Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (SEA DUMPING) AMENDMENT ACT 1993 No. 16 of 1994 - SECT 9

9. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting after subsection (5) the following subsection:

"(5A) A permit for dumping or loading must not be granted in respect of any
wastes or other matter to which Annex I to the SPREP Protocol applies except
if, in the Minister's opinion, there is an emergency posing an unacceptable
risk relating to human health and admitting of no other feasible solution.";

   (b)  by inserting after subsection (6) the following subsection:

"(6A) In considering the granting of a permit for incineration at sea of
wastes or other matter not listed in Annex I or II to the Convention, the
Minister must have regard to any treaty or other convention to which Australia
is a party that relates to the incineration at sea of those wastes or that
other matter.";

   (c)  by inserting in subsection (10) "or the SPREP Protocol, as the case
requires," after " Convention,".