Protection of the Environment Operations (Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2005 (NSW)

2005 No 751

New South Wales

Protection of the Environment

Operations (Hunter River Salinity
Trading Scheme) Amendment

Regulation 2005

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
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Protection of the Environment Operations
(Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme) Regulation 2002 for law revision purposes.

This Regulation:

(a)	updates references to the Hunter Catchment Management Trust, which was abolished by the Catchment Management Authorities Act 2003 and replaced by the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority, and
(b)	updates and removes references to the Department of Land and Water Conservation, which has also been abolished, and
(c)	makes it clear that 2 nominees of the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority may be appointed to the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme Operations Committee.

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

Published in Gazette No 142 of 25 November 2005, page 9740	Page 1
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Protection of the Environment Operations (Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2005

under the

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Protection of the Environment Operations (Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2005.

2 Amendment of Protection of the Environment Operations (Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme) Regulation 2002

The Protection of the Environment Operations (Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme) Regulation 2002 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 70 Appointment of Operations Committee

Omit clause 70 (2) (a). Insert instead:

(a) 1 person who is a member of the board of the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority or a person nominated by that Authority,

[2]      Clause 70 (2) (e)

Insert “(who may be a member of the board of the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Authority, or a person nominated by that Authority, who is additional to the member or person referred to in paragraph (a))” after “Hunter River Catchment”.

[3]      Clause 70 (2) (f)

Omit the paragraph. Insert instead:

(f) 1 person who is an officer or employee of the Department of Natural Resources, appointed on the nomination of the head of that Department.

[4]      Dictionary

Omit the definition of lower sector reference point. Insert instead:

lower sector reference point means the Hunter River gauging
station number 210001 at Singleton.

[5]      Dictionary, definition of “middle sector reference point”

Omit the definition. Insert instead:

middle sector reference point means the Hunter River gauging station number 210127 immediately upstream of the confluence of the Hunter River and Glennies Creek.

[6]      Dictionary, definition of “upper sector reference point”

Omit the definition. Insert instead:

upper sector reference point means the Hunter River gauging station number 210055 upstream of the confluence of the Hunter River and the Goulburn River at Denman.

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