Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Driller's Licence) Determination 2021 I, Shane Rattenbury, Minister for Water, Energy, and Emissions Reductions make the following determination. Dated 25 June 2021 Shane Rattenbury Minister for Water, Energy, and Emissions Reductions, Australian Capital Territory Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Simplified outline of this instrument 5 Definitions 6 Notification requirement 1 Name This instrument is the Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Driller's Licence) Determination 2021. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument At the same time as the Mutual Recognition Amendment Act 2021 of the Commonwealth commences. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument. 3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 42J(4) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth. 4 Simplified outline of this instrument The purpose of this instrument is to require a person to notify a local registration authority before the person begins to rely on automatic deemed registration under the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth to carry on an activity in the Australian Capital Territory to which the determination is to apply. Unless revoked earlier, this instrument will sunset under section 50 of the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth (see subsection 42J(5) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth). This will generally mean that this instrument will be repealed on the first 1 April or 1 October falling on or after the tenth anniversary of the registration of the instrument on the Federal Register of Legislation. 5 Definitions In this instrument: Act means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth. covered activity means an activity authorised to be carried on under a driller's licence under the Water Resources Act 2007 of the Australian Capital Territory. local registration authority means the Environment Protection Authority established under the Environment Protection Act 1997 of the Australian Capital Territory. 6 Notification requirement For subsection 42J(4) of the Act, a person intending to carry on a covered activity in the Australian Capital Territory must notify the local registration authority before the person begins to carry on the activity.