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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2007-10-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Bills</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Environment Protection (Site Contamination) Amendment Bill</name>
      <text id="200710239458a242927a44ada0000507">
        <heading>ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (SITE CONTAMINATION) AMENDMENT BILL</heading>
      </text>
      <subproceeding>
        <name>Final Stages</name>
        <text id="200710239458a242927a44ada0000508">
          <heading>Final Stages</heading>
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        <text id="200710239458a242927a44ada0000509">The House of Assembly agreed to the bill with the amendment indicated by the following schedule, to which amendment the House of Assembly desires the concurrence of the Legislative Council:</text>
        <text id="200710239458a242927a44ada0000510">
          <inserted>No. 1. Page 5, lines 28 to 37—Delete subsection (1) and substitute:</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>(1)&amp;#x9;For the purposes of this Act, site contamination exists at a site if—</inserted>
        </text>
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            <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;chemical substances are present on or below the surface of the site in concentrations above the background concentrations (if any); and</inserted>
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        </text>
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            <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;the chemical substances have, at least in part, come to be present there as a result of an activity at the site or elsewhere; and</inserted>
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        </text>
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            <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;the presence of the chemical substances in those concentrations has resulted in—</inserted>
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            <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;actual or potential harm to the health or safety of human beings that is not trivial, taking into account current or proposed land uses; or</inserted>
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            <inserted>(ii)&amp;#x9;actual or potential harm to water that is not trivial; or</inserted>
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        <text id="200710239458a242927a44ada0000517">
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            <inserted>(iii)&amp;#x9;other actual or potential environmental harm that is not trivial, taking into account current or proposed land uses.</inserted>
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