Legislation
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The EPBC Act is the Australian Governments central piece of environmental legislation. It provides a legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places defined in the Act as matters of national environmental significance.
Legislation administered by the Minister
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
- Antarctic Acts
- Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981
- Antarctic Treaty Act 1960
- Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Act 1980
- Australian Antarctic Territory Acceptance Act 1933
- Australian Antarctic Territory Act 1954
- Australian Heritage Council Act 2003
- Captains Flat (Abatement of Pollution) Agreement Act 1975
- Chowilla Reservoir Agreement Act 1963
- Dartmouth Reservoir Agreement Act 1970
- Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981
- Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Acts
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge-Excise) Act 1993
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge-General) Act 1993
- Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands Act 1953
- Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act 1997
- Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976
- Koongarra Project Area Act 1981
- Lake Eyre Basin Intergovernmental Agreement Act 2001
- Meteorology Act 1955
- Morgan-Whyalla Waterworks Agreement Act 1940
- National Environment Protection Council Act 1994
- National Environment Protection Measures (Implementation) Act 1998
- National Rental Affordability Scheme Act 2008
- National Water Commission Act 2004
- Natural Heritage Trust of Australia Act 1997
- Natural Resources Management (Financial Assistance) Act 1992, section 25(1)
- Ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas acts
- Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989
- Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995
- Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995
- Product Stewardship Act 2011
- Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000
- Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 - insofar as it relates to the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory
- Sea Installations Act 1987
- Sea Installations Levy Act 1987
- Sewerage Agreements Act 1973
- Sewerage Agreements Act 1974
- State Grants (Water Resources Measurement) Act 1970
- Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Act 2001
- Water Act 2007
- Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005
- Western Australia Agreement (Ord River Irrigation) Act 1968
- Western Australia Agreement (Ord River Irrigation) Act 1980
- Western Australia (South-West Region Water Supplies) Agreement Act 1965
- Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area Conservation Act 1994
