Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

For the purpose of attaining the objects of this Act relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment, a determining authority in its consideration of an activity shall, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act or the provisions of any other Act or of any instrument made under this or any other Act, examine and take into account matters affecting or likely to affect the environment by reason of that activity.

For subsection (1), a determining authority may take into account the matters referred to in the subsection in a manner that is proportionate to the nature and risk of the activity.

Without limiting subsection (1), a determining authority shall consider the effect of an activity on any wilderness area (within the meaning of the Wilderness Act 1987) in the locality in which the activity is intended to be carried on.

(Repealed)