Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COUNCIL ACT 1994 - SECT 20

(1)

The Council may vary or revoke any national environment protection measure.

(2)

If the Council intends to vary or revoke a national environment protection measure, the Council must publish a notice specifying the measure that the Council intends varying or revoking.

(3)

The notice must:

(a)

be published in the Gazette ; and

(b)

so far as each participating State or Territory is concerned—also be published, on at least 2 days during the month when the Gazette notice is published, in a newspaper circulating in that State or Territory.

(4)

Sections 15, 17, 18 and 19 apply to a variation or revocation of a national environment protection measure as if:

(a)

a reference to making a national environment protection measure were a reference to a variation or revocation of a national environment protection measure, as the case may be; and

(b)

a reference to a national environment protection measure were a reference to the variation or revocation of such a measure, as the case may be; and

(c)

a reference to a proposed national environment protection measure were a reference to a proposed variation or proposed revocation of such a measure, as the case may be; and

(d)

the reference in section 17 to the day on which paragraph 16(2)(b) has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions were a reference to the day on which paragraph (3)(b) of this section has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions.

(5)

Subsections (2) to (4) do not apply to a minor variation of a national environment protection measure under Division 2A.