MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                 Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                                         Chapter 12 Miscellaneous
                                                                Part 5 Regulations

                                                                           [s 581]

              relation to its functions under the Planning Act, as assessment
              manager or concurrence agency, including, for example—
              (a)    application fees for development applications; and
              (b)    fees for monitoring compliance with development
                     conditions on a development approval.
        (5)   A regulation may be made to give effect to, and enforce
              compliance with, a national environment protection measure
              made under the national scheme laws.
        (6)   A regulation may be made—
              (a)    creating offences against the regulation; and
              (b)    fixing a maximum penalty of a fine of 165 penalty units
                     for an offence against the regulation.

581      Integrated development approval system regulations and
         guidelines
        (1)   This section applies if the administering authority delegates
              the authority’s powers under this Act to a local government.
        (2)   A regulation may make provision about, or empower the
              administering authority to make guidelines about—
              (a)    the policy objectives and criteria to which the local
                     government must have regard; and
              (b)    the way in which the local government must exercise a
                     delegated power, including, for example, time limits for
                     the making of decisions; and
              (c)    appeals from the local government’s decisions; and
              (d)    the cases involving the exercise of a delegated power
                     that must be referred to the administering authority or
                     someone else for decision, including the criteria to be
                     applied in deciding whether a particular case must be
                     referred; and
              (e)    the conditions to which an authority issued by the
                     delegate must be subject; and
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