Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COUNCIL ACT 1994 - SECT 14

(1)

The Council may, by instrument in writing, make a measure, to be known as a national environment protection measure, that relates to any one or more of the following:

(a)

ambient air quality;

(b)

ambient marine, estuarine and fresh water quality;

(c)

the protection of amenity in relation to noise (but only if differences in environmental requirements relating to noise would have an adverse effect on national markets for goods and services);

(d)

general guidelines for the assessment of site contamination;

(e)

environmental impacts associated with hazardous wastes;

(f)

the re-use and recycling of used materials;

(g)

except as provided in subsection (2), motor vehicle noise and emissions.

(2)

Noise and emission standards relating to the design, construction and technical characteristics of new and in-service motor vehicles may only:

(a)

be developed and agreed in conjunction with the National Transport Commission; and

(b)

be determined in accordance with the National Transport Commission Act 2003 and, where appropriate, the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 .

(3)

National environment protection measures must each comprise one or more of the following:

(a)

a national environment protection standard;

(b)

a national environment protection goal;

(c)

a national environment protection guideline;

(d)

a national environment protection protocol.