Site Contamination Auditors - Exemption from Automatic Mutual Recognition

1 Name

This instrument is the Automatic Mutual Recognition (South Australia) (Exemption—Site Contamination Auditors) Declaration 2022.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2022	1 July 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 42S of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

4 Simplified outline of this instrument

The purpose of this instrument is to exempt registrations for occupations, or for activities covered by occupations, from the automatic deemed registration provisions of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

This instrument has effect only in relation to South Australia.

Unless revoked earlier, this instrument will sunset under section 50 of the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth, subject to subsection 42S(6) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth. This will generally mean that this instrument will be repealed on 1 October 2027.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

6 Exemptions

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a) of the Act, a registration in column 1 of the table in subsection (3) of this section is excluded from the operation of automatic deemed registration in South Australia.

(2) For the purposes of subsection 42S(2) of the Act, column 2 of the table in subsection (3) of this section sets out a statement of the risk to consumer protection, the environment, animal welfare or the health or safety of workers or the public in relation to each registration in column 1.

(3) The table is as follows:

Exemptions for the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a)
1	Site Contamination Auditor established under Part 10A, Division 4 of the Environment Protection Act 1993 (South Australia)	Potential for exposure of the public and the environment to significant chemical contamination creating a significant risk to the environment and the health and safety of the public.

Exemptions for the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a)

Item

Column 1

Registration

Column 2

Statement of risk

Site Contamination Auditor established under Part 10A, Division 4 of the Environment Protection Act 1993 (South Australia)

Potential for exposure of the public and the environment to significant chemical contamination creating a significant risk to the environment and the health and safety of the public.