Regulating for Sustainability : Property Issues

All Australian governments recognize the need to ensure that land and natural resources are used sustainably. In this context, ‘resources’ includes natural resources found on land such as trees and other vegetation, fauna, soil and minerals, and cultural resources found on land such as archaeological sites and artefacts. Regulators use a wide range of techniques to promote sustainability. To achieve their objectives, they may, for example, create economic incentives through bounties, grants and subsidies, encourage the development of self-regulatory codes, or enter into agreements with landowners specifying how the land is to be managed. A common way of regulating is by making administrative orders, determinations or decisions under powers given to regulators by Acts of Parliament (statutes) or by regulations (delegated legislation). Generally the legislation provides for specified rights or duties, and authorises a regulator to make an order or decision to apply the legislative provisions to particular land or cases. For example, legislation might empower a regulator to make an order that requires the owner of a contaminated site to remediate it. When the regulator exercises the power by making an order in relation to particular land, the owner is placed under a statutory duty to remediate. When regulators exercise their statutory powers to manage the use of private land or natural or cultural resources on private land, property law issues can arise. The owner of land has a private property right that the law will enforce against anybody else who interferes with the enjoyment of the right, without legal authority to do so. The law dealing with the enforcement of private property rights forms part of private law. This report focuses on the relationship between the law of private property and the regulation of land and resources by legislation and by administrative decisions made under powers given by legislation (statutory powers).

Government community service contracts : restraining abuse of power

The use of grant contracts to deliver community services is now a significant feature of all Australian government administrations. These contracts are the primary instrument governing the provision of such services to citizens and are largely outside the usual parliamentary review mechanisms and constraints. This article examines the extent of the erosion of fundamental constitutional principles facilitated by the use of private contracts, by applying the principles used in scrutiny of delegated legislation to standard form federal and State community service contracts. It reveals extensive executive power which, if the relationship were founded in legislative instruments rather than in private contract, would have to be justified to Parliament at least and possibly not tolerated.

Coleção das leis da República Federativa do Brasil.

Description based on: Vol. 184, no. 8 (agosto 1992).

Recopilación de leyes y decretos de Venezuela.

T. 6 includes: Leyes y decretos de Colombia vigentes en Venezuela.

S. 219--Regulatory Transition Act of 1995 : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on S. 219 ... February 22, 1995.

"To ensure economy and efficiency of federal government opertions by establishing a moratorium on regulatory rulemaking actions, and for other purposes"

Recueil des lois, décrets, ordonnances et règlements = Verzameling der wetten, decreten, ordonnanties en verordeningen.

Published: Bruxelles : Impr. de Weissenbruch (1830-1844).

Colección de leyes, decretos, acuerdos y resoluciones.

Vols. for 1824/26-1827/30 called 2d ed.

Igazśágügyi javaslatok tára : az igazságügyi közlöny melléklapja /

Latest issue consulted: 13. évf., 11. sz. (dec. 16, 1913).

Department rules /

Updated irregularly.

Illinois regulations.

A summary of proposed rules appearing in Illinois register which may effect small businesses.

Title 35, environmental protection.

Mode of access: Internet.

Title 68, professions and occupations.

On cover: Rules for the administration of the Illinois Architecture Act.

Title 8, Agriculture and animals.

On cover: Definitions (section 20.1).

Ordenanzas dictadas por la Cámara Provincial de Bogotá en sus sesiones de 1848

69 p.