Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Alligator Rivers Region" has the same meaning as in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978 .
"Commission" means the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory , being the body corporate established under that name by the Conservation Commission Act 1980 of the Northern Territory .
"Director" has the meaning given by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 .
"ecosystem" means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro - organism communities and their non - living environment interacting as a functional unit.
"environment" includes:
(a) ecosystems and their constituent parts, including people and communities; and
(b) natural and physical resources; and
(c) the qualities and characteristics of locations, places and areas; and
(d) the social, economic and cultural aspects of a thing mentioned in paragraph ( a), (b) or (c).
"Land Council" means an Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 for an area that is, in whole or in part, within the Alligator Rivers Region.
"person" includes the Commonwealth, the Director or any other authority or body appointed or created by or under a law of the Commonwealth or the Northern Territory and also includes a Land Council.
"prescribed instrument" means any of the following, whether in force at the commencement of this Act or coming into force after that commencement:
(a) a law of the Commonwealth or of the Northern Territory ;
(b) an instrument made, granted or issued under or for the purposes of any such law, including:
(i) a permit, licence or lease under any such law; and
(ii) an authority under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 ; and
(iii) an agreement under Part IV of the Aboriginal Land Rights ( Northern Territory ) Act 1976 .
"requirement" means an obligation, condition, restriction or prohibition.
"uranium mining operations" means any operations or activities for or in connexion with, or incidental to, the mining (whether by underground or surface working) or recovery of uranium - bearing ore or the production of material from that ore and, in particular, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes:
(a) prospecting and exploration for uranium - bearing ore, the milling, refining, treatment and processing of uranium - bearing ore and the handling, transportation, storage and disposal of uranium - bearing ore and of material produced from uranium - bearing ore; and
(b) the construction and use of towns, camps, dams, pipelines, power lines or other structures, and the performance of any other work, for the purposes of any such operations or activities.