MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                   Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                   Chapter 4A Great Barrier Reef protection measures
                                 Part 2 Requirements for carrying out agricultural ERAs

                                                                                 [s 79]

              Note—
                 Noncompliance with an accredited ERMP is not, in itself, an offence.
                 However, the noncompliance may be the subject of a direction notice.
                 See section 363B.


Subdivision 2               Conditions to prevent
                            over-fertilisation

79       Application of sdiv 2
              This subdivision applies to a person carrying out an
              agricultural ERA.

80       Working out optimum amount
        (1)   The person must work out the optimum amount of nitrogen
              and phosphorus that can be applied to soil on the relevant
              agricultural property.
        (2)   The working out must use the results of soil tests required
              under section 81.
        (3)   A regulation may prescribe a methodology for working out
              the optimum amount.
        (4)   If a prescribed methodology applies for the application of
              nitrogen or phosphorus to soil on the property, the optimum
              amount must be worked out under the methodology.

81       Soil testing
        (1)   The person must cause—
              (a)    soil tests of the relevant agricultural property to be
                     carried out to test the characteristics of the soil to allow
                     the optimum amount to be worked out; and
              (b)    reports to be prepared for each of the tests that shows its
                     results.


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