Environment (Amendment) Act No. 49 of 2015
Made 2016-11-23 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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- Language
- English
- Kind
- Act
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Subjects
- Sea, Water
- Keywords
- water resources management, inland waters, groundwater, surface water, deep sea bed, sovereignty
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No.49of 2015. Environment (Amendment) Act 2015. Certified on: 2 3 NOV ?~1f No.4lt of 2015. Environment (Amendment) Act 2015. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 2). No. of 2015. AN ACT entitled Environment (Amendment) Act 2015, Being an Act to amend the Environment Act 2000, MADE by the National Parliament. INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 2). Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting the definition of "water" and replacing it with the following new definition: ""water" means internal waters, including any river, stream, watercourse, reservoir, well, bore, tank, dam, canal, channel, lake, lagoon, swamp, open drain, surface and underground water and other waters over which Papua New Guinea exercises or claims jurisdiction or sovereign rights and includes the seabed and subsoil underlying those waters;". I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Environment (Amendment) Act 2015 which has been made by the National Parliament. l the National Parliament. \ 2 3 NOV 2Ulb I \' I hereby certify that the Environment (Amendment) Act 2015 wks made by the National Parliament on 3 June, 2015. \i\ /,-..... \ l J,/ · J·1•,1 I \., •. Acting Spe~-r:12ortaf ;}rfiaqi~nt. ,/ \ ,; \ \, ',... ,. ,.,<"•