Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989 No. 6 of 1990 - SECT 6

6. For the purposes of this Act:
  (a)   action is begun under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals)
Act 1974 in relation to an import proposal or export proposal, or a varied
import proposal or varied export proposal, when the Minister administering
that Act:

   (i)  under procedures approved under section 6 of that Act, directs the
        submission to that Minister of an environmental impact statement, or a
        public environment report, in relation to the proposal or varied
        proposal, or any aspect of it; or

   (ii) under section 11 of that Act, directs that an inquiry be conducted in
        relation to the proposal or varied proposal, or any aspect of it; and

   (b)  the procedures required by that Act because of that action are
        completed when procedures under that Act in connection with the
        environmental impact statement, public environment report or inquiry
        are completed.