MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 13 Savings, transitional and related provisions
Part 7 Transitional provisions for Environmental Protection and Other Legislation
Amendment Act 2004
[s 638]

638        Re-issuing of environmental authorities if they do not
           form a single mining or petroleum project
          (1)   The administering authority may, at any time after the
                commencement, decide whether the constituent parts together
                form a single mining or petroleum project.
          (2)   If the administering authority decides the constituent parts are
                for different mining or petroleum projects, it may—
                (a)   cancel the constituent              parts    as    environmental
                      authorities; and
                (b)   issue to the former holder of the cancelled constituent
                      parts new environmental authorities (mining activities)
                      or environmental authorities (petroleum activities) for
                      each of the different mining or petroleum projects.
          (3)   The conditions of each of the new environmental authorities
                must be the conditions of the cancelled constituent parts that
                applied to the mining or petroleum project the subject of the
                new environmental authority, subject to any necessary
                changes.


Subdivision 3                 Other provisions

639        Environmental authorities under old chapter 4A
          (1)   A licence, other than a provisional licence, under old chapter
                4A in force immediately before the commencement is, on the
                commencement, taken to be a non-code compliant authority
                under new chapter 4A for a level 1 petroleum activity.
          (2)   On the commencement, a provisional licence under old
                chapter 4A ceases to be an environmental authority.
          (3)   A level 2 approval under old chapter 4A in force immediately
                before the commencement is, on the commencement, taken to
                be a non-code compliant authority under new chapter 4A, for
                a level 2 petroleum activity.


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