MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                                        Chapter 12 Miscellaneous
                                                  Part 4B Protocols and standards

                                                                         [s 579B]

        (2)   The Minister’s decision made on 8 March 2007 to grant the
              application is taken to have been validly made under chapter
              5.
        (3)   The environmental authority as amended under the decision is
              taken to have been issued under chapter 5 on 22 March 2007.




Part 4B                     Protocols and standards

579B Protocols
        (1)   A protocol is a procedure to be followed in—
              (a)    developing or carrying out a monitoring program; or
              (b)    taking samples; or
              (c)    making tests or measurements; or
              (d)    preserving or storing samples; or
              (e)    performing analyses on samples; or
              (f)    performing statistical analysis of the results of sample
                     analyses and interpreting the results of the analyses; or
              (g)    reporting the results and interpretation of the analyses;
                     or
              (h)    developing or applying a predictive model; or
              (i)    carrying out a risk assessment to predict or estimate the
                     risk of adverse effects of contamination on human
                     health or another part of the environment; or
              (j)    assessing the toxic characteristics of an element,
                     compound or combination of compounds.
        (2)   If this Act provides that, in a particular case, a thing is to be
              done under a protocol, without identifying a particular
              protocol, then the thing must be done under—


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