Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Environment Protection Act 1970 - SECT 18

Content of Orders

18. Content of Orders



(1) State environment protection policy shall establish the basis for
maintaining environmental quality sufficient to protect existing and
anticipated beneficial uses in the area affected by the Order and in
particular shall include in terms sufficiently clear to give an adequate basis
for planning and licensing functions-

   (a)  the boundaries of any area affected;

   (b)  identification of the beneficial uses to be protected;

   (c)  selection of the environmental indicators to be employed to measure
        and define the environmental quality;

   (d)  a statement of the environmental quality objectives (where
        practicable); and

   (e)  the program if any by which the stated environmental quality
        objectives are to be attained and maintained including, where
        appropriate, the specification of-

   (i)  maximum quantities and qualities of waste permitted to be discharged
        to the environment;

   (ii) maximum levels of noise permitted to be emitted to the environment;

   (iii) minimum standards for the installation and operation of works or
        equipment for the control of waste or noise from specified sources or
        classes of premises; and

   (iv) measures designed to minimize the possibility of the occurrence of
        pollution.

(2) Waste management policy is to include in terms sufficiently clear to give
an adequate basis for planning and licensing functions-





   (a)  the objectives of the waste management policy;



   (b)  the substances, circumstances and regions to which the waste
        management policy is to apply; and

   (c)  the time by which or period during which the waste management policy
        is to be in force.