MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 13 Savings, transitional and related provisions
Part 18 Transitional provisions for Environmental Protection (Greentape Reduction) and
Other Legislation Amendment Act 2012
[s 678]

                      (i)   the development conditions of the permit become
                            an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA;
                            and
                      (ii) the development conditions of the permit become
                           conditions of the environmental authority; and
                (c)   the holder of the registration certificate for the activity
                      the subject of the permit becomes the holder of the
                      environmental authority.
          (3)   The environmental authority is taken to have had effect on the
                day the development permit had effect under the Planning
                Act.
          (4)   The anniversary day for the environmental authority is the
                same as the anniversary day that applied to the registration
                certificate immediately before the commencement.

678        Existing development application for chapter 4
           activity
          (1)   This section applies for a development application for a
                chapter 4 activity made, but not decided, before the
                commencement.
          (2)   From the commencement—
                (a)   section 115 does not apply to the application; and
                (b)   former chapter 4, part 1 continues to apply to the
                      application as if the amending Act had not been enacted.

678A Application to convert particular existing conditions into
     environmental authority
          (1)   Subsection (2) applies if—
                (a)   immediately before the commencement, a development
                      permit for a chapter 4 activity is in effect, but no
                      registration certificate for the activity was issued; or
                (b)   after the commencement, a development permit for a
                      chapter 4 activity comes into effect under section 678.
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