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 707A]

              (a)    the activity is prescribed for the first time as an
                     environmentally relevant activity under section 19 (the
                     relevant change); and
              (b)    the activity was carried out at the premises before the
                     relevant change; and
              (c)    the activity continues to be carried out at the premises
                     after the relevant change.
        (2)   Section 426 does not apply to the person in carrying out the
              activity at the premises until 1 year after the relevant change.

707A Eligibility criteria and standard conditions for particular
     environmentally relevant activities
        (1)   This section applies for an environmentally relevant activity
              if, immediately before the commencement, the activity would
              have constituted either of the following and would have been
              subject to a code of environmental compliance under the
              unamended Act—
              (a)    a chapter 4 activity, or aspects of a chapter 4 activity;
              (b)    a mining activity.
        (2)   From the commencement—
              (a)    the matters identified as eligibility criteria in the code of
                     environmental compliance are taken to be the eligibility
                     criteria for the environmentally relevant activity until
                     new eligibility criteria for the activity take effect under
                     section 318(3); and
              (b)    standard environmental conditions of the code of
                     environmental compliance are taken to be the standard
                     conditions for the environmentally relevant activity until
                     new standard conditions for the activity take effect
                     under section 318D(5).




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