Minister may establish environment protection funds
136 Minister may establish environment protection funds
(1) The Minister may establish one or more environment protection funds in accordance with the regulations.
(2) The Minister must, by Gazette notice, specify the purposes of each fund.
(3) The purposes of an environment protection fund may include providing funds for any of the following:
actions taken in the event of an environmental emergency;
works for the remediation of environmental harm;
works for the rehabilitation of the environment;
works for the protection of the environment;
research into the environmental impacts of particular industries;
(f) research into the management of the environmental impacts of particular industries;
(g) other activities relating to protecting or enhancing the environment.
(4) Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may establish separate environment protection funds for different industries.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory statementSecond reading speech
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