National Environment Protection Council Act 1994

The Council may vary or revoke any national environment protection measure.

If the Council intends to vary or revoke a national environment protection measure, the Council must publish a notice specifying the measure that the Council intends varying or revoking.

The notice must:

be published in the Gazette; and

so far as each participating State or Territory is concerned—also be published, on at least 2 days during the month when the Gazette notice is published, in a newspaper circulating in that State or Territory.

Sections 15, 17, 18 and 19 apply to a variation or revocation of a national environment protection measure as if:

a reference to making a national environment protection measure were a reference to a variation or revocation of a national environment protection measure, as the case may be; and

a reference to a national environment protection measure were a reference to the variation or revocation of such a measure, as the case may be; and

a reference to a proposed national environment protection measure were a reference to a proposed variation or proposed revocation of such a measure, as the case may be; and

the reference in section 17 to the day on which paragraph 16(2)(b) has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions were a reference to the day on which paragraph (3)(b) of this section has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions.

Subsections (2) to (4) do not apply to a minor variation of a national environment protection measure under Division 2A.