Snowy Mountains Cloud Seeding Act 2004 (NSW)

Snowy Mountains Cloud Seeding Act 2004 No 19

An Act to facilitate cloud seeding operations in the Snowy Mountains area; and for related purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act is the Snowy Mountains Cloud Seeding Act 2004.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

3 Definitions (1) In this Act: approved EMP means an environmental management plan approved by the relevant Ministers under section 5 and for which the approval is in force. approved method, in relation to the discharge of a seeding agent or tracing agent, means a method specified as an approved method in, or approved in accordance with, section 4C. approved seeding agent means a thing specified as an approved seeding agent in, or approved in accordance with, section 4A. approved tracing agent means a thing specified as an approved tracing agent in, or approved in accordance with, section 4B. authorised cloud seeding operations means the operations authorised to be carried out by section 4. environmental management plan or EMP—see section 5. EPA means the Environment Protection Authority constituted by the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991. function includes power, authority or duty and exercise a function includes perform a duty. public land means: (a) national park estate within the meaning of the National Park Estate (Southern Region Reservations) Act 2000, and (b) community land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993. relevant Ministers means: (a) the Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, and (b) the Minister administering Part 4 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. Snowy water catchment has the same meaning as it has in the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997. (2) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.