The Environment Protection Act 1993 (SA) requires EPA licencing for waste depots, rubbish tips, recycling operations and waste transporters. As well as those actively engaged in the waste management business, EPA licences are also required by those operations which generate certain types of waste ...

The Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 (Cth) covers the global environmental problem of the thinning of the ozone layer caused by the use of various human-made chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons. This Commonwealth law gives effect to Australia's international ...

Under the Environment Protection Act 1993 (SA), the sections relating to the protection of the environment (such as the General Environmental Duty [s 25] or the offence provisions) apply equally to air, water, noise or other types of pollution. The Act also ...

Air pollution from industrial (i.e. non-residential) sources is regulated under the policy through the setting of maximum pollution levels for various types of air pollutants including particulate matter, heavy metals, oxides of nitrogen and sulphur and carbon monoxide. Any occupier ...

Under the Environment Protection Act 1993 (SA) the definition of "pollution" includes noise pollution. This means that a person producing excessive noise could be in breach of the general environment duty under section 25. This could result in the issue of an ...

The Environment Protection Act 1993 (SA) is the main State legislation covering pollution and waste. The Act creates an Environment Protection Authority (EPA) - a statutory authority responsible for all aspects of pollution and waste. The EPA is run by a Board appointed by the State ...

For many years there were no relevant laws leaving responsibility up to the individual. This meant that governments were reliant, and certainly to some degree still are reliant, on voluntary changes in behaviour as well as a number of education ...

In recent decades, international law has also become more relevant to the environment. Most nations (including Australia) have entered into various treaties, conventions and protocols (agreements) - usually under the auspices of the United Nations. Many of these international agreements ...

The environmental responsibilities of local councils are set out in the Local Government Act 1999 (SA), as well as other legislation dealing with public and environmental health, development, dogs and cats, drainage and so on. Since local councils are created by State legislation, it ...

The Commonwealth Constitution sets out the responsibilities of the Commonwealth and State Governments. Included in the Constitution are lists of exclusive and concurrent powers [see ss 51 and 52]. Where there is no specific mention in the Constitution of a particular power, ...