CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 53D Annual returns and other notifications

CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 53D

53D Annual returns and other notifications

(1) A site auditor who is accredited for the whole or part of a return period must furnish the EPA with a return showing site audits commenced or completed during that period.

(2) The return must be furnished not later than the 31 July next following the end of the return period.

(3) The return must include particulars of a kind (if any) prescribed by the regulations in respect of each site audit mentioned in the return.

(4) A site auditor must, within 14 days of any material change in the circumstances of his or her employment or of any other change that may affect the site auditor's accreditation or work as an accredited site auditor, give the EPA notice in writing containing details of the change.

(5) Without limiting subsection (4), a site auditor must, within 14 days of any of the following matters occurring, give the EPA notice in writing of the details of the matter--

(a) any change to the site auditor's team,

(b) any change to the site auditor's professional indemnity insurance,

(c) the commencement of any legal or disciplinary action against the site auditor--

(i) in his or her professional capacity as a site auditor, or

(ii) in relation to the site auditor's work in relation to the management of actual or possible contamination of land, or

(iii) in relation to the site auditor's accreditation in another jurisdiction (including a condition or restriction placed on the accreditation),

(d) any other matter prescribed by the regulations.

(6) In this section--


"accreditation in another jurisdiction" includes the appointment, registration, licensing, approval, admission, certification (including by way of practising certificates), or any other form of authorisation, of a person required by or under legislation of another jurisdiction for the carrying out of audits relating to the actual or possible contamination of land.


"return period" means a year commencing on 1 July and ending on 30 June.


"site auditor's team" means those persons that the site auditor has identified, in his or her application for accreditation or renewal of accreditation or in a notice in writing given to the EPA, as providing expertise or technical resources to the site auditor.