Protection of the Environment Administration (Amendment) Act 1993 (NSW)

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ADMINISTRATION

(AMENDMENT) ACT 1993 No. 40

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title

2. Commencement

3. Amendment of Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 No. 60

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ADMINISTRATION

(AMENDMENT) ACT 1993 No. 40

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 40, 1993

An Act to amend the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 with respect to the environmental assessment of the granting of certain licences and certificates of registration by the Environment Protection Authority. [Assented to 8 June 1993]

Protection of the Environment Administration (Amendment) Act 1993 No. 40

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

1.        This Act may be cited as the Protection of the Environment

Administration (Amendment) Act 1993.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the date of assent.

Amendment of Protection of the Environment Administration Act

1991 No. 60

3. The Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 is

amended by inserting after section 12 the following section:

Environmental assessment

12A. ( l ) The Authority is not a determining authority within the meaning of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 in respect of an approval (within the meaning of that Part) under the environment protection legislation that consists of the renewal of a licence or the renewal of a certificate of registration.

(2) This section applies in respect of such an approval in force (or purporting to be in force) at the commencement of this section or granted after the commencement of this section.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

Legislative Assembly on 19 May 1993 Legislative Council on 21 May 1993]