New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1991 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"Authority" means the Environment Protection Authority constituted by this Act.
"Board" means the Board of the Authority established under this Act.
"criminal or related proceedings" means any proceedings for an offence against the environment protection legislation or any proceedings under Division 4 of Part 8.2 and Part 8.4 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 .
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Environment Protection Authority holding office as such under Part 2 of the Public Sector Management Act 1988 .
"environment" means components of the earth, including:

(a) land, air and water, and

(b) any layer of the atmosphere, and

(c) any organic or inorganic matter and any living organism, and

(d) human-made or modified structures and areas,

and includes interacting natural ecosystems that include components referred to in paragraphs (a)-(c).
"environment protection" includes anything which furthers the objectives of the Authority as set out in section 6.
"environment protection legislation" means the following Acts (and the regulations and other instruments made under those Acts):

This Act,

Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 ,

Dangerous Goods (Road and Rail Transport) Act 2008 ,

Environmental Trust Act 1998 ,

Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985 ,

Ozone Protection Act 1989 ,

Pesticides Act 1999 ,

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 ,

Radiation Control Act 1990 ,

Recreation Vehicles Act 1983 ,

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001 .

"public authority" means a public or local authority constituted by or under any Act and includes:

(a) a government department or administrative office, and

(b) a member of staff or other person who exercises functions on behalf of a public authority.

(2) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority, responsibility and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(3) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.