Lakes Act 1976
8Relationship to environmental and health laws
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8 Relationship to environmental and health laws (1) This Act must be construed and administered in a way that is consistent with an environmental law or a health law unless the contrary intention appears from this Act or that law. (2) This Act is taken to be consistent with an environmental law or a health law to the extent that it is capable of operating concurrently with that law. (3) In this section: environmental law means a territory law that has the protection of the environment as one of its objects or purposes. health law means a territory law that has the protection of public health as one of its objects or purposes.