MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 12 Miscellaneous
Part 2 General provisions about applications and submissions

[s 553]

                (b)   is taken to have been effected at the time at which the
                      letter is posted.
          (2)   Subsection (1) applies whether the expression ‘deliver’,
                ‘give’, ‘notify’, ‘send’ or ‘serve’ or another expression is
                used.

553        Electronic applications and submissions
          (1)   This section applies if—
                (a)   this Act requires an application or submission to be
                      made in an approved form; and
                (b)   the form provides that the application or submission
                      may be made at a stated email address.
          (2)   The application or submission may be made by electronically
                transmitting to the email address the information required by
                the approved form in a format substantially similar to the
                approved form.

554        Electronic notices about applications and submissions
          (1)   This section applies if an application or submission has been
                made in an approved form, whether or not it has been made
                under section 553.
          (2)   A notice from the applicant to the administering authority
                about the application or submission may be given by
                electronically transmitting it to any email address for service
                for the authority stated in the approved form.
          (3)   A notice from the authority or anyone else to the applicant
                about the application or submission may be given by
                electronically transmitting it to any email address for service
                for the applicant stated in the application.
          (4)   In this section—
                applicant, for a TEP submission, means the person or public
                authority that made the submission.


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