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Environment (Amendment) Act 2015

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Environment (Amendment) Act 2015.

No. 49 of 2015.

Certified on: 23 NOV 2016

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.

Interpretation (Amendment of Section 2).

No.49 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;".

1 hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Environment (Amendment) Act 2015 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Acting Clerk of the National Parliament. 23 NOV 2016

I hereby certify that the Environment (Amendment) Act 2015 was made by the National Parliament on 3 June, 2015.
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Acting Speaker of the National Parliament. 23 NOV 2016