MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 5 Environmental authorities and environmentally relevant activities
Part 4 Notification stage

[s 151]

          (3)   However, a properly made submission about the EIS is taken
                to be a properly made submission about the application.

151        When notification stage can start
                The applicant may start the notification stage as soon as the
                application stage ends for the application.


Division 2                    Public notice

152        Public notice of application
          (1)   The applicant must give and publish a notice about the
                application (the application notice).
          (2)   The application notice must be given and published—
                (a)   simultaneously or together with, and in the same way as,
                      any public notice for an application under resource
                      legislation for a relevant tenure for the application; or
                (b)   if public notice is not required to be given for an
                      application under resource legislation for a relevant
                      tenure for the application—
                      (i)    in a newspaper circulating generally in the area
                             where the relevant resource activity is proposed to
                             be carried out; and
                      (ii) before the day that is 10 business days after the end
                           of the information stage for the application; or
                (c)   in another way prescribed under a regulation.
          (3)   The administering authority may decide an additional or
                substituted way to give or publish the application notice if it
                gives the applicant an information notice about the decision
                before the application notice is given.
          (4)   This section is subject to section 159.



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