Overview and Background

Part 2 – Environment

Chapter 2 – Environmental governance
Interpretation of Chapter 2
Section 43 - Meaning of “failing to comply with environmental law”

163.Section 43 defines the references to a public authority “failing to comply with environmental law” for the purposes of this Chapter. They are references to a public authority failing to comply with environmental law in any of the following ways: by failing to take proper account of environmental law when carrying out its functions; by carrying out its functions in a way that is contrary to, or incompatible with, environmental law, or by omitting to carry out its functions where the omission is contrary to, or incompatible with, environmental law.