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Title

Federal Environment Watchdog Bill 2021

Database

Bills & Legislation

Long Title

A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the environment, and for related purposes

Date

31-08-2021 03:38 PM

Source

Senate

Parl No.

47

Bill Number

S15/21

Bill Type

Private

Portfolio

 

Reps Bill Code

O

Status

Before Senate

System Id

legislation/bills/s1317_first-senate/0000


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Federal Environment Watchdog Bill 2021

2019-2021

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

THE SENATE

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

Federal Environment Watchdog Bill 2021

 

No.      , 2021

 

(Senator Hanson-Young)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the environment, and for related purposes

   

   

Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                 3

Part 1—Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority                     3

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999                    3

Part 2—Consequential amendments                                                                     20

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999                  20

Water Act 2007                                                                                                           60

Part 3—Transitional provisions                                                                               61

A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the environment, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Federal Environment Watchdog Act 2021 .

2   Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this Act

The day after the end of the period of 6 months beginning on the later of:

(a) the day this Act receives the Royal Assent; and

(b) the day the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated under an Act to the Department in which this Act is administered for payment to the Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

 

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.