Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Environmental Infringement Notices) Amendment Regulations 2007

Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Environmental Infringement Notices) Amendment Regulations 2007

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 .

6 August 2007

W. J. E. COX

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

PAULA WRIEDT

Minister for Tourism, Arts and the Environment

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Environmental Infringement Notices) Amendment Regulations 2007 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which the Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Distributed Atmospheric Emissions) Regulations 2007 take effect.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Environmental Infringement Notices) Regulations 2006 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Schedule 2 amended (Prescribed offences)

Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting item 1 from Part 2 and substituting:

1.    Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Distributed Atmospheric Emissions) Regulations 2007

Regulation	Penalty (penalty units)
5(1)	10
5(3)	5
8(1)	5
8(2)	5
9(3)	2
10(1)	5
11(1)	5
11(2)	5

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 15 August 2007

These regulations are administered in the Department of Tourism, Arts and the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Environmental Infringement Notices) Regulations 2006 by –

(a) omitting provisions of the Environment Protection (Domestic Solid Fuel Burning Appliances) Regulations 1993 as offences in relation to which a person may accept an environmental infringement notice; and

(b) inserting provisions of the Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Distributed Atmospheric Emissions) Regulations 2007 as offences in relation to which a person may accept an environmental infringement notice.