MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 8 General environmental offences
Part 1 Offences relating to environmentally relevant activities

[s 427]

                (b)    a small scale mining activity; or
                (c)    a geothermal activity that, under the Geothermal Act,
                       is—
                       (i)    geothermal exploration for exempt heat pump
                              production or to evaluate the feasibility of exempt
                              heat pump production; or
                       (ii) exempt heat pump production; or
                       (iii) other geothermal production that, under the
                             Geothermal Act, is not of a large-scale.
          (3)   Also, subsection (1) does not apply to the
                Coordinator-General, or another person acting on behalf of
                the Coordinator-General, in performing the functions or
                exercising the powers of the Coordinator-General under the
                State Development Act.

427        Offence to operate under environmental authority if not a
           registered suitable operator in particular circumstances
                The holder of an environmental authority must not carry out
                an environmentally relevant activity if the person—
                (a)    has become the holder of the authority under a
                       non-assessable transfer under resource legislation; and
                (b)    is not a registered suitable operator.
                Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.


Division 2                     Exemptions

429        Special provisions for interstate transporters of
           controlled waste
          (1)   If a person is carrying out the interstate transportation of
                controlled waste, section 426 does not apply to the person if—



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