Environmental Law

DEHP has a new enforcement power - enforceable undertakings

Important amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) (EP Act), made by the Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014 (Qld) (EPTLA Act) as part of the Newman Government’s ‘Greentape Reduction Project’, came into force on 30 September 2015.

One of those changes is the introduction of a new way in which the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) can seek to enforce the EP Act – by entry into an ‘enforceable undertaking’.

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