Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 - SECT 12D

             (1)  If, after the commencement of this Part:

                     (a)  a person or organisation proposes to carry on an activity in the Territory; or

                     (b)  a person or organisation in relation to whom this Act applies outside Australia proposes to carry on an activity in an area of the Antarctic other than the Territory;

the person or organisation proposing to carry on the activity (the proponent of the activity ) must:

                     (c)  make, or cause to be made, a preliminary assessment of the impact (if any) that the activity is likely to have on the environment; and

                     (d)  give a written report of the assessment to the Minister.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  after the commencement of this Part, a change is proposed, or occurs, in an activity ( original activity ) that was being carried on immediately before the commencement of this Part; or

                     (b)  a change is proposed, or occurs, in an activity ( original activity ) that is authorised to be carried on under this Part;

the activity as proposed to be changed, or as changed, is to be treated, for the purposes of subsection (1), as being a new activity (different from the original activity) that a person or organisation proposes to carry on.