Environmental Management and Pollution Control Amendment Act 2001 (TAS)

Environmental Management and Pollution Control Amendment Act 2001

An Act to amend the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994

[Royal Assent 17 December 2001]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Amendment Act 2001 . 2CommencementThis Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3Principal ActIn this Act, the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 is referred to as the Principal Act. 4Section 48A insertedAfter section 48 of the Principal Act , the following section is inserted in Division 3: 48AMinister may revoke order of Appeal Tribunal (1)  The Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, may revoke an order of the Appeal Tribunal made under section 48 if – (a) the order has effect, at least in part, by reference to a quantitative value in respect of a particular matter; and (b) a different quantitative value is provided for in respect of that matter in a subsequent Act or other instrument of a legislative character. (2)  A notice under subsection (1)  – (a) may extend to an order of the Appeal Tribunal made before the commencement of this section; and (b) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 . (3)  This section does not apply to a temporary order of the Appeal Tribunal.

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 1 NOVEMBER 2001

Legislative Council on 20 NOVEMBER 2001]