Western Australian Current Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 50D

50D .         Regulations may require authorisation for conduct that might cause pollution or environmental harm

        (1)         In this section —

        authorisation means a licence, permit, approval or exemption granted, issued or given under the regulations;

        conduct affecting the environment means —

            (a)         causing or allowing anything to be discharged, emitted or transmitted; or

            (b)         causing or allowing the nature or volume of anything discharged, emitted or transmitted to be changed; or

            (c)         conduct, or an operation or activity, that is a potential cause of pollution or environmental harm; or

            (d)         causing or allowing conduct, or an operation or activity, that is a potential cause of pollution or environmental harm.

        (2)         If the regulations require an authorisation to be held for conduct affecting the environment, a person who contravenes the regulations by —

            (a)         engaging in that conduct without there being an authorisation in force in relation to it; or

            (b)         engaging in that conduct in contravention of a condition to which an authorisation is subject,

                commits an offence.

        (3)         Subsection (2) does not apply if a penalty for that contravention of the regulations is provided in the regulations.

        [Section 50D inserted: No. 54 of 2003 s. 37.]