Legislation

Relevance

Provisions

Marine Parks Act 1982

 

Provides for the setting apart of tidal lands and tidal waters as marine park

Environmental Protection Act 1994

Control of threatening processes (pollution etc.)

Replaced the Clean Air, Clean Waters, Noise Abatement, Litter, Contaminated Land and State Environment Acts.

There is also A strategy for the conservation and management of Queensland wetlands (including mangroves, saline coastal flats etc.) (QLD EPA 1999)[210].


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