Queensland Numbered Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (POWERS AND PENALTIES) AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2024 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Other amendments

Environmental Protection Act 1994

1 Particular references to reasonably—

Each of the following provisions is amended by omitting ‘reasonably’—

†¢ section 48 (1)

• section 126C (1) (j)

• section 161 (5)

• section 286 (d)

• section 298 (2) (d)

• section 299 (1)

• section 309 (3) (b)

• section 312 (2) (d)

• section 318YM (1)

• section 318YV (1)

• section 322 (2)

• section 322A (2)

• section 326 (2)

• section 344 (3)

• section 391 (1)

• section 452 (3) (b)

• section 454 (4) (a)

• section 455 (2)

• section 460 (1) (f) and (g)

• section 507 (4)

• schedule 4 , definition prescribed responsible person , paragraph 2(a).

2 Sections 215(2)(j), 226A(1)(h) and 493A(2)(c), ‘protection order’—

omit, insert—
enforcement order issued under section 362(1)

3 Section 323(1)(b)(i)—

omit.

4 Section 323(1)(b)(ii) to (iv)—

renumber as section 323 (1) (b) (i) to (iii) .

5 Sections 326H(1)(c) and 520(1)(k) and schedule 4, definitions recipient, paragraph (b) and standard criteria, paragraph (g)(iii), ‘protection order’—

omit, insert—
enforcement order

6 Section 332(2)(e), ‘protection order issued to the person or public authority’—

omit, insert—
enforcement order issued to the person or public authority under section 362(1)

7 Sections 388(1)(b) and 408(1)(b)(iii), ‘a clean-up notice’—

omit, insert—
an environmental enforcement order issued under section 362(2)

8 Section 452(1)(a) and (k), ‘chapter 7, part 5B’—

omit, insert—
chapter 7, part 5

9 Section 520(1)(n), ‘direction notice, clean-up notice or’—

omit.

10 Section 521(14), ‘a clean-up notice’—

omit, insert—
an environmental enforcement order under section 362(2)(a)

11 Section 540(1)(f) to (h)—

omit, insert—

(f) environmental enforcement orders;

12 Schedule 4, definitions associated entity, financial interest, high risk company, interest and relevant activity, paragraph (d), ‘division 2, see section 363AA’—

omit, insert—
division 4, see section 369M

13 Schedule 4, definition contamination incident, ‘section 363F’—

omit, insert—
section 360

14 Schedule 4, definition cost recovery notice, ‘section 363N(1)’—

omit, insert—
section 369J

15 Schedule 4, definition environmental requirement, paragraph (c)—

omit, insert—

(c) an environmental enforcement order issued under section 362(2)(a); or

16 Schedule 4, definition rehabilitation direction, ‘, for chapter 5, part 10,’—

omit.

17 Schedule 4, definition related person, ‘division 2, see section 363AB’—

omit, insert—
see section 369N

18 Schedule 4, definition site management plan, ‘for chapter 7, part 8,’—

omit.

Environmental Protection Regulation 2019

1 Section 148, heading, ‘protection orders’—

omit, insert—
enforcement orders

2 Section 148, from ‘protection orders’ to ‘protection order’—

omit, insert—
enforcement orders the following documents or information for each environmental enforcement order

3 Section 148(b), before ‘the activity’—

insert—
if applicable,

4 Section 148(e)—

omit, insert—

(e) the relevant matter, within the meaning given by section 358 of the Act, for the order;

5 Section 165(4), definition compliance action event, paragraph (b), ‘protection order’—

omit, insert—
enforcement order

6 Section 165(4), definition compliance action event, paragraph (e)—

omit.

7 Section 165(4), definition compliance action event, paragraph (f), ‘section 363E, 363I or 363L of the Act,’—

omit, insert—
section 369I of the Act

8 Section 165(4), definition compliance action event, paragraph (g), ‘paragraph (f)’—

omit, insert—
paragraph (e)

9 Section 165(4), definition compliance action event, paragraphs (f) and (g)—

renumber as section 165 (4) , definition compliance action event , paragraphs (e) and (f).