MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                       Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                    Chapter 13 Savings, transitional and related provisions
         Part 2 Transitional provisions for Environmental Protection and Other Legislation
                                                                     Amendment Act 2000
                                                                                    [s 592]

              (a)    before the commencement day, a person applied for a
                     mining tenement; and
              (b)    the mining tenement has not been granted; and
              (c)    an environmental authority application in relation to the
                     mining tenement is not an application to which, under
                     section 590(1), the existing Act applies.
        (2)   The environmental authority application is taken to have been
              made on the commencement day.
        (3)   Chapter 5 applies to the application.
        (4)   However, the following do not apply—
              (a)    a time requirement under that chapter for the
                     administering authority to—
                     (i)    make an assessment level decision; or
                     (ii) take a step for deciding the application; or
                     (iii) decide the application or make a decision about the
                           application;
              (b)    sections 169 and 182.


Division 4                   Transitional authorities for mining
                             activities

Subdivision 1                Preliminary

592      Meaning of transitional authority for div 4
        (1)   For this division, a transitional authority means—
              (a)    an existing environmental authority that, under section
                     586 or 586A is taken to be an environmental authority
                     (mining activities); or
              (b)    a new environmental authority (mining activities) that,
                     under section 588, is taken to be held by a person; or
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