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 616D]

                 (c)   the condition about financial assurance imposed under
                       section 616I.

616D Changing conditions of transitional authority (SAA)
           (1)   Subsection (2) applies for changing a condition of a
                 transitional authority (SAA).
           (2)   Subject to subsection (3), the special agreement Act to which
                 the transitional authority (SAA) relates and the existing Act
                 continue to apply for changing the condition of the authority
                 as if the amending Act, other than for the insertion of section
                 584, had not been enacted.
                 Note—
                   See also the Mineral Resources Act, section 735(3) and (4).
           (3)   Subsection (2)—
                 (a)   does not apply for making or deciding an application
                       under section 616H(1)(b) to amend the authority; and
                 (b)   does not limit subdivision 6; and
                 (c)   stops applying if the authority is amended under
                       subdivision 6 and the amended authority has taken
                       effect under the current Act.


Subdivision 3                 Unfinished applications

616E Procedure for unfinished applications
           (1)   This section applies if—
                 (a)   before the commencement, a person applied under the
                       existing Act for, or in relation to, an SAA environmental
                       authority (mining) for a mining lease provided for under
                       a special agreement Act; and
                 (b)   the application has not been decided.
           (2)   Subject to subsections (3) to (7)—
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