Authorizations issued under the Environment Protection Act 1997 for activities posing environmental risk in the Australian Capital Territory. The register includes columns for Status, Activity, AuthorisationNo, PartyName, Date, Suburb, and CeaseExpiryDate. Data is provided by the ACT government and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in authorization issuance and expiry using the Date and CeaseExpiryDate fields.
- Map authorized activities by geographic area using the Suburb column for spatial analysis.
- Track the regulatory status of entities over time by linking PartyName with Status and Date.
- Identify common types of regulated activities by categorizing and counting entries in the Activity column.
Strengths
- Includes 8 structured columns per record for detailed analysis.
- Data is current, with a last update date in April 2026.
- Provides direct links to legal documents via the PDF column.
Limitations
- Unknown total record count prevents assessment of dataset scale.
- Spatial coverage is limited to the Australian Capital Territory, restricting broader geographic analysis.
- Data completeness for historical records is unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- www.data.act.gov.au
- Collection Method
- Mandatory public register compiled under the Environment Protection Act 1997.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Australian Capital Territory