Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 16

(1) Material environmental harm is environmental harm (other than environmental nuisance)—

(a) that is not trivial or negligible in nature, extent or context; or

(b) that causes actual or potential loss or damage to property of an amount of, or amounts totalling, more than the threshold amount but less than the maximum amount; or

(c) that results in costs of more than the threshold amount but less than the maximum amount being incurred in taking appropriate action to—

(i) prevent or minimise the harm; and

(ii) rehabilitate or restore the environment to its condition before the harm.

(2) In this section—

maximum amount means the threshold amount for serious environmental harm.

threshold amount means $5000 or, if a greater amount is prescribed by regulation, the greater amount.