Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00598:section:11
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Provision Reference: s 11
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11  Simplified outline of this Chapter
  The following is a simplified outline of this Chapter:

      This Chapter provides a basis for the Minister to decide whether an action that has, will have or is likely to have a significant impact on certain aspects of the environment should proceed.
      It does so by prohibiting a person from taking an action without the Minister having given approval or decided that approval is not needed. (Part 9 deals with the giving of approval.)
      Approval is not needed to take an action if any of the following declare that the action does not need approval:
             (a) a bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth and the State or Territory in which the action is taken;
             (b) a declaration by the Minister.
      Also, an action does not need approval if it is taken in accordance with Regional Forest Agreements or it is for a purpose for which, under a zoning plan for a zone made under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975, the zone may be used or entered without permission.

Part 3—Requirements for environmental approvals

Division 1—Requirements relating to matters of national environmental significance

Subdivision A—World Heritage