N.S.W. CLEAN WATER ACT
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright! SYDNEY, Nov. 6 Drastic new regulations (providing for a maximum pen- - Salty of $10,006 for pollution of waterways have come I into effect in New South Wales. | The regulations, which i Government officials describe 'as the most comprehensive iyet devised anywhere in the | world, are contained in the I Clean Waters Act, 1970. . There will be an immediate (prohibition on the unauthorised dumping of pollutants offshore, within the state ' jurisdiction of the three-mile limit, and unauthorised discharge from the shore. The new act provides for (penalties up to $lO,OOO for a (single water pollution ’(offence, with extra penalties .of up to $5OOO for each day Jon which the offence con-
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33067, 7 November 1972, Page 34
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