Environment Protection Act 1993 (SA)

South Australia

Environment Protection Act 1993

An Act to provide for the protection of the environment; to establish the Environment Protection Authority and define its functions and powers; and for other purposes.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

This Act may be cited as the Environment Protection Act 1993.

1. (1)

   In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

activity includes the storage or possession of a pollutant;

administering agency—see Division 1A of Part 3;

air includes any layer of the atmosphere;

amenity value of an area includes any quality or condition of the area that conduces to its enjoyment;

appointed member, in relation to the Board, means a member appointed by the Governor;

appropriate person, in relation to the issuing of a site contamination assessment order or site remediation order, means the person who is the appropriate person under Part 10A to be issued with the order;

approved recovered resource—see section 4A;

associate—see subsection (2);

authorised officer means a person appointed to be an authorised officer under Division 1 of Part 10;

the Authority means the Environment Protection Authority established under Division 1 of Part 3;

background concentrations, in relation to chemical substances on a site or below its surface, means results obtained from carrying out assessments of the presence of the substances in the vicinity of the site in accordance with guidelines from time to time issued by the Authority;

beverage container approval means an approval for the purposes of Division 2 of Part 8;

Board means the Board of the Environment Protection Authority established as the governing body of the Authority under Division 1 of Part 3;

business includes a business not carried on for profit or gain and any activity undertaken by government or a public authority;

cause site contamination—see section 103D;

chemical substance means any organic or inorganic substance, whether a solid, liquid or gas (or combination thereof), and includes waste;

Chief Executive of the Authority means a person who is, for the time being, taken to be the Chief Executive of the Authority in accordance with section 14A;

clean-up authorisation means a clean-up authorisation issued under Division 4 of Part 10;

clean-up order means a clean-up order issued under Division 4 of Part 10;

climate change adaptation means any process of adjusting to the actual or expected effects of climate change;

climate change mitigation means measures or activities that relate to reducing the rate of climate change including (without limitation) by limiting, reducing or preventing greenhouse gas emissions;

coastal waters of the State means any part of the sea that is from time to time included in the coastal waters of the State by virtue of the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 of the Commonwealth;

condition includes a limitation;

contravene includes fail to comply with;

council means a council within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1999;

director of a body corporate includes a person…