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 702]

        (5)   This section does not apply if a conversion application is
              made for the environmental authority under section 695.
        (6)   In this section—
              environmental management plan means an environmental
              management plan under the unamended Act, schedule 4.
              old authority means any of the following under the
              unamended Act—
              (a)    an environmental authority (exploration);
              (b)    an environmental authority (mineral development);
              (c)    an environmental authority (mining lease);
              (d)    an environmental authority (prospecting);
              (e)    an environmental authority (mining claim);
              (f)    an environmental authority (chapter 5A activities).


Division 9                   Provisions about plans of
                             operations

702      Existing plan of operations
        (1)   This section applies for a plan of operations for an
              environmental authority (mining lease) submitted, or taken to
              have been submitted, to the administering authority under
              former section 233 before the commencement.
        (2)   On the commencement, the plan of operations becomes a plan
              of operations under section 287.
        (3)   The plan of operations is taken to have been submitted on the
              day it was submitted under the unamended Act.




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