Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A constitutional corporation, the Commonwealth or Commonwealth agency must not take a nuclear action that has, will have or is likely to have a significant impact on the environment.
Civil penalty:
(a) for an individual--5,000 penalty units;
(b) for a body corporate--50,000 penalty units.
(2) A person must not, for the purposes of trade or commerce:
(a) between Australia and another country; or
(c) between a State and a Territory; or
take a nuclear action that has, will have or is likely to have a significant impact on the environment.
Civil penalty:
(a) for an individual--5,000 penalty units;
(b) for a body corporate--50,000 penalty units.
(3) A person must not take in a Territory a nuclear action that has, will have or is likely to have a significant impact on the environment.
Civil penalty:
(a) for an individual--5,000 penalty units;
(b) for a body corporate--50,000 penalty units.
(4) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) do not apply to an action if:
(a) an approval of the taking of the action by the constitutional corporation, Commonwealth agency, Commonwealth or person is in operation under Part 9 for the purposes of this section; or
(b) Part 4 lets the constitutional corporation, Commonwealth agency, Commonwealth or person take the action without an approval under Part 9 for the purposes of this section; or
(c) there is in force a decision of the Minister under Division 2 of Part 7 that this section is not a controlling provision for the action and, if the decision was made because the Minister believed the action would be taken in a manner specified in the notice of the decision under section 77, the action is taken in that manner; or
(d) the action is an action described in subsection
160(2) (which describes actions whose authorisation is subject to a special
environmental assessment process).