Western Australian Current Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 51I

51I .         Some kinds of conditions

        (1)         A condition may specify activities that are authorised, or not authorised, by the clearing permit.

        (2)         The following list sets out things that the holder of a clearing permit can be required to do (at the expense of the holder) under conditions attached to the clearing permit —

            (a)         take specified measures for the purpose of —

                  (i)         preventing, or minimising the likelihood of, environmental harm; or

                  (ii)         controlling or abating environmental harm either generally or in accordance with specified criteria;

            (b)         establish and maintain vegetation on other land in order to directly or indirectly offset the loss of the cleared vegetation;

            (c)         contribute moneys to be used for the purpose of establishing or maintaining vegetation on other land;

            (ca)         give an environmental undertaking in relation to specified other land;

            (cb)         arrange for an environmental protection covenant to be given by a specified person other than the permit holder in relation to specified other land;

            (d)         monitor operations (including abatement operations) and environmental harm, conduct analysis of monitoring data, and provide reports on monitoring data, and analysis of it, to the CEO;

            (e)         investigate options for measures for preventing, controlling or abating environmental harm;

            (f)         conduct environmental risk assessment studies;

            (g)         provide reports on audits and studies, including audit compliance reports, to the CEO;

            (h)         prepare, implement and adhere to environmental management systems, environmental management plans and environmental improvement plans;

                  (i)         have something required to be done under a condition done by a person of a class approved by the CEO;

            (j)         do something required to be done under a condition —

                  (i)         within a specified period or before a specified date; or

                  (ii)         in a specified form or manner.

        (2A)         If a condition of a clearing permit requires the holder of the permit to give or arrange the giving of an environmental undertaking as referred to in subsection (2)(ca) or (cb), the condition can require that the holder of the permit not cause or allow clearing on any land on which clearing is authorised by the permit until the environmental undertaking is given.

        (3)         Without limiting subsection (2) paragraph (d), a condition referred to in that paragraph can require the holder of a clearing permit to carry out a specified monitoring programme for the purpose of supplying the CEO with information relating to the nature and extent of any impacts or potential impacts the activities under the permit may have on the environment or any environmental value.

        (4)         In this section —

        establish includes conserve;

        give includes enter into;

        other land means land other than land cleared under the clearing permit;

        specified means specified by the CEO in the clearing permit concerned.

        [Section 51I inserted: No. 54 of 2003 s. 110(1); amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 48.]