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Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2015.

Country/Territory
Australia
Territorial subdivision
Australian Capital Territory
Document type
Legislation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to apply as a law of the Territory a national law relating to water efficiency labelling and standards, and for other purposes.
Subject
Water
Keyword
Water conservation zone Water supply Offences/penalties
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Entry into force notes
This Act enters into force on 3 March 2015.
Abstract

The object of this Act, consisting of 24 sections divided into seven Parts and completed by one Schedule, is to adopt in the Territory a uniform national approach to the regulation of water efficiency labelling and standards. This Act (a) applies the Commonwealth water efficiency laws as a law of the Territory; and (b) makes provision to enable the Commonwealth water efficiency laws and the applied provisions to be administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth. The Act is divided as follows: Preliminary (Part 1); Applied provisions (Part 2); Functions under applied provisions (Part 3); Offences (Part 4); Administrative laws (Part 5); Miscellaneous (Part 6); Repeal and transitional (Part 7). Schedule deals with the Modifications––Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cwlth).

Full text
English
Website
www.legislation.act.gov.au

References - Legislation

Repeals

Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Act No. A2005-10).

Legislation | Australia | 2005 (2011)

Keyword: Water conservation zone, Water supply

Source: FAO, FAOLEX