Commencement Proclamation (2017-609) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Protection of the Environment Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Act

2017 No 21

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 (2) of the Protection of the

Environment Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Act 2017, do, by this my Proclamation,

appoint 8 November 2017 as the day on which Schedule 3 [9] and [17] to that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 1st day of November 2017.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GABRIELLE UPTON, MP

Minister for the Environment

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence section 196 (2A) of the Protection of the Environment

Operations Act 1997, which provides that if entry to premises is effected by means of an unmanned vehicle,

vessel or aircraft, the vehicle, vessel or aircraft must be operated by or under the authority of an authorised
officer, and an amendment that inserts a definition of aircraft into the Act.