Environment Protection (Declaration of Environmental Laws) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Brief 

The Schedule to the Environment Protection (Declaration of Environmental Laws) Regulations 2005 provides for enactments declared as environmental laws.  This Schedule has now been amended by the Environment Protection (Declaration of Environmental Laws) (Amendment) Regulations 2009, as per Government Notice No. 17 of 2009, which come into operation on 1st March 2009. 

The objective of the Environment Protection (Declaration of Environmental Laws) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 is to cater for amendments made following proclamation of the Environment Protection (Amendment) Act 2008 and promulgation of the Environment Protection (Control of Noise) Regulations 2008. 

Further to the proclamation of the Environment Protection (Amendment) Act 2008, the Noise Prevention Act 1938 and all regulations made under that Act were repealed and the Environment Protection (Control of Noise) Regulations 2008 were consequently promulgated to represent the single legislation to control noise which constitutes a nuisance. 

The Waste Water (Standards for Discharge of industrial effluent into a Waste Water System) Regulations 2004 have been included in the list of declared environmental law.

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