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Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Professional Engineers) Determination 2025

I, Chris Steel, Minister for Planning and Sustainable Development, make the following determination.

Dated 11 February 2025

Chris Steel

Minister for Planning and Sustainable Development, Australian Capital Territory

Contents

1 Name...................................................1

2 Commencement............................................1

3 Authority................................................1

4 Simplified outline of this instrument................................1

5 Definitions...............................................2

6 Notification requirement.......................................2

1 Name

This instrument is the Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Professional Engineers) Determination 2025.

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		6 March 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 This will generally mean that this instrument will be repealed on the first 1 April or 1 October falling on or after the tenth anniversary of the registration of the instrument on the Federal Register of Legislation.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 mentioned in the Professional Engineers Act 2023 of the Australian Capital Territory authorised to be carried on under a registration under that Act.

local registration authority means the Australian Capital Territory Professional Engineers Registrar established under the Professional Engineers Act 2023 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.