Legislation

Directory of Legislation

On this page you will find a list of legislation and legislative instruments applicable to compliance management at UNE.  Clicking on the name will take you to more information, where a link is provided.  This may be an external website or document.

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  • Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) - Level 1This Act requires entities based, or operating, in Australia, which have an annual consolidated revenue of more than $100 million, to report annually on the risks of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains, and actions to address those risks. Other entities based, or operating, in Australia may report voluntarily.

    The Commonwealth is required to report on behalf of nonâ€'corporate Commonwealth entities, and the reporting requirements also apply to Commonwealth corporate entities and companies with an annual consolidated revenue of more than $100 million.

    Reports are kept by the Minister in a public repository known as the Modern Slavery Statements Register. Statements on the register may be accessed by the public, free of charge, on the internet.
  • Modern Slavery Act 2018 NSW (NSW) - Level 1An Act to make provision with respect to slavery, slavery-like practices and human trafficking and to provide for the appointment and functions of an Anti-slavery Commissioner; and for other purposes

    The objects of this Act are to combat modern slavery, provide assistance and support for victims of modern slavery, provide for an Anti-slavery Commissioner, provide for detection and exposure of modern slavery that may have occurred or be occurring or that is likely to occur, raise community awareness of, and provide for education and training about, modern slavery,
    to encourage collaborative action to combat modern slavery, provide for the assessment of the effectiveness and appropriateness of laws prohibiting modern slavery and to improve the implementation and enforcement of such laws, provide for mandatory reporting of risks of modern slavery occurring in the supply chains of government agencies and commercial organisations, make forced marriage of a child and certain slavery and slavery-like conduct offences in New South Wales and to further penalise involvement in cybersex trafficking by making it an offence to administer a digital platform for the purpose of child abuse material.