MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                       Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                  Chapter 13 Savings, transitional and related provisions
                         Part 16 Transitional provisions for Geothermal Energy Act 2010

                                                                                   [s 663]

        (2)   Even if the authority holder does not give a revised (CSG) EM
              plan within 1 year after the commencement day, the obligation
              under subsection (1) continues until—
              (a)    the holder gives the administering authority a revised
                     (CSG) EM plan; or
              (b)    a CSG amendment is made to the existing CSG
                     authority.
                     Note—
                        Under section 312E(1) the administering authority may amend
                        an environmental authority (chapter 5A activities) if it considers
                        the amendment is necessary or desirable because of a matter
                        mentioned in section 312E(2), including (under section
                        312E(2)(a)) a contravention of this Act by the holder.


663      First annual return for existing CSG authority
              Section 316A does not apply to the first annual return that the
              holder of an existing CSG authority is required to lodge after
              the commencement day unless the holder has given the
              administering authority a revised (CSG) EM plan for the
              existing CSG authority.




Part 16                      Transitional provisions for
                             Geothermal Energy Act 2010

664      Deferral of requirement for environmental authority
         for existing authorised geothermal activities
        (1)   This section applies if—
              (a)    immediately before the commencement of this section, a
                     geothermal activity was authorised to be carried out
                     under the repealed Geothermal Exploration Act 2004;
                     and


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