines compliance requirements for individuals and organizations involved in activities impacting heritage. Its core purpose is to foster understanding and encourage the long-term preservation of the state's heritage.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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This legislation establishes a framework for protecting Australia's environment and conserving biodiversity, promoting ecologically sustainable development. It focuses on matters of national environmental significance such as World Heritage areas, threatened species, and protected marine environments. The framework requires environmental approvals for actions likely to have a significant impact on these matters, involving assessment processes and often specific conditions. It also implements a permit system for actions affecting protected species and cetaceans. The legislation aims to promote a cooperative approach across governments, communities, and Indigenous peoples, recognizing their role and knowledge in conservation efforts and assisting in international environmental responsibilities.
Nature Repair Act 2023
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A national voluntary framework is established to enhance and protect biodiversity across Australia's native species. Its core purpose is to promote ecological health, fulfill international biodiversity commitments, and contribute to preventing new extinctions. The framework encourages broad engagement from various participants, including landholders and private enterprise, with a special emphasis on supporting and integrating the unique role and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in conservation. It provides a means for recognizing and valuing biodiversity outcomes, fostering investment in environmental improvements. Through this system, Australia aims to build national capacity and a knowledge base crucial for achieving its long-term biodiversity goals.
Work Health and Safety Act 2011
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive and nationally consistent framework for ensuring the health and safety of workers and workplaces. Its primary goal is to protect individuals from harm by mandating the elimination or minimisation of risks arising from work. It defines clear duties of care for businesses, their officers, and workers, as well as those managing workplaces or supplying plant and substances. The framework emphasizes mandatory consultation, representation, and cooperation on health and safety issues, alongside requirements for incident notification and authorization for certain activities. Regulators are empowered to monitor compliance, investigate, and enforce standards through notices, undertakings, and legal proceedings. The legislation promotes ongoing improvement in safety practices and fosters national harmonization of work health and safety laws.
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994
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This legislation establishes Australia's comprehensive regulatory system for agricultural and veterinary chemical products and their active constituents. Its purpose is to evaluate, register, and control these substances, ensuring human, animal, and environmental health and safety. It promotes ecologically sustainable development, enhances primary industry and manufacturing competitiveness, and fosters trade. The system aims to be cost-effective, efficient, predictable, and transparent, with opportunities for public involvement. It achieves uniformity across Australia, securing compliance through robust enforcement mechanisms. This framework manages product approval, manufacturing licensing, supply controls, and recalls, ensuring only safe and effective chemicals enter the market and are used responsibly.
Fuel Security Act 2021 Cth
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This legislation strengthens Australia's fuel security and supply confidence by introducing two core mechanisms. It mandates a Minimum Stockholding Obligation for regulated entities involved in fuel refining or importing, requiring them to maintain specific quantities of fuel stocks within Australia. This ensures a strategic reserve and defines criteria for holding these stocks, including provisions for temporary adjustments. Additionally, the legislation establishes a Fuel Security Services Payment, providing financial support to Australian refineries to bolster domestic refined fuel production and sovereign capability. The framework includes comprehensive compliance, reporting, and enforcement measures to ensure adherence, contributing to Australia's international energy obligations and preventing fuel supply disruptions.
Regional Investment Corporation Act 2018 Cth
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This legislation establishes a government corporation to administer financial assistance programs across the nation. Its primary purpose is to provide farm business loans and financial aid for water infrastructure projects to states and territories. Additionally, it manages other programs as prescribed by specific rules. The corporation is responsible for setting interest rates, managing loan terms, and offering advice to borrowers. Its operations are guided by an Operating Mandate from responsible ministers, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery. A Board of qualified members and a Chief Executive Officer oversee its functions. Agricultural organizations seeking assistance must meet specific lending criteria and adhere to loan terms, including payment of transaction costs. This body is designed to support agricultural resilience and water resource development by facilitating access to crucial funding.
Future Drought Fund Act 2019 Cth
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This legislation establishes the Future Drought Fund to enhance Australia's drought resilience. It transfers existing funds into this new fund, managed by the Future Fund Board to maximize long-term returns. Annually, $100 million is transferred from the Future Drought Fund to the Agriculture Future Drought Resilience Special Account, which enables the Drought Minister to provide grants and make arrangements for drought resilience projects, research, and technology adoption. A consultative committee provides advice on funding strategies, and all arrangements and grants are guided by a Drought Resilience Funding Plan. Information about grant recipients and projects is publicly available to ensure transparency.
