Western Australian Current Regulations

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS 1987 - REG 16B

16B .         Burning vegetation etc. on development sites in Sch. 5A areas restricted

                A person who, in an area prescribed in Schedule 5A, burns, or causes or allows to be burned, vegetation or other matter on or from a development site commits an offence unless —

            (a)         the person is a public authority and the burning is done in the exercise of a function conferred by a written law; or

            (b)         the burning is carried out for agricultural purposes.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        [Regulation 16B inserted: Gazette 19 Dec 2000 p. 7284.]

        [Heading inserted: Gazette 5 Jan 2001 p. 115.]