Victorian Current Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017 - SECT 24

    (1)     This section sets out a simplified outline of this Chapter.

    (2)     Part 3.2 provides for the general environmental duty in relation to risks of harm to human health and the environment from pollution and waste and an offence for aggravated breach of the general environmental duty.

    (3)     Part 3.3 provides for a transitional duty in relation to material harm.

    (4)     Part 3.4 provides for duties relating to pollution incidents.

    (5)     Part 3.5 provides for duties in relation to the management and notification of contaminated land.

Pt 3.2 (Heading and ss 25– 27) 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).

Part 3.2—General environmental duty

New s. 25 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).