Environmental Protection (Extractive Activities) Amendment Regulation 2025

1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Extractive Activities) Amendment Regulation 2025.

2Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Environmental Protection Regulation 2019.

3Amendment of sch 2 (Prescribed ERAs and aggregate environmental scores)

(1)Schedule 2, section 16—
insert—

(2A)Also, the relevant activity does not include—

(a)extracting, other than by dredging, a total of 10,000t or less of material, in a year, from an area if—

(i)the material is quarry material extracted by, or for, 1 or more regional local governments; and

(ii)the material is reasonably necessary for each regional local government to perform its responsibilities under the Local Government Act 2009 or Transport Infrastructure Act 1994, chapter 6 in relation to providing roads or infrastructure; and

(iii)the material is the absolute property of the Crown under the Forestry Act 1959; or

Note—

Under the Forestry Act 1959, an authority may be required to get quarry material.

(b)screening material on the site from which it has been extracted in the course of carrying out the extraction mentioned in paragraph (a).

(2)Schedule 2, section 16(4)—
insert—

quarry material see the Forestry Act 1959, schedule 3.

regional local government means a local government other than any of the following local governments—

(a)Brisbane City Council;

(b)Gold Coast City Council;

(c)Ipswich City Council;

(d)Logan City Council;

(e)Moreton Bay City Council;

(f)Noosa Shire Council;

(g)Redland City Council;

(h)Sunshine Coast Regional Council.

(3)Schedule 2, section 16(2A) to (4)—
renumber as schedule 2, section 16(3) to (5).