Environmental Quality (Compounding of Offences) (Open Burning) Rules2000Environmental Quality (Compounding of Offences) (OpenBurning) Rules 2000PU(A) 310/2000In exercise of the powersconferred by subsection 45(1) and section 51 of the Environmental Quality Act1974 [Act 127], the Minister makes the following rules: 1. Citationand commencement.(1)These rules may be cited as the Environmental Quality (Compounding of Offences)(Open Burning) Rules 2000. (2)These Rules come into operation on 21August 2000. 2. Compoundableoffence.Anyoffence of open burning under section 29a or 29b of the Environmental QualityAct 1974 is a compoundable offence.