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 616K]

                 (b)   discharge or release a surety or other obligee, wholly or
                       partly, from an obligation; or
                 (c)   fulfil a condition allowing a person to terminate an
                       instrument or be released, wholly or partly, from an
                       obligation or modify the operation or effect of an
                       instrument or obligation.
           (4)   If the advice or consent of, or giving notice to, a person would
                 be necessary to give effect to the giving of the financial
                 assurance—
                 (a)   the advice is taken to have been obtained; and
                 (b)   the consent or notice is taken to have been given.

616K Plan of operations
           (1)   This section applies if a plan of operations for a relevant
                 mining lease for a transitional authority (SAA) was in force
                 under the Mineral Resources Act immediately before the
                 commencement.
           (2)   The plan of operations—
                 (a)   is taken to be the plan of operations for the authority
                       submitted under section 233; and
                 (b)   continues in force only until the earlier of the
                       following—
                       (i)   the end of the period, stated in the plan, to which
                             the plan applies;
                       (ii) the plan is replaced under section 235.
       (2A) Subsection (2)(a) is subject to subsection (2B) and the
            Mineral Resources Act, section 735(4A).
       (2B) The special agreement Act to which the authority relates and
            the existing Act continue to apply for amending the plan of
            operations as if the amending Act, other than for the insertion
            of section 584, had not been enacted.


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