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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1588 ..

Mr Speaker, this Bill contains various provisions consequential to the Environment Protection Bill 1997, including repeal of the five Acts that are to be replaced by the Environment Protection Bill. This Bill also includes provisions concerning the transition of environment protection administration from the old regulatory framework to the new.

I should highlight several features of this Bill.

The Bill amends the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991 to require the Environment Management Authority to be notified of development applications that have the potential for significant environmental harm. This is designed to ensure that environment protection considerations are properly taken into account in planning and land management applications.

The transitional provisions in the Bill are based on a model of preserving the effect of licences and other instruments issued under legislation that is to be repealed, until the instrument either expires or ceases to have effect in some other way, for

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