Environmental Protection Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1996 (WA)

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

(No. 4) 1996

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

Citation

l. These regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection

Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1996.

Principal regulations

2.      In these regulations the Environmental Protection Regulations 198P are

referred to as the principal regulations.

[* Reprinted as at 4 December 1995.1

Regulation 11 amended

3.      Regulation 11 (1) of the principal regulations is amended -

by inserting after "13," the following -

by insertin before the definition of "licensed premises" the

following	de f	inition -
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"approved site" means a landfill site -

(a)	set apart by a local government under section 119 of the Health Act 1911;
(b)	licensed under Part V of the Act; or
(C)	approved by the Chief Executive ORcer; n.

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" paragraph (c) of ";

by deleting the full stop a t the end of the definition of "tyre" and

substituting a semicolon; and

by inserting after the definition of "tyre" the following

definitions -

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"Tyre Landfill Exclusion Zone" means the ar!a

comprising the local government districts specified m
Schedule 4;

"tyre retailer" means a person who carries on a business which principally consists of the sale of tyres b retail or the fitting of tyres, or a combination o r those activities.

Regulation 12 amended

4.      Regulation 12 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a) by inserting after "For the purposes of' the following -

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(b) by inserting after "section 3" the following -

" (1) "; and

(C)	by deleting "kind of pollutionn and substituting the following -
" alteration of the environment ".

Regulation 13A inserted

5.      After regulation 13 of the principal regulations the following regulation

is inserted -

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Tyre retailer not t o damage used tyres

13A. (1) A tyre retailer shall not, except in accordance with written

approval given by the Chief Executive OAicer -

(a)	cut or otherwise damage a used tyre; or
(b)	cause or permit a used tyre to be cut or otherwise damaged,

in such a manner as to render the tyre unsuitable for retreading.

Penalty:  $200.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1) the Chief Executive

Officer may ve ap roval subject to such conditions specified in the

approval as tl$. ~ h i e f ~ x e c u t i v e OAicer thinks fit. n

Regulation 14 amended

6.     Regulation 14 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a)	by inserting after the regulation designation "14." the subregulation designation "(1)";
(b)	by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph -

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(b)

by the method described in subregulation (2) a t an

approved site located -

(i)	in the Tyre Landfill Exclusion Zone if the written approval of the Chief Executive Oficer has first been obtained; or
(ii)	in an local overnment district outside the Tyre Endfill fxclusion Zone;

(C)	in paragraph (c) by inserting before "any other method" the following -
(d)	by inserting the following subregulation -

(2) For the purposes of subre lation (1) (b) t es may

be disposed of by burial under a inal soil cover o not less	P	F
than 500 mm -

pieces;

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(b) in batches separated from each other b a t

least 100 mm of soil and each consisting o not	B
more than 1 000 whole tyres; or

(C) in the case of tyres in an volume or number in

a dump existin	Jecember 1992, a t the
location of that f 2 p P 4

in accordance with such conditions as are imposed by the Chief Executive Oficer in respect of that burial for the purpose of ensurin that drainage, safety, soil erosion and soil stability at, an% in the vicinity of, the site of that burial are adequately controlled. n

Schedule 3 amended

7.      Schedule 3 to the rinci a1 regulations is amended in item l (t) by

inserting after ''to be useias' ' tRe following -

" used ".

Schedule 4 added

8.      After Schedule 3 to the principal regulations the following Schedule is

added -

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SCHEDULE 4

[regulation 11 (l)]

TYRE LANDFILL EXCLUSION ZONE

PART 1 - METROPOLITAN

Armadale	Fremantle	Rockingham
Bassendean	Gosnells	Ser entine-
Ba swater	Kalamunda	Qarrahdale

Be mont r Kwinana South Perth

Cambridge	Melville	Stirling
Canning	Mosman Park	Subiaco
Claremont	Mundaring	Swan

Cockburn	Nedlands	Victoria Park
Cottesloe	Pep ermint Grove	Vincent
East Fremantle	Pert	%	Wanneroo

PART 2 - COUNTRY

Beverley	Northam (Shire)
Boddington	Tood ay
Brookton	wan$ering
Chittering	York n

Recommended by the Environmental Protection Authority

R. STEEDMAN, Chairman,

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.