MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                 Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                                            Chapter 1 Preliminary
                                                               Part 3 Interpretation

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Subdivision 4               Environmentally relevant activities

18       Meaning of environmentally relevant activity
              An environmentally relevant activity is—
              (a)    an agricultural ERA as defined under section 75; or
              (b)    a resource activity as defined under section 107; or
              (c)    another activity prescribed under section 19 as an
                     environmentally relevant activity.

19       Environmentally relevant activity may be prescribed
              A regulation may prescribe an activity, other than an
              agricultural ERA or a resource activity, as an environmentally
              relevant activity if the Governor in Council is satisfied—
              (a)    a contaminant will or may be released into the
                     environment when the activity is carried out; and
              (b)    the release of the contaminant will or may cause
                     environmental harm.


Subdivision 5               Environmental management

21       Best practice environmental management
        (1)   The best practice environmental management of an activity
              is the management of the activity to achieve an ongoing
              minimisation of the activity’s environmental harm through
              cost-effective measures assessed against the measures
              currently used nationally and internationally for the activity.
        (2)   In deciding the best practice environmental management of
              an activity, regard must be had to the following measures—
              (a)    strategic planning by the person carrying out, or
                     proposing to carry out, the activity;


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