MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 7 Environmental management
Part 2 Environmental evaluations

[s 325]

325        Failure to comply with audit notice
                A person to whom an audit notice has been given must
                comply with the notice unless the person has a reasonable
                excuse.
                Note—
                  See also section 574A (Who may perform auditor’s functions).
                Maximum penalty—300 penalty units.


Subdivision 2                Audits by administering authority

326        Administering authority may conduct environmental
           audit for resource activities
          (1)   The administering authority may decide to—
                (a)   conduct or commission an environmental audit about a
                      stated matter concerning an environmental authority for
                      a resource activity; or
                (b)   prepare an environmental report about the audit.
          (2)   However, the authority may make a decision under subsection
                (1) only if it is reasonably satisfied the audit or report is
                necessary or desirable.
          (3)   If the authority makes a decision under subsection (1), it must
                give the environmental authority holder an information notice
                about the decision.
          (4)   The authority must, within 10 business days after preparing an
                environmental report about the audit, give the environmental
                authority holder a copy of it.

326A Administering authority’s costs of environmental audit or
     report
          (1)   This section applies if the administering authority has, under
                section 326, incurred costs in conducting or commissioning an


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