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.
- National Environment Protection Council (New South Wales) Act 1995 (NSW) - Level 3The object of this Act is to ensure that, by means of the establishment and operation of the National Environment Protection Council:
(a) people enjoy the benefit of equivalent protection from air, water or soil pollution and from noise, wherever they live in Australia, and
(b) decisions of the business community are not distorted, and markets are not fragmented, by variations between participating jurisdictions in relation to the adoption or implementation of major environment protection measures.
- National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (Cth) - Level 3This Act for National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER ) provides for a single national reporting framework for information related to greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas projects, energy production and energy consumption. At present, organisations that are (1) Constitutional corporations; and (2) Meet an NGER threshold; must report their greenhouse gas emissions, energy production, and energy use for a reporting year for each year in which they meet a threshold. The legislation includes regulations and guidelines for measurement of emissions, energy production and use to ensure standardisation of terms and measurement data. The Act aims to provide the basis for the future introduction of an emissions trading scheme.
The University currently does not meet the threshold for registration and reporting.
- National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 (Cth) - Level 3An Act to establish a National Health and Medical Research Council, and for related purposes.
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987 (Cth) - Level 3An Act to make provision in relation to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and to establish, in accordance with certain international treaties and agreements to which Australia is a party, a system for the imposition and maintenance of nuclear safeguards in Australia, and for related matters