A draft guideline for the new 'chain of responsibility'
laws has been released?
The Queensland Government has released a draft statutory
guideline for the Environmental Protection (Chain of
Responsibility) Amendment Act 2016 for public comment. The
guideline is aimed at providing instructions and transparency about
the issuing of Environmental Protection Orders
(EPOs) under the new 'chain of
responsibility' laws which came into effect on 27 April
2016.
In particular, the new laws allow an EPO to be issued to a
'related person' of a company, being a person with a
relevant connection to a company and the environmental breaches
alleged. This requires the regulatory body to consider corporate
structures, individuals within a company and others such as
administrators or receivers who exercise control over a company to
determine who an EPO should be issued to. The draft guideline
provides
