MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                         Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                     Chapter 13 Savings, transitional and related provisions
      Part 17 Transitional provisions for the Environmental Protection and Other Legislation
                                                                       Amendment Act 2011
                                                                                     [s 672]

          (2)   The administering authority must consider, or continue to
                consider, the draft transitional environment program and
                decide whether to approve it under the unamended Act.
          (3)   For subsection (2), the unamended Act continues in effect as
                if it had not been amended by the amending Act.

672       Transitional environmental programs
                A transitional environmental program in force at the
                commencement, or approved under the unamended Act as
                applied by section 671, continues in effect even if it does not
                comply with section 331 as in force immediately after the
                commencement.

673       Existing application for disclosure exemption
          (1)   This section applies to an application for a disclosure
                exemption made under section 564 of the unamended Act
                before the commencement that has not been decided at the
                commencement.
          (2)   At the commencement, the application is taken to have been
                withdrawn.

674       Existing reviews and appeals about disclosure
          exemptions
          (1)   Subsection (2) applies to an application for a review of an
                original decision mentioned in schedule 2, part 1, division 5 of
                the unamended Act that—
                (a)    was made under section 521 before the commencement;
                       and
                (b)    has not been decided at the commencement.
          (2)   At the commencement, the application is taken to have been
                withdrawn.



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