Environment Protection Act 2019
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for protecting and managing the Northern Territory’s environment, promoting ecologically sustainable development. It mandates environmental impact assessments and approvals for activities with potential significant environmental impact, alongside specific licensing for mining operations. A core aim is to ensure broad community involvement, recognising Aboriginal people’s role as stewards of their country in decision-making processes. The law imposes general obligations for environmental care, diligent site management, and transparent incident reporting, supported by financial provisions like bonds and levies. It provides robust enforcement powers, including notices and audits, to ensure compliance with environmental standards, facilitate remediation, and ensure rehabilitation duties are met, emphasizing due diligence from all parties to prevent environmental harm and ensure accountability.
Environment Protection Act 1997
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework aimed at safeguarding and improving environmental quality while protecting human health. It achieves this by actively promoting pollution prevention, clean production, material reuse and recycling, and waste minimisation practices. A core focus is also placed on effectively managing and remediating contaminated land. The framework outlines general environmental duties for individuals and organisations, requires environmental authorisations for specific activities, and mandates progressive environmental improvements. It empowers an Environment Protection Authority to oversee environmental monitoring, ensure compliance through various tools like environmental improvement plans, audits, and enforcement orders, and recover costs associated with environmental harm or remediation. This ensures environmental considerations are integrated into decision-making and accountability for pollution is maintained.
Fair Work Act 2009
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This legislation establishes a balanced framework for cooperative and productive workplace relations across Australia, aiming to promote national economic prosperity and social inclusion. It provides fair and flexible workplace laws that advance job security, gender equality, productivity, and economic growth. A guaranteed safety net of minimum terms and conditions is ensured through national employment standards, modern awards, and national minimum wage orders. The law protects against unfair individual employment agreements and extends minimum standards to regulated digital platform and road transport workers. It supports work-life balance through flexible arrangements, upholds freedom of association, prevents discrimination, and facilitates enterprise-level collective bargaining with clear rules. Effective dispute resolution and compliance mechanisms are central to achieving fairness and productivity, with consideration for the specific circumstances of small and medium-sized businesses.
Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986
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This legislation establishes the Australian Human Rights Commission to promote and protect human rights and equal opportunity, with a particular focus on employment. It empowers the Commission to inquire into and conciliate complaints of unlawful discrimination and acts inconsistent with human rights. The Commission actively promotes public understanding through research and educational programs, and advises the government on human rights laws and compliance with international instruments. Additionally, it addresses systemic unlawful discrimination and enforces a positive duty related to sex discrimination, including issuing compliance notices. The legislation grants the Commission powers to obtain necessary information for its functions and outlines processes for redress in discrimination cases, while prohibiting interference with its work or victimisation of those who cooperate.
Labour Hire Licensing Act 2020
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for licensing and regulating providers of labour hire services. Its primary purpose is to protect workers from exploitation and ensure that labour hire businesses meet their legal and ethical obligations. It aims to foster integrity and responsible practices within the labour hire industry. A key feature is a mandatory licensing scheme, requiring all labour hire providers to obtain and maintain a licence, demonstrating their suitability and adherence to workplace laws. A public register of licensed providers enhances transparency. The legislation outlines penalties for operating without a licence, breaching conditions, or engaging unlicensed providers. It also grants powers for monitoring compliance, conducting investigations, and taking regulatory action, ensuring a fair and compliant labour hire market.
Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001 No80
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for regulating apprenticeships and traineeships across various vocations. It outlines processes for designating recognised trades, setting training guidelines, and formalising training contracts and plans. The law defines clear duties for employers, apprentices, trainees, and training organisations to ensure appropriate training, supervision, and progress monitoring. It also includes provisions for recognising trade qualifications, managing training changes, and restricting junior employment in trades. Additionally, the legislation provides mechanisms for resolving disputes, enforcing compliance through disciplinary actions and prohibition orders, and details powers for industry training officers, including inspection rights. Employers must adhere to strict requirements for application, training delivery, notification of changes, and record-keeping.
Training and Skills Development Act 2016
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for vocational education and training in the Northern Territory. Its primary purpose is to ensure the provision of nationally recognised training that addresses current and future needs of government, industry, and the community, thereby supporting employment and economic growth. The framework aims to enhance quality, flexibility, innovation, and access within vocational education. It defines the responsibilities for employers, apprentices, trainees, and Registered Training Organisations. Key provisions include processes for employer approval, the creation and management of training contracts and plans, and the oversight of training providers. It also sets out regulations for apprentice and trainee wages, employer record-keeping, and compliance through authorised officers, ensuring a responsive and effective training system for a skilled workforce.
