Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Amendment (Bush Fire Hazard Reduction) Regulation 2007 (NSW)

2007 No 14

New South Wales

Protection of the Environment

Operations (Clean Air) Amendment
(Bush Fire Hazard Reduction)

Regulation 2007

under the

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.

BOB DEBUS, M.P.,

Minister for the Environment

Explanatory note
At present under the Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Regulation 2002, the carrying out of bush fire hazard reduction work is exempt from the provisions relating to the control of burning. The object of this Regulation is to provide instead that:

(a)	the carrying out of emergency bush fire hazard reduction work under the Rural Fires Act 1997 is exempt from the provisions relating to the control of burning, and
(b)	burning anything under the authority of, and in accordance with, a bush fire hazard reduction certificate issued under the Rural Fires Act 1997 is exempt from the offence provisions relating to burning in the open or in incinerators.

This Regulation is made under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, including section 323 and Schedule 2 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 11 of 19 January 2007, page 168	Page 1
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Clause 1	Fire Hazard Reduction) Regulation 2007

Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Amendment (Bush Fire Hazard Reduction) Regulation 2007

under the

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean
Air) Amendment (Bush Fire Hazard Reduction) Regulation 2007.

2 Amendment of Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Regulation 2002

The Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Regulation
2002 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Fire Hazard Reduction) Regulation 2007
Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 6B Application of Part

Omit clause 6B (a). Insert instead:

(a) the carrying out of emergency bush fire hazard reduction work (within the meaning of the Rural Fires Act 1997),

[2]      Clause 6F Exemptions

Insert at the end of clause 6F (1) (c):

, or

(d) to burn anything under the authority of, and in accordance with, a bush fire hazard reduction certificate issued under the Rural Fires Act 1997.

BY AUTHORITY