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Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
322Effect of this Act on other rights, remedies and proceedings
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322 Effect of this Act on other rights, remedies and proceedings
322 Effect of this Act on other rights, remedies and proceedings
(1) This Act does not limit or affect any right, remedy or proceeding under any other Act or law.
(2) No proceedings taken under this Act interfere with or lessen any right or remedy under any other Act or law, but no person is, by virtue of this subsection, liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
(3) A reference in this section to a right includes, for example, a right to restrict or prevent, or obtain damages in respect of, pollution.