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 616Q]

        (2)   Sections 211 to 215, 216(1)(a), 217(1)(c), 219(4)(c) and
              219(5)(a) do not apply for the application.
        (3)   For applying sections 216(1), 217(1)(b) and 218(1) a
              reference to an entity, each entity or the entity is taken to be a
              reference to the applicant.
        (4)   For applying section 219(5)(b), the reference to each objector
              is taken to be a reference to the applicant.
        (5)   The objection period for the application starts on the day the
              administering authority gives the applicant a draft
              environmental authority and ends 20 business days after that
              day.
        (6)   Subsections (7) and (8) apply for processing the application
              if—
              (a)    no part of the application relates to a wild river area; and
              (b)    an EIS is not required for the application under section
                     162(3A).
        (7)   The administering authority is taken to have decided under
              section 162(1) that no EIS is required for the application.
        (8)   Section 163 does not apply for the application.

616Q Reference to State government agreement includes
     particular rights
        (1)   Subsection (2) applies to the administering authority for
              considering the standard criteria in making a decision under
              section 207 to refuse the new authority application or allow it
              to proceed.
      (1A) If there is a current objection relating to the new authority
           application, subsection (2) also applies to the Land Court for
           considering the standard criteria under section 223 in making
           the objections decision for the application.
        (2)   The reference to a state government agreement in schedule 4,
              definition standard criteria, paragraph (c) includes a
              reference to—
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