Air Pollution (Amendment) Act 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Air Pollution (Amendment) Act 1994

No. 22 of 1994

An Act to amend the Air Pollution Act 1984

[Notified in ACT Gazette S87: 20 May 1994]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Air Pollution (Amendment) Act 1994.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Air Pollution Act 1984.1

Sale of solid fuel-burning equipment

4.  Section 24A of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “has been issued in relation to it” and substituting “under subsection (3) has been issued in relation to equipment of the same type”; and

(b)by omitting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:

“(3)  For the purposes of paragraph (1) (b), an authorised person or body may certify, in relation to solid fuel-burning equipment of a particular type, that—

(a)equipment of that type has been tested (whether by that person or body, or by another person or body) in accordance with the test procedure specified in AS 4013; and

(b)the authorised person or body is satisfied that the equipment tested had an appliance particulate emission factor not greater than the maximum allowable particulate emission factor specified in section 7 of AS 4013.”. 

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 1 March 1993.  See also Acts Nos. 44, 74 and 92, 1993.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on  21 April 1994]

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