Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003 (WA)

Western Australia

Environmental Protection Act 1986

Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003

Western Australia

Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003 Contents1. Citation 12 — Commencement3. Terms used 14. Prescribed licence conditions for premises discharging sulfur dioxide 25. Repeal 2NotesCompilation table 3Defined terms

Western Australia

Environmental Protection Act 1986

Environmental Protection Act 1986

Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003

1.Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the policy comes into operation.

3.Terms used

• (1)

  In these regulations —

policy means the Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Policy 2003 —

• (a)

  approved under the Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Policy Order 2003 (published in Gazette 18 March 2003, p. 799‑807); and

• (b)

  confirmed under the Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Policy Order (No. 2) 2003 (published in Gazette 10 June 2003, p. 2085‑92); and

• (c)

  set out in the Appendix to the order referred to in paragraph (b).

• (2)

  Unless the contrary intention appears, words and expressions defined in clause 2 of the policy and used in these regulations have the same respective meanings as they have in the policy.

[Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 22 Aug 2014 p. 3033.]

4.Prescribed licence conditions for premises discharging sulfur dioxide

• (1)

  For the purposes of section 62(2) of the Act, the condition set out in subregulation (2) is prescribed as a condition that may be attached to a works approval or licence.

• (2)

  The occupier must ensure that the operations on the premises are conducted in such a way as neither to cause, nor to contribute to causing, the maximum sulfur dioxide concentration permitted in the ambient air of a protected area under clause 6 of the policy to be exceeded at any place within the area.

[Regulation 4 amended: Gazette 22 Aug 2014 p. 3034.]

5.Repeal

The Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulphur Dioxide) Regulations 1992 are repealed.

Notes

1          This is a compilation of the Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Regulations 2003	18 Mar 2003 p. 806-7	18 Mar 2003 (see r. 2 and Gazette 18 Mar 2003 p. 799)
Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas) (Sulfur Dioxide) Amendment Regulations 2014	22 Aug 2014 p. 3033‑4	r. 1 and 2: 22 Aug 2014 (see r. 2(a)); Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 23 Aug 2014 (see r. 2(b))

Defined terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined term Provision(s)

policy............................................................................................................................. 3(1)