Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

COMMISSIONER FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ACT 1993

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   2A.     Notes  
   2B.     Objects of Act  
   3.      Entities not necessarily prescribed authorities  

   PART 2--OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER

   4.      Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment  
   5.      Term of office  
   7.      Leave of absence  
   9.      Suspension and removal of commissioner  
   10.     Retirement  
   11.     Delegation by commissioner  

   PART 3--FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF COMMISSIONER

   12.     Functions  
   13.     Complaints  
   14.     Discretion not to investigate certain complaints  
   14A.    Complaints made to agencies  
   14B.    Decision not to investigate complaint—annual reporting  
   15.     Investigations  
   16.     Power to enter premises  
   17.     Power to obtain information and documents  
   18.     Assistance to commissioner  

   PART 4--REPORTS

   19.     State of the environment report  
   20.     Information to be included in commissioner's annual report  
   21.     Special reports  
   22.     Minister to table reports and recommendations  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   23.     Information to be included in agency annual reports  
   24.     Commissioner not to be sued  
   25.     Referral to ombudsman  
   26.     Powers of Supreme Court  
   28.     Approved forms  
   29.     Regulation-making power  
           DICTIONARY
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