Clean Air Act 1961 Proclamation amending Act (1992-299) [GG No 72 of 19.6.1992] (NSW)

1992—No. 299

CLEAN AIR ACT 1961—PROCLAMATION

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 72 of 19 June 1992]

(L.S.) P. R. SINCLAIR, Governor.

I, Rear Admiral PETER ROSS SINCLAIR, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 5 (3) of the Clean Air Act 1961, do, by this my Proclamation, amend the Schedule to that Act by inserting in clause 1 in alphabetical order the following matter:

Biomedical waste treatment works, being works erected after 1 July 1992 or modified after 1 July 1992 in order to comply with a notice issued under section 17 or 20 of the Act (whether before or after that date), in which:

(a)	infectious or potentially infectious waste produced by health care establishments or pathology, medical, dental or veterinary practices or by laboratories is incinerated, disinfected, sterilised or subjected to thermal destruction; or
(b)	quarantine waste is incinerated, disinfected, sterilised or subjected

to thermal destruction; or

(c) cytotoxic waste is destroyed.

Signed and Sealed at Sydney, this 17th day of June, 1992.

By His Excellency's Command,

TIM MOORE

Minister for the Environment

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Clean Air Act 1961 requires certain scheduled premises to be licensed,

including premises used for facilities or works prescribed in the Schedule to that

Act.
The object of this Proclamation is to prescribe biomedical waste treatment works erected or modified after 1 July 1992 as facilities or works to which the licensing

and air pollution control requirements of Part 3 of that Act will apply.