Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsideration of Decisions) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Colbeck
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-10-08
- second reading — 2024-10-08
- second reading — 2025-02-12
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsideration of Decisions) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Put the question — 2025-02-12, Senate: negative, ayes 30, noes 31
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-10-08.
The bill would add time limits and eligibility rules to the process for revisiting environmental approval decisions under the EPBC Act.
It would allow anyone other than a state or territory minister to ask for a decision to be reconsidered only within 36 months of that decision, after which only the relevant state or territory minister could make such a request.
The explanatory memorandum does not specify what happens to requests made after the 36-month period or how the new limits interact with the existing three criteria for changing a decision.
- Set a 36-month deadline for non-ministerial requests to reconsider a decision.
- Restrict the right to request reconsideration after 36 months to the relevant state or territory minister.
- Amend the EPBC Act to introduce these time and eligibility limits.
People and organisations seeking to challenge environmental decisions under the EPBC Act, and state and territory ministers.
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