Sustainability-related Regulations Database

19 Results for "C40"

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.
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.
Competition and Consumer Act 2010 Cth
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This legislation promotes competition, fair trading, and consumer protection across Australian markets. It establishes key regulatory bodies like the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and prohibits various anti-competitive practices, including cartel conduct, misuse of market power, and other restrictive dealings. The Act also provides frameworks for access to essential infrastructure services, regulates specific industries such as news media and the gas market, and establishes mechanisms for industry-specific codes of conduct to ensure fair business practices. Its overall purpose is to prevent behaviors that would substantially lessen competition, fostering a competitive and equitable economic environment.
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.
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.
Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for licensing and regulating providers of labour hire services. Its primary aims are to protect workers from exploitation and to promote integrity within the labour hire industry. The law mandates that all labour hire providers must hold a licence to operate, and prohibits engaging with unlicensed providers or attempting to circumvent the regulations. Applicants for a licence must demonstrate they are fit and proper persons and that their business is financially viable. Licensed providers are required to comply with all relevant laws, submit regular reports on their operations, ensure their nominated officers are available, and notify authorities of significant changes. A public register of licences is maintained for transparency.
Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017
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This legislation establishes a mandatory licensing scheme for labour hire services, aiming to protect workers from exploitation, safeguard licensed businesses from predatory practices, and uphold the integrity of the industry. It requires all providers to hold a licence and prohibits engaging with unlicensed services. The framework mandates licence holders to meet eligibility criteria, pay periodic fees, submit regular reports, and promptly notify authorities of significant changes. Provisions include strict requirements for responsible management, robust enforcement powers for monitoring compliance, and a public register for transparency. The legislation also prohibits false information and requires licence numbers in advertisements, ensuring accountability across the sector.
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.
Further Education and Training Act 2014
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This legislation establishes a modern and robust framework for regulating apprenticeships and traineeships in Queensland. Its core purpose is to cultivate a skilled workforce that effectively meets the current and future needs of industry, government, and the community, thereby strengthening the state’s economic base. It facilitates high-quality vocational education and training directly linked to employment, supporting individuals in accessing and completing the skills training required for job readiness and personal prosperity. The legislation streamlines the system through provisions governing training contracts, outlining specific obligations for employers and training organisations, and establishing mechanisms for compliance, including inspector powers and a Training Ombudsman. It aims to support industries and employers in fostering and retaining apprentices and trainees, ensuring a responsive and flexible approach to trade training.
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 Tertiary Education Act 2003
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for vocational education and training, primarily focusing on apprenticeships and traineeships. Its purpose is to regulate the approval, management, and oversight of formal training contracts between employers and individuals, ensuring structured and quality work-related learning experiences. The legislation aims to support high standards and best practices within the vocational sector by outlining requirements for training providers and employers, enforcing compliance with approved codes, and enabling monitoring through authorised visits. It empowers a director-general to manage contracts, resolve disputes, and ensure adherence to established requirements, while also promoting the development of vocational training that aligns with industry needs. Non-compliance, such as providing training without an approved contract, incurs penalties.
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.
Industrial Relations Act 1996 No17
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for industrial relations in New South Wales. Its primary purpose is to ensure fair and just employment conditions, promote economic efficiency, and facilitate prompt dispute resolution across the state. It empowers the Industrial Relations Commission to set employment standards through awards and approve enterprise agreements, while also preventing discrimination and ensuring equal remuneration. The framework protects employee rights, including parental leave entitlements and remedies for unfair dismissal. It outlines employer obligations regarding remuneration and record-keeping, and regulates industrial organisations to ensure democratic control and transparent operations. The legislation also provides mechanisms for enforcement, inspections, and the recovery of unpaid wages, fostering cooperative and productive workplace relations.
Fair Work Act 1994
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for managing employer-employee relations in South Australia. It aims to ensure fair and equitable industrial matters, including setting minimum standards for wages, various types of leave such as sick, carer's, bereavement, family and domestic violence, annual, and parental leave, and severance payments. The framework promotes industrial efficiency, economic prosperity, and employment security. It provides mechanisms for resolving disputes through conciliation and adjudication by the South Australian Employment Tribunal, and outlines procedures for enterprise agreements and awards. Key protections include rights against unfair dismissal, freedom of association, and the prevention of workplace discrimination, ensuring equal remuneration and balancing work with family responsibilities. Employers are also subject to strict record-keeping and compliance requirements.
Industrial Relations Act 1979
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A comprehensive framework governs industrial relations in Western Australia, aiming to consolidate and amend laws for preventing and resolving workplace conflicts. It defines the rights and duties of employers, employees, and industrial organisations, fostering goodwill, freedom of association, and fair terms of employment. The framework promotes gender equality, fair wages, collective bargaining, and efficient work practices balanced with employee fairness. It provides robust mechanisms for dispute resolution, including conciliation and arbitration by the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission, and ensures the enforcement of agreements and awards. Additionally, it prevents bullying and sexual harassment, protects employee rights against discrimination and sham contracts, and mandates transparent record-keeping for employers and registered organisations.
Food Production Safety Act 2000
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This legislation establishes Safe Food Production QLD to oversee the safe production of primary produce for human and animal consumption, while also ensuring food quality. It mandates the development and adherence to food safety schemes that dictate production methods, hygiene, and handling. The Act establishes an accreditation system for producers and an auditing framework to monitor compliance with these schemes and required food safety programs. It outlines serious food safety offences related to unsafe produce, unwholesome meat or seafood, and unauthorised production, alongside clear enforcement powers for officers. The aim is to minimise food safety risks and promote quality assurance across agricultural industries. Businesses must prepare food safety programs, obtain accreditation, and comply with all scheme conditions, reporting, and officer directives to prevent unsafe food from reaching consumers.
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.
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.