This paper provides a brief overview of the opportunities to improve how Environment
Effect Statements (EES) are prepared for agricultural land. The Environment Effects Act governs the preparation of EES Statements. The Act itself is from 1978 and uses a very broad meaning of the term ‘environment’.
The Act is brief and authorises the preparation of guideline(s) to determine how the
objectives of the Act will be delivered. Section 10 of the Act establishes the ability to have
guidelines. At Section 10(2) it allows guidelines to set out different procedures for different
kinds of works or use any matter or standards published by an authority or body