Northern Territory Numbered Acts

BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES ACT 2006 (NO 31 OF 2006)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY MATTERS

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Object of Act  
   4.      Interpretation  
   5.      Meaning of bioprospecting  
   6.      Resource access provider  
   7.      Meaning of biodiversity  

   PART 2--APPLICATION OF ACT

   8.      Act binds Crown  
   9.      Where Act applies  
   10.     Exemption for specified biological resources or collections  

   PART 3--PROCESS

           Division 1 -- Application to take biological resources

   11.     Application for permit  
   12.     Process in relation to permit  
   13.     CEO to consider application  
   14.     Assessment of applications  
   15.     CEO may require further information  

           Division 2 -- If proposed activity comprises bioprospecting

   16.     If resource access provider is Territory  
   17.     Matters CEO may consider  
   18.     If no agreement is entered into  
   19.     If resource access provider is not Territory  
   20.     CEO to notify permit issuing authority  
   21.     Permit issuing authority may issue permit  
   22.     Permit details to CEO  
   23.     Permit details in register  

           Division 3 -- Process after samples taken

   24.     When samples taken  
   25.     Information to CEO  
   26.     CEO to enter details in register  

   PART 4--BENEFIT-SHARING AGREEMENTS

   27.     Benefit-sharing agreement required  
   28.     Informed consent  
   29.     Benefit-sharing agreements  
   30.     Retrospectively entering into benefit-sharing agreement  
   31.     Details of benefit-sharing agreements in register  
   32.     When benefit-sharing agreement comes into effect  

   PART 5--REGISTER AND CERTIFICATES OF PROVENANCE

           Division 1 -- Register

   33.     CEO to maintain register  
   34.     CEO to make some details from register available  

           Division 2 -- Certificates of provenance

   35.     Holder of rights to sample may request certificate  
   36.     Certificate of provenance  
   37.     Revocation of certificate of provenance  

   PART 6--OFFENCES

   38.     Bioprospecting without permit  
   39.     Giving false information  
   40.     Breach of permit conditions  
   41.     Breach of benefit-sharing agreement  

   PART 7--MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

   42.     Bioprospector to keep records  
   43.     Disposal of samples  
   44.     No exclusive rights to biological resources  
   45.     Pre-existing benefit-sharing agreements  
   46.     Delegation  
   47.     Regulations