Vocational Education and Training Act 1996
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive vocational education and training system in Western Australia. It aims to efficiently meet industry and community skill needs by regulating training providers and courses. The framework ensures a competitive training market and promotes equality of opportunity in skill development. Key functions include registering and accrediting vocational training providers and courses, as well as overseeing and enforcing rules for training contracts, such as apprenticeships. The system is governed by a Ministerial Corporation, advised by a State Training Board, and regulated by a Training Accreditation Council. It outlines requirements for training colleges, ensuring strategic planning and accountability. Provisions also detail compliance, inspection, and enforcement measures to maintain high standards and integrity across the state's training landscape.
Public Holidays Act 2010 No115
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This legislation establishes and governs public holidays throughout New South Wales. It declares standard public holidays and provides mechanisms for the Minister to announce additional or substitute holidays for the state or specific areas. The Act incorporates Commonwealth employee entitlements concerning public holiday absence and payment, making them applicable laws in NSW. It also enables the designation of local event days for community significance, which are not public holidays. Employers must observe declared holidays, allow employee absence, and ensure correct payment in line with the applied Commonwealth provisions. The legislation includes provisions for regulations and mandates a review of its effectiveness.
Public Holidays Act 1981
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This legislation establishes and regulates the observance of public holidays in the Northern Territory. It specifies the annual public holidays and grants the Minister authority to appoint additional holidays or alter existing ones. All new or modified public holidays must be officially published in the Gazette within defined timeframes. The legislation also repeals previous acts and ordinances related to public holidays, ensuring a current and comprehensive framework for their designation and management across the Territory.
Plant Breeders Rights Act 1994
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive system for granting intellectual property rights to breeders of new varieties of plants and fungi. Its primary purpose is to protect these innovations by defining the scope of Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR), which include exclusive rights over the production, sale, import, and export of propagating material. The law outlines detailed procedures for applying for, granting, and revoking PBR, ensuring that protected varieties meet specific criteria such as distinctness, uniformity, and stability. It also extends protection to essentially derived varieties, provides exceptions for activities like farm-saved seed use, and ensures reasonable public access to protected varieties. An administrative framework is established to manage and enforce these rights, aiming to foster continued innovation in plant and fungi breeding.
Climate Change Net Zero Future Act 2023 No 48
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for New South Wales to address climate change, fulfilling international commitments to limit global temperature increases and enhance climate resilience for a sustainable future. It sets ambitious targets to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels: by at least 50% by 2030, 70% by 2035, and achieving net zero by 2050. An independent Net Zero Commission is established to monitor progress towards these emission reduction and adaptation objectives, provide expert advice and recommendations to the government, and educate businesses and individuals on climate action. While the legislation mandates government action and oversight, it does not impose direct compliance requirements on private agricultural organizations, instead focusing on informing and advising sectors like agriculture on climate change initiatives.
Forestry Act 2012 No 96
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the dedication, management, and use of State forests and Crown-timber land in New South Wales. It creates the Forestry Corporation of New South Wales as a statutory body responsible for these lands. The Act aims for the Corporation to operate as a successful, efficient business, maximising the State's investment, while also upholding principles of ecologically sustainable development. Key aspects include regulating timber and forest product harvesting through licensing and fees, facilitating public access and recreational use, conserving fauna, and enabling renewable energy infrastructure in designated areas. It ensures forest operations are managed sustainably, integrating environmental regulations and providing for enforcement to maintain compliance across forestry activities.
Marine Estate Management Act 2014 No 72
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It establishes a framework for the strategic coordination and management of the New South Wales marine estate, including marine parks and aquatic reserves, aligning with ecologically sustainable development principles. It aims to foster a biologically diverse, healthy, and productive marine environment, while facilitating economic opportunities and cultural, social, and recreational uses. Key provisions include establishing advisory bodies, requiring a comprehensive management strategy, and setting rules for declaring and managing marine parks and aquatic reserves. This involves defining zones, regulating activities, prohibiting mining, and ensuring development proposals consider environmental impacts and ministerial concurrence within or near these protected areas. It also covers enforcement and funding for marine conservation efforts.
