Environmental Protection (Amendment) Act, 2009 (No. 5 of 2009).

This Act amends the Environmental Protection Act in respect of a wide variety matters including: environmental control and management of the petroleum industry; the protection of the Belize Barrier Reef System; the environmental management fund; inspections of all establishments which manufacture, produce as by-products, import, export, store, sell, distribute or use any substances that are likely to have a significant impact on the environment, to ensure that the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder are complied with; out-of-court settlement of an offence under this Act; and the issuance of Violation Tickets for pollution offences. There shall be established an Environmental Management Fund. The objects of the Fund shall be to assist the Department, to, among other things: (a) to cover all costs associated with the response Fund and clean-up of oil spills and other chemicals spills; (b) to carry out programmes to prevent and reduce pollution; (c) to provide support for laboratory analysis of samples collected for environmental monitoring; (d) to support its environmental monitoring and enforcement programmes; (e) to promote environmental public awareness and research; (f) to encourage local environmental initiatives.

An Act to amend the Environmental Protection Act, Chapter 328 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000-2003, to provide for greater environmental control and management of the petroleum industry; to make improved provisions for the protection of the Belize Barrier Reef System; to establish an environmental management fund; to provide for out of- court settlement in appropriate cases; to provide for the issue of violation tickets for pollution offences; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Amendments made by this Act are already incorporated in the consolidated version of the principal Act.