Sustainability-related Regulations Database

26 Results for "C32"

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.
National Enviromental Protection Council Victoria Act 1995
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It provides for the establishment of a national body responsible for coordinating environmental protection across Australia. This body develops and oversees national environment protection measures designed to ensure consistent environmental standards and prevent market distortions due to varying regional regulations. The measures cover areas like air and water quality, noise, hazardous wastes, and recycling, establishing national standards, goals, guidelines, and protocols. Their development involves public consultation and considers environmental, economic, and social impacts. The framework defines governmental responsibilities for implementing and annually reporting on the effectiveness of these national measures. Specific compliance requirements for industries, such as agriculture, are then derived from subsequent laws enacted by participating jurisdictions to give effect to these national guidelines.
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.
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.
Animal Care and Protection Act 2001
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework to promote the responsible care and use of animals and prevent cruelty. It imposes a duty of care on those in charge of animals, requiring appropriate provision for their needs and humane handling. The act prohibits a wide range of cruel conduct, including causing unjustifiable pain, engaging in prohibited animal fighting events, and performing certain regulated procedures without veterinary oversight or accreditation. It sets out rules for the ethical use of animals for scientific purposes, including registration and adherence to a national code. Furthermore, it mandates specific compliance measures for livestock slaughter facilities, such as CCTV installation and horse arrival notifications. The legislation enables the creation of compulsory animal welfare codes of practice and provides powers for officers to monitor and enforce compliance, ensuring animal protection and welfare standards are maintained across various contexts.
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.
Export Control Act 2020 Cth
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework to control the export of Australian goods, including agricultural products and food. Its core purpose is to ensure compliance with international and domestic standards, maintain access to overseas markets, and safeguard human, animal, and plant health. The framework mandates requirements for export operations, including property accreditation, establishment registration, approved arrangements, and export licences. It ensures exported goods are traceable, possess integrity, and have accurate trade descriptions, supported by government certificates. The legislation empowers authorised officers for compliance audits and assessments, provides robust enforcement mechanisms, and includes specific provisions for animal welfare, such as phasing out live sheep exports by sea by 2028.
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.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991
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The legislation establishes a comprehensive framework to safeguard public health and consumer confidence regarding food in Australia and New Zealand. It creates Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to develop and regulate food standards, ensuring food quality, safety, and clear information for consumers. The framework aims for an efficient, transparent regulatory environment, promoting consistency across both countries and with international measures while prioritizing health safeguards. Key provisions define procedures for creating and varying food standards, covering aspects like composition, production, handling, labelling, advertising, and hygiene. It also outlines review mechanisms for draft standards and specific requirements for compliance across the food industry, including agricultural organisations, ensuring adherence to rigorous food safety and quality benchmarks.
Imported Food Control Act 1992
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework to regulate food imported into Australia. Its primary aim is to protect public health and safety by ensuring all imported food products comply with Australian food standards and health requirements. It outlines a mandatory food inspection scheme, including rules for importation, labelling, and movement of food. The legislation details a system for issuing food control certificates and managing "failing food" through required treatment, destruction, or re-exportation. It also defines offences and civil penalties for non-compliance, mandates strict record-keeping for importers, and grants powers for monitoring, investigation, and enforcement. Furthermore, it provides for compliance agreements and cost recovery for services, ensuring accountability and adherence to national food safety protocols.
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.
Primary Industries Customs Charges Act 2024
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This legislation establishes a framework for imposing charges, treated as customs duties, on primary industry products and goods used in animal, plant, fungi, or algae maintenance and treatment. These charges fund marketing, advertising, and promotion for primary industries, alongside essential research and development activities. They also support critical biosecurity initiatives, including health promotion, disease response, and the National Residue Survey, plus other prescribed beneficial activities. The framework enables regulations to specify charge rates, applicable products, exemptions, and the liable parties. It mandates consultation with nominated industry representative and polling bodies, ensuring their input is considered before setting or amending charge rates, reflecting industry priorities in these financial contributions.
