264Noise control notices relating to premises

264 Noise control notices relating to premises

264 Noise control notices relating to premises

(1) This section applies to—

(a) the person who is the occupier of any premises, or

(b) the person who carries on or proposes to carry on an activity at any premises or who uses or operates or proposes to use or operate an article at any premises.

(2) The appropriate regulatory authority may, by notice in writing given to such a person, prohibit the person from causing, permitting or allowing—

(a) any specified activity to be carried on at the premises, or

(b) any specified article to be used or operated at the premises,

or both, in such a manner as to cause the emission from the premises at all times or on specified days, or between specified times on all days or on specified days, of noise that, when measured at any specified point (whether within or outside the premises), is in excess of a specified level.

(3) If, in a noise control notice, there is no reference to the times or days during or on which the prohibition imposed by the notice is to operate, the prohibition operates at all times.

(4) Nothing in this section affects the power under this Act to attach conditions to an environment protection licence.

s 264: Am 2005 No 96, Sch 1 [114].