MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 5 Environmental authorities and environmentally relevant activities
Part 7 Amendment of environmental authorities by application

[s 235]

235        Criteria for deciding amendment application
                Despite section 176(2)(b), the matters mentioned in section
                176(2)(b) may only be considered to the extent they relate to
                the proposed amendment.

236        Changing amendment application
                Before the amendment application is decided, the applicant
                may change the application by giving the administering
                authority—
                (a)   written notice of the change; and
                (b)   the fee prescribed under a regulation.

237        Effect on assessment of amendment
           application—minor change
          (1)   The assessment of a changed amendment application under
                parts 3 to 5, as applied under section 232(1), does not stop
                if—
                (a)   the change is a minor change of the application; or
                (b)   the administering authority gives its written agreement
                      to the change.
          (2)   For the changed application, the notification stage does not
                again apply, and is not required to restart, if—
                (a)   the notification stage applied to the original amendment
                      application; and
                (b)   the change was made during the notification stage or
                      after the notification stage ended.

238        Effect on assessment of amendment
           application—other changes
          (1)   Subsections (2) to (5) apply to a changed amendment
                application if—
                (a)   the change is not a minor change; and
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