Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Noise Control
30. Director-General to have regard to certain provisions
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Director-General
“Director-General” means the Director‑General of Environmental Protection appointed under section 3(1);
to the relevant provisions of any code of practice published or mentioned in the regulations;
before specifying any particular methods or plant or machinery, to the desirability in the interests of any recipient of the notice in question of specifying other methods or plant or machinery which would be substantially as effective in minimising noise and would be more acceptable to that recipient; or
to the need to protect any person in the locality in which the premises or work place in question are situated from the effects of noise.
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained under statutory authority or not;