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Acts administered by OEH

The Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) has responsibilities and functions under the following NSW environmental legislation. Some of these responsibilities and functions are exercised in the name of the Environment Protection Authority or the Botanic Gardens Trust.

Under each Act name, there are links to the full text of the Act (from the NSW legislation website) and, where available, further information relevant to the operation of the Act and to Regulations made under that Act.

Brigalow and Nandewar Community Conservation Area Act 2005
Summary | Full Text

Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust Act 1983
Summary | Full text

Coastal Protection Act 1979
Summary | Full text| Regulation

Contaminated Land Management Act 1997
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about contaminated land

Crown Lands Act 1989
Note: so far as it relates to the Crown Reserve known as Jenolan Caves Reserves, and the land dedicated for the public purpose of accommodation house D590137, in the Parishes of Jenolan, Bombah and Bouverie, Counties of Westmoreland and Georgiana (remainder, the Minister for Sport and Recreation, the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Lands)
Full text l Regulation

Dangerous Goods (Road and Rail Transport) Act 2008
Summary | Full text

Energy and Utilities Administration Act 1987
Note: OEH only administers Part 6A of this Act in so far as it relates to water and water utilities and section 40(1A), and s45 in so far as it relates to Part 6A and section 40(1A).
Summary | Full text | Regulation

Environmental Trust Act 1998
Summary | Full text

Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about chemicals

Filming Approval Act 2004
Summary | Full text | More about filming and photography

Forestry and National Park Estate Act 1998
Summary | Full text

Forestry Restructuring and Nature Conservation Act 1995
Summary | Full text

Forestry Revocation and National Park Reservation Act 1996
Summary | Full text

Forestry Revocation and National Parks Reservation Act 1983
Summary | Full text

Forestry Revocation and National Parks Reservation Act 1984
Summary | Full text

Heritage Act 1977
Summary | Full text | Regulation

Historic Houses Act 1980
Summary | Full text

Lane Cove National Park (Sugarloaf Point Additions) Act 1996
Summary | Full text 

Lord Howe Island Act 1953
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about Lord Howe Island: Department of Environment and Water Resources and Lord Howe Island Marine Park

Lord Howe Island Aerodrome Act 1974
Summary | Full text 

Marine Parks Act 1997 (jointly administered with Department of Primary Industries)
Summary | Full text | Regulation |More about marine parks

National Environment Protection Council (New South Wales) Act 1995
Summary | Full text 

National Park Estate (Lower Hunter Region Reservations) Act 2006
Summary | Full text

National Park Estate (Reservations) Act 2002
Summary | Full text

 National Park Estate (Reservations) Act 2003
 Summary | Full text

National Park Estate (Reservations) Act 2005
  Summary | Full text 

National Park Estate (Riverina Red Gum Reservations) Act 2010
Summary | Full Text

National Park Estate (South-Western Cypress Reservations) Act 2010
 Summary | Full Text

National Park Estate (Southern Region Reservations) Act 2000
 Summary | Full text

National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
Summary | Full text | Regulation |More about protected areas and  Aboriginal ownership provisions in the National Parks and Wildlife Act       

National Parks and Wildlife (Adjustment of Areas) Act 2005
Summary | Full text

Native Vegetation Act 2003
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about Native Vegetation

Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001
Summary | Full text

Ozone Protection Act 1989
Summary | Full text | More about air

Parramatta Park (Old Government House) Act 1967
Summary | Full text

Parramatta Park Trust Act 2001 
Summary | Full text | Regulation

Pesticides Act 1999
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about pesticides

Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991
Summary | Full text | Regulation 

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
Summary | Full text | Regulations | More about air, wood smoke, emissions trading,  noise, penalty notices, and  waste

Radiation Control Act 1990
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about radiation

Recreation Vehicles Act 1983
Summary | Full text

Roads Act 1993
Note: so far as it relates to Lord Howe Island (remainder, the Minister for Roads, the Minister for Local Government, and the Minister for Lands)
Full Text l Regulation

Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Act 1980
Summary | Full text | Regulation | More about Botanic Gardens Trust

Soil Conservation Act 1938
Summary | Full text

Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995
Summary | Full text | Regulations | More about threatened species

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001
Summary | Full text

Western Sydney Parklands Act 2006
Summary | Full text | Regulation

Wilderness Act 1987
Summary | Full text