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EIA Ordinance
PART IX MISCELLANEOUS
- Exemptions
- The Chief Executive in Council may, in the public interest, exempt a
project from the provisions of this Ordinance by an order published
in the Gazette.
- The Chief Executive in Council may make the order---
- subject to conditions and limitations;
- have effect for a period of time; and
- be partial in operation with respect to the project or to
specified provisions of this Ordinance.
- A person who breaches a condition or requirement imposed under
an exemption order is deemed to have breached an environmental permit
and is subject to the provisions of this Ordinance that apply to
the breach of an environmental permit.
(Amended 34 of 2000 s. 3)
- Protection of Government and public officers
- A public officer is not personally liable for an act or omission
of his if he did it in the honest belief that the act or omission
was required or authorized to discharge his functions under this
Ordinance.
- The protection given to a public officer by subsection (1) for
an act or omission does not in any way affect any liability of the
Government in tort for the act or omission.
- Regulations
- The Secretary may, after consultation with the Advisory Council
on the Environment, by regulation---
- prescribe anything required or permitted to be prescribed
under this Ordinance;
- prescribe the minimum qualifications and experience of persons
undertaking environmental impact assessment studies;
- regulate appeals under Part VI and the practice and procedure
of the Appeal Board;
- generally, provide for the better carrying into effect of
the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.
- A regulation for the payment of fees may provide for different
fees to be charged according to different circumstances.
- Power of Director to set forms
- The Director may set the form of a document required under this
Ordinance.
- The Director's power under subsection (1) is subject to any express
requirement under this Ordinance for a form to comply with the requirement.
- The Director may include in a form a statutory declaration to
be made by the person completing the form confirming that the particulars
contained in the form are correct to the best of the person's knowledge.
- Service of notices
A notice to be served under this Ordinance may be served
by registered post or by serving a copy personally.
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