Environmental Protection Amendment Regulations 1994 (WA)

2374 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [10 June 1994

EP301 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

1994

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council on the recommendation of the Environmental Protection Authority.

Citation

(a) premises on which there is carried out any activity for commercial purposes that causes, or is likely to cause, or contribute to, pollution of any waters, air or land; and 1,

1.      These regulations may be cited as the Environrnental Protection Amendment

Regulations 1994.

Principal regulations

2.      In these regulations the Environmental Protection Regulations 1987* are

referred to as the principal regulations.

f* Published in the Gazette of 20 February 1987 at pp. 444-9.

For amendments to 21 March 1994 see 1992 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 66 and Gazettes of 13 July, 24 September, 19 November and 31 December 1993.1

Regulation 4 amended

3.      Regulation 4 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting paragraph

(a) and "and" following that paragraph and substituting the following - fg

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Regulation 5 amended

4.      Regulation 5 (2) of the principal regulations is amended -

(a) in paragraph (a) by inserting after "in the case of premises referred

it to in regulation 4 (a)" the following -

on which there is carried out any activity for commercial purposes that causes, or is likely to cause, or contribute to, pollution of any waters

and

(b)	after paragraph (a) (iii) by deleting "or" and substituting the
following - 44

(ab) in the case of premises referred to in regulation	4 (a) on which there is carried out any activity for commercial purposes that causes, or is likely to
cause, or contribute to, pollution of any air or land, a fee of $120 per annum; and

Schedule 1 amended

5.      Schedule 1 to the principal regulations is amended in item 1 -

(a) by deleting "or" at the end of paragraph (b);

(b) by deleting the full stop at the end of paragraph (c) and substituting the following -

;or ";and

(c) after paragraph (c) by inserting the following paragraph -

on which there is a biomedical waste incinerator,

(d) in which -

(i)	infectious or potentially infectious waste produced by health care establishments, or by pathology, dental, or veterinary practices, or by laboratories, is incinerated;
(ii)	quarantine waste is incinerated; or
(iii)	cytotoxic waste is destroyed,

but not including premises on which there are only facilities used exclusively for human or

animal cremation.

Schedule 3 amended

6.      Schedule 3 to the principal regulations is amended -

(a)	in item 1 by deleting subitem (s); and
(b)	by inserting after item 3 the following item -

4.PREMISES ON WHICH THERE ARE BIOMEDICAL WASTE INCINERATORS -

processing not more than 100 tonnes

perannum ............................................ 80

processing more than 100 tonnes per annum but not more than 500 tonnes per annum............................................160

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processing more than 500 tonnes per annum but not more than 2 000

tonnes per annum	320
processing more than 2 000 tonnes
per annum	800

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.

Approved at the Out of Session EPA Meeting No. 1 of 22 March 1993 and confutned at

EPA Meeting No. 592 on 7 April 1994.

R. K STEEDMAN, Chairman,

Environmental Protection Authority.