Imposes a general environmental duty to minimise risks of harm from pollution and waste in Victoria.
8
Rules extracted
90
Obligations decomposed
11.3x
Avg obligations per rule
🇦🇺 Australia
Jurisdiction
Victoria's Environment Protection Act 2017 replaced the 1970 Act and shifted from a reactive, licence-based approach to a prevention-based regime underpinned by the General Environmental Duty (GED). The GED requires all persons engaging in activities that may give rise to risks of harm to human health or the environment from pollution or waste to minimise those risks so far as reasonably practicable. The Act introduces a three-tiered permissions framework (licences, permits, registrations), contaminated land management duties, environmental audit requirements, and significant penalties including up to $3.2 million for body corporates and 5 years imprisonment for individuals for aggravated offences.
Source
1
Regulation
Extracted
8
Rules
Decomposed
90
Obligations
Decomposition ratio
Each rule is decomposed into an average of 11.3 atomic obligations — the smallest testable units that can be independently violated.
Fully extracted & scored
All 90 obligations have been decomposed, titled, risk-scored, and embedded for semantic matching.
Every obligation in EP Act 2017 (Vic) is scored across independent risk dimensions:
Obligation Weight
How critical within the regulatory framework
Violation Likelihood
How often breached in practice
Enforcement Evidence
Regulator enforcement history and penalties
Cascade Dependency
How many obligations depend on this one
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