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 1982 ;

                     (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 Quarantine Act 1908 ;

                     (h)  the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 .

This subsection does not limit this section.