Primary Industries Excise Levies Act 2024
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This legislation establishes the authority for regulations to impose excise levies across various primary industries. Its core purpose is to enable the collection of funds from animal, plant, fungus, and algal products, or goods used in their production and maintenance. These levies are intended to support critical activities that benefit primary industries, including marketing, advertising, promotion, research and development, biosecurity initiatives, biosecurity response matters, and the National Residue Survey. Future regulations will determine specific levy rates, exemptions, and identify the persons responsible for payment. A key requirement is that the Minister must consult with relevant industry bodies and representative organisations before any levy rates are set or amended, ensuring industry input into these financial contributions.
Agricultural Chemicals Distribution Control Act 1966
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This legislation establishes controls for the distribution of agricultural chemicals using both aircraft and ground equipment. Its primary purpose is to ensure the safe and responsible application of these substances across various agricultural sectors. The Act mandates specific licensing requirements for individuals operating chemical distribution equipment, such as pilots and commercial operators, and for contractors offering these services. It also defines the roles and powers of the chief executive, inspectors, and analysts for administration and enforcement. Key provisions include detailed rules for licence application, renewal, and conditions, as well as obligations for contractors to maintain comprehensive records of chemical distributions. The legislation grants inspectors powers to investigate compliance, allows for the designation of hazardous distribution areas, and addresses the use of faulty equipment. It also sets out offences and penalties to enforce adherence to its regulatory framework.
Biosecurity Act 2015 No 24
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework to prevent, eliminate, and manage biosecurity risks across the state. Its primary purpose is to protect primary production industries, terrestrial and aquatic environments, public health and safety, and community infrastructure from pests, diseases, and contaminants. It promotes biosecurity as a shared responsibility, setting out a general biosecurity duty for all individuals. The framework enables timely and effective risk management through emergency orders, control zones, and ongoing regulatory measures. Key provisions include mandatory notification of biosecurity events, requirements for biosecurity registration and audits, and powers for enforcement. It also facilitates market access by aligning with intergovernmental agreements and provides for compensation in certain situations.
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.
Meat Industry Act 1993
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This legislation establishes comprehensive standards for producing meat for human consumption and pet food, including poultry and game. It creates a robust licensing and inspection system for meat processing facilities and transport vehicles, managed by PrimeSafe. The law mandates quality assurance programs and Codes of Practice to ensure compliance. It defines operator responsibilities, prohibits unsafe practices like selling uninspected or diseased meat, and outlines detailed record-keeping and testing requirements. It grants strong enforcement powers to maintain public health and animal welfare standards across the entire meat industry.
Livestock Disease Control Act 1994
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for managing livestock diseases. It aims to protect public health, safeguard domestic and export markets for livestock products, and prevent or eradicate exotic animal diseases. The Act mandates prompt notification of suspected or known diseases, implements robust livestock identification and movement controls, and empowers authorities to enforce quarantines and other disease control measures. It includes specific provisions for various livestock activities like beekeeping and artificial breeding, and establishes compensation schemes for losses caused by certain diseases. The legislation also outlines duties for livestock sales, requires extensive record-keeping, and grants inspectors broad powers for enforcement and compliance across the agricultural sector.
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.
Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the management, control, and prevention of specific plants and animals, primarily to safeguard agriculture and related resources. It empowers the designation of certain plants and animals as declared pests, assigning them categories that dictate required control measures such as eradication, population reduction, or prevention of spread. The framework also regulates their introduction, movement, and keeping, including the management of native declared animals through approved programs. Furthermore, it governs the safe storage, use, and transport of agricultural chemicals to prevent harm. Agricultural organizations are mandated to comply with specific control actions for declared pests, adhere to biosecurity protocols, and follow strict regulations for chemical handling, supported by powers of inspection and enforcement.
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.