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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4183 ..

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (8.52): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move together the amendments circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: I move:

Page 2, line 4, clause 3, subclause (1), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclause:

"(1) The objects of this Act are -

(a) to protect and enhance the quality of the Territory environment;

(b) to prevent environmental degradation and adverse risks to human health and the health of ecosystems by promoting pollution prevention, clean production technology, reuse and recycling of materials and waste minimisation programs;

(c) to require persons engaging in polluting activities to make progressive environmental improvements, including reductions of pollution at the source as such improvements become practical through technological and economic development;

(d) to achieve effective integration of environmental, economic and social considerations in decision making processes;

(e) to promote the concept of a shared responsibility for the environment by acknowledging environmental needs in economic and social decision making;

(f) to promote the concept of a shared responsibility for the environment through public education about and public involvement in decisions about protection, restoration and enhancement of the environment;

(g) to promote the principles of ecologically sustainable development;

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