Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Act 2023 (Cth)

Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Act 2023

No. 99, 2023

An Act to amend the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedules Schedule 1—Amendments Part 1—Export of carbon dioxide streams Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981 Part 2—Placement of wastes or other matter into the sea for marine geoengineering activities Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981

Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Act 2023 No. 99, 2023

An Act to amend the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981, and for related purposes

[Assented to 27 November 2023]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act is the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Act 2023.

2 Commencement (1) 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.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 27 November 2023 2. Schedule 1, Part 1 The later of: (a) the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent; and (b) the day on which Australia deposits a declaration on provisional application of the 2009 amendment to Article 6 of the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, in accordance with Resolution LP.5(14) adopted on 11 October 2019 by the Contracting Parties to the Protocol. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. The Minister must announce, by notifiable instrument, the day on which Australia deposits a declaration on provisional application of that amendment. 3. Schedule 1, Part 2 The later of: (a) the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent; and (b) the day on which the amendments to the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, being the amendments set out in the Annex to Resolution LP.4(8) adopted on 18 October 2013 by the Contracting Parties to the Protocol, enter into force for Australia. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. The Minister must announce, by notifiable instrument, the day on which those amendments enter into force for Australia.