Dairy Act 2000
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This legislation deregulates milk pricing and supply by removing previous controls. It establishes Dairy Food Safety Victoria to oversee the industry. A comprehensive licensing system is introduced for dairy farmers, manufacturers, carriers, and distributors, extending to transport vehicles. The law mandates the development and implementation of Codes of Practice and food safety programs, ensuring robust public health and hygiene standards across the dairy sector. It also grants powers for enforcement and compliance monitoring, aiming to safeguard dairy product quality for consumers.
Plant Biosecurity Act 2010
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive system to safeguard plant health in Victoria. Its primary purpose is to prevent, monitor, control, and eradicate plant pests and diseases, ensuring biosecurity within the state and regulating the movement of plants, plant products, and associated materials. It sets out stringent requirements for importation and possession, including mandatory certifications like assurance and plant health declarations. The Act empowers inspectors to enforce controls, manage infected areas, and direct the treatment or disposal of diseased materials. It also specifies obligations for agricultural organizations and individuals, covering property identification, pest notification, and packaging standards. The framework includes provisions for compliance agreements, accreditation, cost recovery, and outlines penalties for various offenses, all designed to protect Victoria's agricultural sector.
Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016
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This legislation conserves and protects Western Australian biodiversity, including native species and ecological communities, promoting their ecologically sustainable use. It establishes systems for listing threatened species, communities, and critical habitats, mandating recovery plans and enabling conservation agreements and covenants. The law regulates all interactions with native fauna and flora, vesting their property in the State and generally prohibiting taking, disturbing, or dealing with them without lawful authority. Specific provisions cover Aboriginal customary use and nature-based tourism. It imposes duties on land users, requiring reporting of threatened species or community occurrences and compliance with conservation notices. Enforcement powers are granted to wildlife officers, ensuring adherence to its provisions and imposing penalties for non-compliance.
Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for managing biosecurity and agriculture across Western Australia. It controls the entry, establishment, spread, and impact of organisms that could harm the environment, human health, or agricultural, fishing, and pearling activities. The framework also regulates the safe and responsible use of agricultural and veterinary chemicals, sets standards for the safety and quality of agricultural products, and prohibits adulteration. Key provisions include import restrictions, management of declared pests, and enforcement powers for inspectors. Financial mechanisms are established to fund biosecurity initiatives, ensuring the state's agricultural integrity and environmental health are protected.
Exotic Diseases of Animals Act 1993
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This legislation provides a comprehensive framework for managing exotic animal diseases. It mandates the prompt reporting and isolation of suspected outbreaks, empowering authorities with broad powers to investigate, quarantine, and disinfect affected animals, premises, and vehicles. The framework enables the declaration of infected, restricted, or controlled areas and implements strict movement restrictions to prevent disease spread. It prohibits the unauthorized possession or use of exotic disease agents and allows for import controls to protect biosecurity. Key provisions include the ability to order the destruction of infected animals or property when necessary, with compensation potentially available. The overall purpose is to safeguard public health, ensure the rapid detection, containment, and eradication of exotic diseases, and protect animal industries.
Soil and Land Conservation Act 1945
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for conserving soil and land resources and mitigating degradation from erosion, salinity, and flooding. It aims to prevent land degradation and promote sustainable land use through education, surveys, and the design of preventive measures. The law creates the Commissioner of Soil and Land Conservation, a Soil and Land Conservation Council, and local Land Conservation Districts to administer and coordinate conservation efforts. It enables the declaration of Soil Conservation Reserves, the implementation of Conservation Covenants, and the issuance of Soil Conservation Notices to regulate land management practices. Landholders are required to comply with approved codes of practice, district regulations, and notices. The legislation also provides for the imposition of rates or service charges to fund conservation initiatives, binding agreements for vegetation protection, and restrictions on activities within reserves. It mandates reporting requirements for changes in land ownership subject to these instruments.
Waterways Conservation Act 1976
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the conservation and management of waters, including rivers, inlets, and estuaries, and their associated land and environment. Its purpose is to prevent and control pollution, preserve and enhance environmental quality, and ensure the sustainable management of these natural resources. The law empowers the responsible Minister to define management areas, develop and implement detailed plans, and issue licences for activities that may impact waterways. It outlines powers for pollution control, including the ability to issue orders and undertake remedial works, supported by enforcement mechanisms. The legislation also sets out specific requirements for various sectors, such as agriculture, concerning waste discharge, monitoring, and adherence to environmental standards, promoting coordinated action for waterway health.