Victorian Current Acts

SUSTAINABILITY VICTORIA ACT 2005 - SECT 3

In this Act—

S. 3. def. of Alpine Resort Management Board inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"Alpine Resort Management Board" has the same meaning as Board has in section 3 of the Alpine Resorts (Management) Act 1997 ;

S. 3. def. of Auditor-General inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"Auditor-General "has the same meaning as in the Audit Act 1994 ;

"Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under section 15;

S. 3. def. of commercially-sensitive information inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"commercially-sensitive information" means information that relates to matters of a business, commercial or financial nature, the disclosure of which would be likely to unreasonably expose a person to disadvantage;

S. 3. def. of council inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"council" has the same meaning as Council has in section 3(1) of the Local Government Act 2020 ;

S. 3. def. of de-identified inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"de-identified", in relation to personal, commercially-sensitive or confidential information, means no longer relating to an identifiable individual or an individual who can be reasonably identified;

S. 3. def. of Department amended by No. 20/2014 s. 33.

"Department" means the Department of Environment and Primary Industries;

S. 3. def. of Environment Protection Authority inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"Environment Protection Authority" has the same meaning as Authority has in section 3(1) of the Environment Protection Act 2017 ;

S. 3. def. of government agency inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"government agency" means—

        (a)     the Environment Protection Authority; or

        (b)     a council; or

        (c)     the Municipal Association of Victoria within the meaning of the Municipal Association Act 1907 ; or

        (d)     an Alpine Resort Management Board; or

        (e)     the Head, Recycling Victoria; or

        (f)     a public sector body prescribed to be a government agency; or

        (g)     a public sector body of another State, a Territory or the Commonwealth prescribed to be a government agency;

S. 3. def. of Head, Recycling Victoria inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"Head, Recycling Victoria" has the same meaning as in the Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Act 2021 ;

S. 3. def. of IBAC inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"IBAC" has the same meaning as in the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 ;

"member" means a member of Sustainability Victoria;

S. 3. def. of Ombudsman inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"Ombudsman" means the person appointed as the Ombudsman under section 3 of the Ombudsman Act 1973 ;

S. 3. def. of personal information inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"personal information" has the same meaning as in the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 ;

"renewable energy" includes energy which comes from sources such as the sun, wind, waves, tides, the hydrological cycle, biomass and geothermal sources;

"resource efficiency" means using water, energy and materials more productively so as to ease demand pressures on our limited natural resources;

"Secretary" means the person who is the Department Head of the Department within the meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004 ;

"Sustainability Victoria" means Sustainability Victoria established by section 5;

S. 3. def. of Victorian Inspectorate inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

"Victorian Inspectorate" has the same meaning as in the Victorian Inspectorate Act 2011 ;

S. 3. def. of waste amended by Nos 39/2018 s. 56(1), 36/2022 s. 76(b).

"waste" has the same meaning as it has in section 3(1) of the Environment Protection Act 2017 ;

S. 3. def. of waste, recycling or resource recovery service inserted by No. 36/2022 s. 76(a).

waste, recycling or resource recovery service has the same meaning as in Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Act 2021 .