Environmental Protection Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2014 (Qld)

Queensland Environmental Protection Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2014 Subordinate Legislation 2014 No. 57 made under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 Contents Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amendment of s 9 (Prescribed matters for EIS assessment report—Act, s 59(e)). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of s 51 (Matters to be complied with for environmental management decisions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of sch 1 (Matters to be addressed by assessment under EIS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 Amendment of sch 12 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Environmental Protection Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2014 [s 1] 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Environmental Protection Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2014 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the EnvironmentalProtectionRegulation 2008. 3 Amendment of s 9 (Prescribed matters for EIS assessment report—Act, s 59(e)) Section 9(2), definition matters of national environmental significance and editor’s note— omit 4 Amendment of s 51 (Matters to be complied with for environmental management decisions) Section 51(1)— insert — (d) consider the matters of national environmental significance. 5 Amendment of sch 1 (Matters to be addressed by assessment under EIS) Schedule 1, entry for Description, ‘matters protected by the controlling provisions for the project’— omit, insert — matters of national environmental significance 6 Amendment of sch 12 (Dictionary) (1) Schedule 12, part 2, definition relevant impacts — omit . (2) Schedule 12, part 2— Page 2 2014 SL No. 57

insert — Environmental Protection Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2014 [s 6] matters of national environmental significance means matters of national environmental significance mentioned in the Commonwealth Environment Act, chapter 2, part 3, division 1. Editor’s note — Commonwealth Environment Act, chapter 2 (Protecting the environment), part 3 (Requirements for environmental approvals), division 1 (Requirements relating to matters of national environmental significance) relevant impacts , for chapter 2 and schedule 1, means the impacts, including the potential for environmental harm— (a) for a project prescribed under section 4(a)—a project has or will have, or is likely to have, on the matter protected by a controlling provision for the project; or (b) for a project prescribed under section 4(b)—a project has or will have, or is likely to have, on the matters of national environmental significance. ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 8 May 2014. 2 Notified on the Queensland legislation website on 9 May 2014. 3 The administering agency is the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. © State of Queensland 2014 Authorised by the Parliamentary Counsel 2014 SL No. 57 Page 3