MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                  Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                          Chapter 8 General environmental offences
                                         Part 3B Offences relating to noise standards

                                                                            [s 440R]

              Note—
                 See section 493A (When environmental harm or related acts are
                 unlawful).
        (2)   A person does not contravene a noise standard by causing an
              environmental nuisance mentioned in schedule 1, part 1.


Division 3                  Default noise standards

440R Building work
        (1)   A person must not carry out building work in a way that
              makes an audible noise—
              (a)    on a business day or Saturday, before 6.30a.m. or after
                     6.30p.m; or
              (b)    on any other day, at any time.
        (2)   The reference in subsection (1) to a person carrying out
              building work—
              (a)    includes a person carrying out building work under an
                     owner-builder permit; and
              (b)    otherwise does not include a person carrying out
                     building work at premises used by the person only for
                     residential purposes.

440S Regulated devices
        (1)   This section applies to—
              (a)    a person carrying out an activity other than building
                     work; and
              (b)    a person carrying out building work, at premises used by
                     the person only for residential purposes, other than
                     under an owner-builder permit.
        (2)   A person must not operate a regulated device in a way that
              makes an audible noise—
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