Victorian Numbered Acts

REGULATORY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (REFORM) ACT 2025 (NO. 14 OF 2025)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF ADOPTION ACT 1984

           Division 1--Disclosure of adoption records in authorised circumstances

   3.      New section 83A inserted  

           Division 2--Disclosure of adoption information to family members

   4.      New section 97A inserted  

           Division 3--Discretion not to disclose adoption information in certain circumstances

   5.      New section 90A inserted  

           Division 4--Access to adoption records kept by Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages

   6.      Register of Adoptions not open for search  
   7.      New section 79C inserted  

           Division 5--Consequential amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996

   8.      Registrar's general functions  
   9.      Access to Register  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005

   10.     Secretary may authorise principal officer of Aboriginal agency to act  
   11.     New section 637 inserted  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY (WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING) ACT 2021

   12.     Civil penalty order  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF COMMISSIONER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ACT 2003

   13.     The Commissioner  

   PART 6--AMENDMENT OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS ACT 1994

           Division 1--Amendments relating to notifications to Councils and penalties

   14.     Notification of Council  
   15.     Notification of Council in relation to menacing dog  
   16.     Notifications  
   17.     Council to provide information about owners of dangerous, menacing or restricted breed dogs  
   18.     New section 44AGA inserted  
   19.     Seized dog or cat must be delivered up  
   20.     Power to serve infringement notice  

           Division 2--Other amendments

   21.     New section 5G inserted  
   22.     Minister's power to delegate  
   23.     New section 58AKA inserted  
   24.     New section 63RA inserted  
   25.     Minister may declare an organisation to be a declared bird organisation  
   26.     Statue law revision  

   PART 7--AMENDMENT OF ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2000

   27.     Commission to determine one or more rates for purchases of small renewable energy generation electricity  
   28.     Section 40NC repealed  
   29.     New section 123 inserted  

   PART 8--AMENDMENT OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017

   30.     Surrender or revocation of permissions on application  
   31.     Registration of prescribed activities  
   32.     Liability of owners and drivers of vehicles in relation to littering of waste  
   33.     Specified considerations to which Authority must have regard  
   34.     Review of refusal to release financial assurance—notice of intention  
   35.     Redirection of obligations to officers  
   36.     Conditions of office for Governing Board members  
   37.     Vacancies, resignations and removal from office  
   38.     Proceedings of the Governing Board  
   39.     New section 368A inserted  

   PART 9--AMENDMENT OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 2001

   40.     New section 54IA inserted  

   PART 10--AMENDMENT OF HOUSING ACT 1983

   41.     Schedule 8—Register of Housing Agencies  

   PART 11--AMENDMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES LEGISLATION

           Division 1--Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990

   42.     Commencement  
   43.     Renewals of licences  
   44.     Surrender of licence  
   45.     Cancellation of licence  
   46.     Prohibition of work near dwellings and certain places and sites  
   47.     Compensation agreement  
   48.     Determination of compensation disputes  

           Division 2--Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Amendment Act 2023

   49.     Approval of variation of work plan  
   50.     Cancellation of an extractive industry work authority  
   51.     Section 133 substituted and new section 133A inserted  
   52.     New Schedule 10 inserted  

   PART 12--AMENDMENT OF SERVICE VICTORIA ACT 2018

   53.     New section 17 inserted  
   54.     Regulations  

   PART 13--AMENDMENT OF SUBDIVISION ACT 1988

   55.     Regulations  

   PART 14--AMENDMENT OF TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1958

   56.     Registrar's requirements for conveyancing transactions  
   57.     Assurance contributions  
   58.     New section 108A inserted  
   59.     Regulations  

   PART 15--AMENDMENT OF WATER ACT 1989

   60.     Preparation of corporate plan  
   61.     Variation of corporate plan during operation of plan  
   62.     Special meetings  

   PART 16--REPEAL OF THIS ACT

   63.     Repeal of this Act  
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