Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES ACT 2006

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY MATTERS

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Object of Act
   4.      Interpretation
   5.      Meaning of bioprospecting
   6.      Resource access provider
   7.      Meaning of biodiversity

   PART 2 - APPLICATION OF ACT

   8.      Act binds Crown
   9.      Where Act applies
   10.     Exemption for specified biological resources or collections

   PART 3 - PROCESS

           Division 1 - Application to take biological resources

   11.     Application for permit
   12.     Process in relation to permit
   13.     CEO to consider application
   14.     Assessment of applications
   15.     CEO may require further information

           Division 2 - If proposed activity comprises bioprospecting

   16.     If resource access provider is Territory
   17.     Matters CEO may consider
   18.     If no agreement is entered into
   19.     If resource access provider is not Territory
   20.     CEO to notify permit issuing authority
   21.     Permit issuing authority may issue permit
   22.     Permit details to CEO
   23.     Permit details in register

           Division 3 - Process after samples taken

   24.     When samples taken
   25.     Information to CEO
   26.     CEO to enter details in register

   PART 4 - BENEFIT-SHARING AGREEMENTs

   27.     Benefit-sharing agreement required
   28.     Informed consent
   29.     Benefit-sharing agreements
   30.     Retrospectively entering into benefit-sharing agreement
   31.     Details of benefit-sharing agreements in register
   32.     When benefit-sharing agreement comes into effect

   PART 5 - REGISTER AND CERTIFICATES OF PROVENANCE

           Division 1 - Register

   33.     CEO to maintain register
   34.     CEO to make some details from register available

           Division 2 - Certificates of provenance

   35.     Holder of rights to sample may request certificate
   36.     Certificate of provenance
   37.     Revocation of certificate of provenance

   PART 6 - OFFENCES

   38.     Bioprospecting without permit
   39.     Giving false information
   40.     Breach of permit conditions
   41.     Breach of benefit-sharing agreement

   PART 7 - MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

   42.     Bioprospector to keep records
   43.     Disposal of samples
   44.     No exclusive rights to biological resources
   45.     Pre-existing benefit-sharing agreements
   46.     Delegation
   47.     Regulations
           Endnotes