Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 524

  (1)   This section applies to a decision by each of the following kinds of person ( government body ):

  (a)   the Commonwealth;

  (b)   a Commonwealth agency;

  (c)   a State;

  (d)   a self - governing Territory;

  (e)   an agency of a State or self - governing Territory;

  (f)   an authority established by a law applying in a Territory that is not a self - governing Territory.

  (2)   A decision by a government body to grant a governmental authorisation (however described) for another person to take an action is not an action .

  (3)   To avoid doubt, a decision by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth agency to grant a governmental authorisation under one of the following Acts is not an action :

  (a)   the Customs Act 1901 ;

  (b)   the Export Control Act 2020 ;

  (c)   the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Act 1991 ;

  (d)   the Fisheries Management Act 1991 ;

  (e)   the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 ;

  (f)   the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 ;

  (g)   the Biosecurity Act 2015 ;

  (h)   the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ;

  (i)   the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021 .

This subsection does not limit this section.