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car park between Commonwealth Avenue and West Block, the service road between West Block and the car park and the tree-lined vista extending north on axis with the north elevation of A Block
      * Trees and landscape characteristics dating to the 1920s, including trees around the integral car park to the west of West Block
      * The Dugout, to the extent of fabric dating to the 1940s
      * The broadly symmetrical relationship with East Block located to the east side of the Land Axis

4.2                    Legislation

4.2.1               Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Australia)
EPBC Act provides a legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places.[105]  It is the principal legislation that applies to the management of West Block.
Under the Act, the owner or operator of the site is required to ensure that its Commonwealth Heritage values are protected.  An action that will have or is likely to have a significant impact on the environment requires approval from the Minister for the Environment and Energy.
Significant impact is defined as follows:
A 'significant impact' is an impact which is important, notable, or of consequence, having regard to its context or intensity.  Whether or not an action is likely to have a significant impact depends upon the sensitivity, value, and quality of the environment which is impacted, and upon the intensity, duration, magnitude and geographic extent of the impacts.  You should consider all of these factors when determining whether an action is likely to have a significant impact on matters of national environmental significance.[106]
An action may be:
      * a project
      * a development
      * an undertaking
      * an activity or a series of activities
      * or an alteration of any of these things.[107]
If a proposed action at West Block is likely to have a significant impact on the environment a referral must be made under Section 68 of the EPBC Act.  The Minister for the Environment and Energy will then decide whether there is a requirement for the action to be approved under the Act (Section 75 of the EPBC Act).

4.2.2               Commonwealth Heritage List
West Block and the Dugout at Block 3, Section 23 Parkes (part) is included in the CHL (ID 105428).  The citation for this listing is included in Appendix A and reproduced at Chapter 3.  As well as the site-specific values attributed to West Block, the citation acknowledges the significance of 'the location and appearance of West Block in relation to East Block, Old Parliament House and [the] Parliamentary Triangle and the Land Axis'.[108]  In this regard, there is alignment between the CHL entry for West Block and the Dugout and the CHL entry