MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                                             Chapter 1 Preliminary
                                              Part 2 Object and achievement of Act

                                                                             [s 5]

        (6)   Phase 3 is achieved by—
              (a)    integrating environmental values into land use planning
                     and management of natural resources; and
              (b)    ensuring all reasonable and practicable measures are
                     taken to protect environmental values from all sources
                     of environmental harm; and
              (c)    monitoring the impact of the release of contaminants
                     into the environment; and
              (d)    requiring persons who cause environmental harm to pay
                     costs and penalties for the harm.
        (7)   Phase 4 is achieved by—
              (a)    reviewing the results of human activities on the
                     environment; and
              (b)    evaluating the efficiency       and     effectiveness     of
                     environmental strategies; and
              (c)    reporting publicly on the state of the environment.

5        Obligations of persons to achieve object of Act
              If, under this Act, a function or power is conferred on a
              person, the person must perform the function or exercise the
              power in the way that best achieves the object of this Act.

6        Community involvement in administration of Act
              This Act is to be administered, as far as practicable, in
              consultation with, and having regard to the views and interests
              of, industry, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders under
              Aboriginal tradition and Island custom, interested groups and
              persons and the community generally.




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