ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017 - SECT 41 Manner and form of notification

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017 - SECT 41

    (1)     If a person in management or control of land has a duty to notify of notifiable contamination in relation to the land, the person must give notice in a form approved by the Authority.

    (2)     The person must provide the following information to the Authority to the extent that the information is known to the person at the time of giving the notice—

        (a)     the location of the land;

        (b)     the activity resulting, or suspected as resulting, in the contamination;

        (c)     the nature and extent of the contamination;

        (d)     the nature of the risk of harm to human health and the environment from the contamination;

        (e)     any other prescribed information.

    (3)     The information required to be provided under subsection (2) is information that is known to a person at the time the person notifies the Authority.

    (4)     If any of the information required to be provided under subsection (2) is not known to a person at the time the person notifies the Authority, that information must be provided to the Authority in accordance with this section as soon as practicable after the person becomes aware of the information.

S. 42 inserted by No. 39/2018 s. 7 (as amended by Nos 27/2019 ss 12− 30, 3/2020 ss 42– 44, 47/2020 s. 26).