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 684]

              (a)    processing of the application and all matters incidental
                     to the processing must proceed as if the amending Act
                     had not been enacted; and
              (b)    an environmental authority granted, amended or
                     transferred is taken to be an environmental authority to
                     which section 682 applies.

684      Existing progressive certification
        (1)   This section applies if the administering authority has, under
              former chapter 5, part 9A given a progressive certification for
              a particular area within a relevant mining tenement for a level
              1 mining project.
        (2)   From the commencement—
              (a)    the certification becomes a progressive certification for
                     the mining tenure for chapter 5A, part 6; and
              (b)    the area the subject of the progressive certification is a
                     certified rehabilitated area for the mining tenure for
                     chapter 5A, part 6.
        (3)   In this section—
              level 1 mining project means a level 1 mining project under
              former section 151(1).

685      Existing application for progressive certification
        (1)   This section applies if an application for progressive
              certification is made, but not decided, under former chapter 5,
              part 9A before the commencement.
        (2)   From the commencement—
              (a)    the application becomes a progressive certification
                     application under section 318ZC; and
              (b)    chapter 5A, part 6 applies to the application.



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