Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994
23AAEnvironmental monitoring information
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23AA Environmental monitoring information
[Section 23AA Inserted by No. 42 of 2022, s. 11, Applied:14 Dec 2022]
(1) In this section –
council-owned company means a company, incorporated under the Corporations Act, that is controlled by one or more councils or another company that is so controlled;
public authority means –
(a) an Agency, within the meaning of the State Service Act 2000 ; and
(b) the University of Tasmania; and
(c) the Police Service; and
(d) a council; and
(e) a statutory authority; and
(f) a body, whether corporate or unincorporate, that is established by or under an Act for a public purpose; and
(g) a body whose members, or a majority of whose members, are appointed by the Governor or a Minister of the Crown; and
(h) a Government Business Enterprise, within the meaning of the Government Business Enterprises Act 1995 ; and
(i) a council-owned company; and
(j) a State-owned company;
relevant information means information that –
(a) results from, or relates to, monitoring of the environmental effects of an activity, including but not limited to any of the following:
(i) the results of any type of test or measurement of any emissions, discharge or deposition of a substance;
(ii) reports as to the condition of the environment at the place where the activity occurs or that is in the proximity of that place;
(iii) any interpretation, or analysis, of such results or reports;