57Modification of environmental impacts

57 Modification of environmental impacts

57 Modification of environmental impacts

(1) The responsible authority for a major event may declare that any person specified in the declaration may carry out such activities as are so specified, being activities that, in the opinion of the responsible authority, are necessary for, or ancillary to, or otherwise associated with the conduct of the major event, on such days during the major event period and during such hours as are so specified.

(2) The specification of a person or activity in a declaration may be by means of a class or description of persons or activities.

(3) A declaration may prohibit a person from causing, permitting or allowing the emission of noise from premises on which activities are carried out at a noise level which, when measured at any point outside the premises, exceeds a specified level. Such a prohibition may be enforced as if it were contained in a noise control notice issued under section 264 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.

(4) Before making a declaration, the responsible authority must consult with the Environment Protection Authority concerning the proposed terms of the declaration and must also take into consideration the noise impacts, or the likely noise impacts, of the activity or activities on residents.

(5) A declaration is to be published in the Gazette.

(6) A declaration takes effect on the day it is published in the Gazette or, if a later day is specified in the declaration for that purpose, on the later day so specified.

(7) A declaration has effect despite the terms of—

(a) the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 or any other Act, or

(b) any instrument made under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 or any other Act, or

(c) any approval, consent, licence, permission or any other form of authorisation given or granted under any such Act or instrument, or

(d) any trust, estate, interest, dedication, reservation, condition, restriction or covenant affecting the land specified in the declaration.