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Environment Protection Reform Act 2025

Compilation #0 | Effective 2025-12-01

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1 Short title

This Act is the Environment Protection Reform Act 2025.

2 Commencement

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

Providing different days on which amendments are to apply

The Minister may, by notifiable instrument, provide that the amendment made by a provision covered by table item 2 applies, in relation to different matters or things, on and after different days for one or more of those matters or things.

Part 3 of Schedule 1 (application and transitional provisions), or any rules made under item 715 of that Schedule, as it applies in relation to an amendment, does not limit a notifiable instrument made for the purposes of subsection (2) in relation to the amendment.

To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (2) to an amendment includes the insertion of a new provision or the repeal of a provision.

Note: An amendment might have an application provision in Part 3 of Schedule 1 as well as in a notifiable instrument.

Example: An item in a Schedule to this Act inserts a new section into the principal Act that covers 2 matters, one of which is to begin on Royal Assent and one of which is to begin on a later day. That new section applies in relation to the matter that is to begin on Royal Assent from that day, and in relation to the other matter, from the day that other matter is to begin.

For the purposes of the application provision for the new section in commencement day in item 675 of that Schedule).Part 3 of Schedule 1, the day that is the commencement day for the new section will vary depending on the matter (see the definition of

Date/details information in column 3

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.