Queensland Numbered Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (POWERS AND PENALTIES) AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2024

- As at 18 June 2024
- Act 30 of 2024

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 2 - AMENDMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994

   3.      Act amended
   4.      Amendment of s 4 (How object of Act is to be achieved)
   5.      Amendment of s 6 (Community involvement in administration of Act)
   6.      Insertion of new s 6A
   7.      Amendment of s 8 (Environment)
   8.      Amendment of s 9 (Environmental value)
   9.      Amendment of s 16 (Material environmental harm)
   10.     Amendment of s 17 (Serious environmental harm)
   11.     Amendment of s 24 (Effect of Act on other rights, civil remedies etc.)
   12.     Amendment of s 219 (Decision on proposed amendment)
   13.     Amendment of s 319 (General environmental duty)
   14.     Amendment of s 319A (Special provision for activities involving relevant industrial chemicals)
   15.     Insertion of new s 319B
   16.     Insertion of new ch 7, pt 1, div 1A
   17.     Amendment of s 320A (Application of div 2)
   18.     Amendment of s 320B (Duty of particular employees to notify employer)
   19.     Amendment of s 320C (Duty of other persons to notify particular owners and occupiers)
   20.     Amendment of s 320D (Duty of employer to notify particular owners and occupiers)
   21.     Amendment of s 320DA (Duty of owner, occupier or auditor to notify administering authority)
   22.     Amendment of s 320DB (Duty of local government to notify administering authority)
   23.     Amendment of s 326B (When environmental investigation required—environmental harm)
   24.     Amendment of s 326BA (When environmental investigation required—contamination of land)
   25.     Insertion of new ch 7, pt 3, div 3, sdiv 1, hdg
   26.     Insertion of new ch 7, pt 3, div 3, sdivs 2 and 3
   27.     Amendment of ch 7, pt 5, hdg (Environmental protection orders)
   28.     Replacement of ch 7, pt 5, div 1 (General)
   29.     Renumbering of ch 7, pt 5, divs 1A–2
   30.     Amendment and renumbering of s 363AA (Definitions for division)
   31.     Renumbering of s 363AB (Who is a related person of a company)
   32.     Amendment and renumbering of s 363ABA (Decision whether to issue an order)
   33.     Amendment and renumbering of s 363AC (Order may be issued to related person)
   34.     Amendment and renumbering of s 363AD (Order may be issued to related person of high risk company)
   35.     Amendment and renumbering of s 363AE (Order may provide for joint and several liability)
   36.     Omission of ss 363AF–363AJ
   37.     Omission of ch 7, pts 5A–5C
   38.     Insertion of new s 440A
   39.     Amendment of s 458 (Order to enter land to conduct investigation or conduct work)
   40.     Amendment of s 478 (Failure to comply with authorised person’s direction in emergency)
   41.     Amendment of s 490 (Evidentiary provisions)
   42.     Amendment of s 491 (Special evidentiary provision—particular emissions)
   43.     Amendment of s 491A (Further special evidentiary provisions for noise)
   44.     Amendment of s 516 (Delegation by chief executive)
   45.     Amendment of s 539D (Stay of particular decisions if unacceptable risk of environmental harm)
   46.     Amendment of s 539E (Stay of decision to issue a clean-up notice)
   47.     Amendment of s 548A (Guidelines about issuing particular environmental protection orders)
   48.     Amendment of s 551 (Codes of practice)
   49.     Amendment of s 579D (Confidentiality of information—generally)
   50.     Insertion of new ch 12, pt 4D
   51.     Insertion of new ch 13, pt 32
   52.     Amendment of sch 2 (Original decisions)
   53.     Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary)

   PART 3 - AMENDMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATION 2019

   54.     Regulation amended
   55.     Amendment of s 130 (Environmental nuisance)
   56.     Amendment of s 137 (Issuing particular notices and orders)
   57.     Omission of s 187 (Approval of guidelines about issuing particular environmental protection orders—Act, s 548A)
   58.     Amendment of sch 8 (Environmental objective assessment)

   PART 4 - AMENDMENT OF STATE PENALTIES ENFORCEMENT REGULATION 2014

   59.     Regulation amended
   60.     Amendment of sch 1 (Infringement notice offences and fines for nominated laws)

   PART 5 - OTHER AMENDMENTS

   61.     Legislation amended
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