ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 19 Environmentally relevant activity may be prescribed

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 19

19 Environmentally relevant activity may be prescribed

(1) A regulation may prescribe an activity as an environmentally relevant activity if the Governor in Council is satisfied—

(a) that—

(i) a contaminant will or may be released into the environment when the activity is carried out; and

(ii) the release of the contaminant will or may cause environmental harm; or

(b) the activity will or may otherwise adversely affect an environmental value of the marine environment.

(1A) Without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation under that subsection may prescribe an activity carried out in a relevant Great Barrier Reef Marine Park area as an environmentally relevant activity.

(2) To remove any doubt, a regulation made under subsection (1) may not modify the definition of an agricultural ERA or a resource activity.

(3) In this section—


"Great Barrier Reef Marine Park" means the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (Cwlth) .


"relevant Great Barrier Reef Marine Park area" means an area—

(a) partly within the State and partly outside the State, but within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; or

(b) of which—

(i) part is within the State but not within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; and

(ii) part is outside the State but within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.