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Environment Protection Act 1997
5Things taken to have impact causing environmental harm
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5 Things taken to have impact causing environmental harm
For this Act, a thing mentioned in the dictionary, definition of
pollutant, paragraphs (a) to (e) is taken to cause environmental harm
if—
(a) the measure of the pollutant entering the environment exceeds
the prescribed measure; or
(b) the pollutant entering the environment is a prescribed pollutant.