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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To sunset on 1 October 2027
(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.
The University currently does not meet the threshold for registration and reporting.
(a) provide a national system of public health surveillance to enhance the capacity to identify, and respond to, significant public health events including the occurrence of:- certain communicable diseases; certain releases of chemical, biological or radiological agents; public health risks; overseas mass casualties; and
(b) provide for the sharing of information with the World Health Organization; and countries affected by an event relating to public health or an overseas mass casualty; and
(c) support the Commonwealth, States and Territories in giving effect to the International Health Regulations.
The University has obligations under this legislation specifically related to Security Sensitive Biological Agents (SSBA). Entities/facilities handling SSBA are required to maintain and review:- records of authorised/ approved personnel; incident reports; inventory records; decontamination procedures; transport, handling and management of SSBA; SSBA risk assessment and risk management plans; Policy, procedures relating to SSBA.
(a) to recognise and alleviate the impact of past institutional child sexual abuse and related abuse; and
(b) to provide justice for the survivors of that abuse.
(2) For the purposes of achieving those objects, the objects of this Act are also:
(a) to establish the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse; and
(b) to provide redress under the scheme which consists of:
(i) a monetary payment to survivors as a tangible means of recognising the wrong survivors have suffered; and
(ii) a counselling and psychological component which, depending on where the survivor lives, consists of access to counselling and psychological services or a monetary payment; and
(iii) a direct personal response to survivors from the participating institutions and partlyâ€'participating institutions responsible; and
(c) to enable institutions responsible for abuse of survivors to participate in the scheme to provide that redress to those survivors; and
(d) to implement the joint response of:
(i) the Commonwealth Government; and
(ii) the government of each participating State; and
(iii) the government of each participating Territory;
to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in relation to redress.
The EFI Act amended existing offences in the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) and introduced espionage-related offences. Some of the actions it criminalised include:
- covert and deceptive or threatening activities by persons intending to interfere with Australia’s democratic systems and processes
- supporting the intelligence activities of a foreign government.
Espionage:
* means dealing with information and communicating it to a foreign government. This can cause harm to Australia's national interests, advance a foreign country's national interests, or both.
* can involve defence, political, foreign relations or other security-classified information. It can also involve industrial or commercial information that affects Australia's national security.
Foreign interference:
* is an activity carried out by or on behalf of a foreign government. The activity may be coercive, threatening, deceptive or clandestine. It undermines Australia's sovereignty, values and national interests.
* Foreign interference activity may be used to:
- influence a political or government process
- influence the exercise of an Australian democratic or political right
- support the intelligence activities of a foreign government
- prejudice our national security.
* To be a crime under the Criminal Code Act, foreign interference must be linked to a foreign government or its proxy (also known as a foreign actor).
* The secretive nature of foreign interference makes it difficult to detect. Any harm to Australia may not be apparent for many years.
The principal objects of the Trust are to acquire, control, maintain, protect, and preserve for the benefit of the public generally land, buildings, works, structures, and articles of beauty or of national, historical, antiquarian, scientific, artistic, architectural, or cultural interest (including Aboriginal relics, Aboriginal rock carvings, and Aboriginal rock paintings and archaeological sites), and to protect and preserve the natural features of, and to conserve the flora and fauna on, any land acquired by or under control of the Trust.