Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-12-01. Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-11-04
- second reading — 2025-11-05
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- committee — 2025-11-06
- third reading — 2025-11-06
- introduced — 2025-11-24
- second reading — 2025-11-24
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- committee — 2025-11-27
- third reading — 2025-11-27
- passed — 2025-11-27
- royal assent — 2025-12-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-10-30.
This bill creates several fees for activities under Australia's main environmental law, which are tied to changes proposed in another bill.
The fees would apply to approvals, registrations, and exemptions, with the amounts to be set by regulations rather than in the bill itself.
The money collected would go into a special account to fund environmental restoration work, and the bill also names who must pay each fee.
- It imposes a fee on approvals that require a restoration contribution.
- It imposes a fee for registering a priority action under a bioregional plan.
- It imposes fees for national interest and Part 13 exemptions.
- It directs the fees to a new special account for environmental restoration.
- It leaves the fee amounts to be determined by regulations.
- It specifies the persons liable for each fee.
Approval holders, people registering priority actions, and those seeking exemptions under the EPBC Act.
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