AIR POLLUTION ACT 1984 (REPEALED) - SECT 23 23. (1) A person shall not operate, or cause or permit to be operated, any fuel-burning equipment or industrial plant, or carry on or permit the carrying on, of any trade, industry or process, on those premises so as to cause the emission into the air through a chimney on those premises of pollutants in excess of the prescribed standard of concentration or in excess of the prescribed rate.

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This legislation has been repealed.

AIR POLLUTION ACT 1984 (REPEALED) - SECT 23

23. (1) A person shall not operate, or cause or permit to be operated, any fuel-burning equipment or industrial plant, or carry on or permit the carrying on, of any trade, industry or process, on those premises so as to cause the emission into the air through a chimney on those premises of pollutants in excess of the prescribed standard of concentration or in excess of the prescribed rate.

(2) A person shall not use, or cause or permit to be used, on those premises, a fuel that contains more than the prescribed proportion of a prescribed constituent unless the fuel is used in prescribed fuel-burning equipment.

(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an indictable offence punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding—

(a) in the case of a body corporate—$50,000; or

(b) in the case of a natural person—$10,000.

Minimising emissions

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