Waste Management and Pollution Control Act 1998

An environment protection objective may specify, or incorporate by reference, any of the following:

a goal, standard, guideline or protocol as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time;

that a feature or use of the environment or a part of the environment is to be protected;

an environmental indicator that can be used to define and measure environmental quality;

a result necessary or desirable to be achieved by an action in order to effectively manage waste or assess, prevent, reduce, control, rectify or clean up pollution or environmental harm resulting from pollution;

indicators, criteria or methods to be used in evaluating practices for waste management or the assessment, prevention, reduction, control, rectification or clean up of pollution or environmental harm resulting from pollution;

requirements to be considered in determining whether an action is to be taken or whether an instrument of a legislative or administrative character is to be made, varied or revoked under this

requirements to be considered in determining the conditions to which an environment protection approval or a licence may be subject.

An environment protection objective may specify any of the following:

that a person who contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of the objective is guilty of an environmental offence level 2, 3 or

that an offence against a provision of the objective is a regulatory offence.