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Environmental Protection Act 1994
sec.319ASpecial provision for activities involving relevant industrial chemicals
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### sec.319A Special provision for activities involving relevant industrial chemicals
This section applies to a person carrying out an activity that involves a relevant industrial chemical.
The person is taken not to comply with the general environmental duty unless the person complies with any risk management measures for the chemical under a scheduling decision under the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Act 2021 (Cwlth) .
Subsection (2) —
does not limit the application of section 319 to the person; and
applies even if the person has otherwise taken all reasonably practicable measures to prevent or minimise environmental harm caused, or likely to be caused, by the activity.
s 319A ins 2023 No. 6 s 54
amd 2024 No. 30 s 14
(sec.319A-ssec.1) This section applies to a person carrying out an activity that involves a relevant industrial chemical.
(sec.319A-ssec.2) The person is taken not to comply with the general environmental duty unless the person complies with any risk management measures for the chemical under a scheduling decision under the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Act 2021 (Cwlth) .
(sec.319A-ssec.3) Subsection (2) — does not limit the application of section 319 to the person; and applies even if the person has otherwise taken all reasonably practicable measures to prevent or minimise environmental harm caused, or likely to be caused, by the activity.
- (a) does not limit the application of section 319 to the person; and
- (b) applies even if the person has otherwise taken all reasonably practicable measures to prevent or minimise environmental harm caused, or likely to be caused, by the activity.